Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c – got published

January 22, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001About This Book

  • Learn key principles to model business processes with BPMN and BPEL, and execute them in an SOA environment.
  • Use best practices for composite applications, including service design and human interactions, and apply them in your daily projects.
  • Design, implement, and optimize business processes with real-world examples illustrating all key concepts

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for BPM and SOA architects, analysts, developers, and project managers who are responsible for, or involved in, business process development, modelling, monitoring, or the implementation of composite, process-oriented applications. The principles are relevant for the design of on-premise and cloud solutions. Get the book here. For additional books please visit our SOA Books wiki here.

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Continuous Delivery for Oracle SOA and BPM by Matt Wright

December 12, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The goal of continuous delivery is to help software development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously automating the process of software delivery and reducing the batch size of their work. This allows organizations to rapidly, reliably, and repeatedly deliver software enhancements faster, with less risk and less cost.

Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of automatically building and testing a piece of software; either each time code is committed by a developer or in environments with a large number of small commits, or a long-running build on a regular scheduled basis.

Continuous Delivery (CD) goes a step further to automate the build, packaging, deployment, and regression testing, so that it can be released at any time into production.

Continuous deployment takes this another step further, in that code is automatically deployed into production, rather than when the business decides to release the code. Read the complete article here.

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SOA BPM Useful Links by Raviteja

August 16, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The below are some of the useful links I  refer for Oracle SOA BPM. I will  keep on adding the links regularly and please feel free to share important links via comments and I will add it to the list.
Lets help each other in sharing knowledge and solving issues and deliver an excellent product  for the Humanity 🙂

  1. ADF eCourses : Part1 and  Part2.
  2. SOA basics (Explore the right side of the website for more topics ) : link
  3. Getting Started with BPM: Free Oracle University Video Tutorials : link
  4. Oracle BPM organization unit : here.
  5. Case Management  basics: here .
  6. Case Management A-team basics: Part1, Part2 and Part3.
  7. Case Management A-tem in-depth : Part1, Part2 ,Part3 and Part4
  8. Case Management A-team cases : here.
  9. Case Management A-team Hello World : here .
  10. Official Oracle SOA Suite 11g Samples : here .

Get the complete link list here. Hey you missed the SOA & BPM Partner Community as Nr.1

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Five Tools for Debugging Oracle SOA Suite by Adam Mead

May 25, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Have you ever completed a software project and had nothing go wrong? Neither have I. Projects using Oracle’s SOA Suite are no different than Java projects and you will need to debug issues at some point.

Here are five tools for debugging issues on Oracle SOA Suite:

1. Flow Trace and Audit Trail

If you have an issue with a specific instance, or instances that follow a specific path, both the flow trace of the composite instance and audit trail of the component instances are extremely helpful. Flow traces and audit trails help you pinpoint a location to look in your code. You can look at the location of the error and step back through the flow trace and audit trail from that point to trace back to the cause of the issue.

In most production systems, the domain audit level will be set to Production so the system doesn’t write too many audit records. When the audit level is set to production, you won’t be able to see the payload in mediators or assignment activities – two places likely to have mistakes. The audit level can be changed on each composite individually, so if your domain audit level is set to Production, you can always temporarily change the audit level of your problem composite to Development to help troubleshoot an issue. However, changing the audit level will only have an effect on activities completed after the changes is made.

To change the audit level on a composite:

1. Navigate to Enterprise Manager in a browser

2. In the left panel expand SOA, then soa-infra, then the partition to which your project is deployed, then click on your composite

3. In the main panel, click on Settings… -> Composite Audit Level: Inherit -> Development Read the complete article here.

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Interview Simone Geib, Oracle Director of Product Management, during her visit @AMIS

May 20, 2015 Leave a comment

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Simone Geib is responsible for the SOA Suite 12c release and visited AMIS to share her knowledge with AMIS, its customers and the AMIS SOA community. Lucas Jellema, CTO at AMIS, interviewed her during the AMIS community event. Watch the video here.

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BPM Suite on the Oracle Cloud! Learn more about Java Cloud Service – join our Webcast April 24th 2015

April 23, 2015 Leave a comment

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Join our Webcast on April 24th 2015!

Oracle Java Cloud Service is a part of the platform service offerings in Oracle Public Cloud Services. Powered by Oracle WebLogic Server, it provides a platform on top of Oracle’s enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure for developing and deploying new or existing Java EE applications.

Schedule: April 24th 2015 15:00-16:00 CET (Berlin time)

Presenters: Cosmin Tudor & Jürgen Kress

Registration: please visit our registration page here

In this eSeminar we will provide both an overview presentation and a short demo that will cover the new Oracle Java Cloud Services – Platform as a Service offerings and the integration with other Oracle Cloud offerings like: Developer Cloud Services, Database Cloud Services, Documents Cloud Services …

Do you want to learn more about innovative features, capabilities and roadmap of Oracle Java Cloud Services? Then this technical overview is for you.

