Improve Developer Productivity with SOA 12c by Tshepo Madigage

Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3) bringing a further integration between components and a bunch of new features. Most of them are quite spectacular, but at the same time all are useful. A release to persuade potential buyers and a lot more to please users of the product.

In addition to adding new features supporting emerging industry trends like cloud and mobile, Oracle SOA Suite 12c also provides many new features and enhancements around developer tooling, administration and operations and, of course, performance.

Quick Start Install

The Quick Start install provides the foundation for a single user development environment, which includes all Oracle SOA Suite core components – Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Human Workflow, Oracle Business Rules, Oracle Mediator, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle Technology Adapters, Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, SOA Spring Component and Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. In addition, Oracle JDeveloper is installed with all SOA IDE extensions and an integrated WebLogic Server.

In JDeveloper, the WebLogic Integrated Server is pre-configured with above SOA Suite components runtime and JavaDB (JavaDB is a development database that allows development with SOA Suite without needing RCU)

Templates

“Share and reuse” has always been one of the pillars of a service-oriented architecture. Oracle SOA Suite 12c introduces several new features to boost the ability to share and reuse services and components, while at the same time enabling best practices and improving manageability. The new SOA starter templates provide an easy way to package SOA composites, components or fragments of a BPEL process and distribute them to other departments, partners or customers. This enables the sharing of frequently used patterns and speeds up development for template users. Three types of SOA starter templates are supported:

• Project templates: They include a complete project with all components and resources used and will be used when creating a new project in your SOA application.
• Component templates: A component with all references resources and components. For example, a BPEL process that calls a business rule or adapter can be packaged as component template. The component does not have to be complete and does not have to compile. A component template can be added to an existing project.
  Component templates will be visible in the composite palette if they’re available in the template path, configured in JDev.
• Custom activity templates: A scope in a BPEL process, which may include an invoke/receive from/to a partnerlink, can be packaged as a custom BPEL activity. For example, an assign activity and a call to an adapter. Those custom activities will be available in the BPEL palette.

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SOA & BPM Partner Community

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