Presentation Outline – 1 hour

  • Java Cloud Services:
    • Java Cloud Services PaaS and PaaS – Virtual Image
    • Java Cloud Services SaaS Extensions
    • Management and Administration:
      • Provisioning
      • Backup & Recovery
      • Patching
      • Scaling
      • REST API
    • Coherence Cloud Services
    • Storage Cloud Services
    • Compute Cloud Services
  • Developer Cloud Services
  • Database Cloud Services

Audience

  • Java/JavaEE/WebLogic Consultants & Architects

For details please visit our registration page here.

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SOA Suite in the Oracle Cloud! Learn more about Java Cloud Service – join our Webcast April 24th 2015

April 22, 2015 Leave a comment

Join our Webcast on April 24th 2015!

Oracle Java Cloud Service is a part of the platform service offerings in Oracle Public Cloud Services. Powered by Oracle WebLogic Server, it provides a platform on top of Oracle’s enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure for developing and deploying new or existing Java EE applications.

Schedule: April 24th 2015 15:00-16:00 CET (Berlin time)

Presenters: Cosmin Tudor & Jürgen Kress

Registration: please visit our registration page here

In this eSeminar we will provide both an overview presentation and a short demo that will cover the new Oracle Java Cloud Services – Platform as a Service offerings and the integration with other Oracle Cloud offerings like: Developer Cloud Services, Database Cloud Services, Documents Cloud Services …

Do you want to learn more about innovative features, capabilities and roadmap of Oracle Java Cloud Services? Then this technical overview is for you.

Presentation Outline – 1 hour

  • Java Cloud Services:
    • Java Cloud Services PaaS and PaaS – Virtual Image
    • Java Cloud Services SaaS Extensions
    • Management and Administration:
      • Provisioning
      • Backup & Recovery
      • Patching
      • Scaling
      • REST API
    • Coherence Cloud Services
    • Storage Cloud Services
    • Compute Cloud Services
  • Developer Cloud Services
  • Database Cloud Services

Audience

  • Java/JavaEE/WebLogic Consultants & Architects

For details please visit our registration page here.

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Patch SOA/BPM VM to WebCenter 11.1.1.8 by The Cattle Crew

April 1, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002At OTN you can find the latest 11g SOA/BPM Virtual Machine (VM) which also contains Webcenter. Unfortunately, Webcenter has been added in version 11.1.1.7 to that VM; as there are major enhancements in Webcenter 11.1.1.8 it generally makes sense to upgrade the VM to that version.

At the Oracle website a documentation for upgrading from 11.1.1.7 to 11.1.1.8 can be found. In this post I want to describe which steps of the update guide I actually executed in order to upgrade my VM and which ones I skipped as they seem to be optional.

The particular steps are also described in full detail here.

Pre-Patching Tasks

I skipped all pre-patching tasks, as we’re starting with a VM that does not contain any data so far and which already contains an up to date Weblogic installation. Read the complete article here.

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ECID propagation between SCA composites and JAX-WS web services by Nicolas Fonnegra

February 6, 2015 1 Comment

 

clip_image002The Oracle SOA Suite provides an Audit Trail monitor screen where the message flow between the different SCA composites can be tracked. Depending on the audit level, it can provide a very detailed chronology of the different states of the message, including the first component that receives the messages, its correspondent transformation along the way, and the routing it’s final destination. Nevertheless, a SOA platform is intended to integrate not only internal composites but also external components. The question is how to maintain the audit trail consistency in such scenarios?

The Oracle A-team posted a very helpful blog demonstrating how to propagate the ECID between JCA adapter calls in order to maintain the audit trail consistency. This blog is going to demonstrate how to achieve this result with JAXWS web services.

As the reader might have already figured it out, the key to this problem relies with the ECID. The execution context id (ECID) is the mechanism the SOA Suite uses to keep track of the messages as it passes between the different components. If an SCA calls another one, it will pass through the ECID, helping the audit trail to correlate the different component instances into one flow. Also, if instead of a SCA composite a JAXWS web service, the ECID will be passed in the SOAP header, more specifically in the ReplyTo element: Read the complete article here.

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Throttling in SOA Suite via Parking Lot Pattern by Greg Mally

February 5, 2015 1 Comment

 

clip_image002The Parking Lot Pattern has been leveraged in many Oracle SOA Suite deployments to handle complex batching, message correlation, and complex processing flows. One scenario that is a frequent topic of discussion is throttling SOA Suite so as not to overwhelm slower downstream systems. Most often this is accomplished via the tuning knobs within SOA Suite and WebLogic Server. However, there are times when the built-in tuning cannot be tweaked enough to stop flooding slower systems. SOA design patterns can be leveraged when product features do not address these edge use cases. This blog will focus on using The Parking Lot Pattern as one implementation for throttling. Also note a working example is provided.

Throttling Parking Lot

The key piece to this pattern is the database table that will be used for the parking lot. The table is very simple and comprised of 3 columns:

Column

Description

ID (NUMBER)

This is the unique ID/key for the row in the table.

STATE (VARCHAR)

This will be used for state management and logical delete with the database adapter. There are three values this column will hold:

1.

N – New (Not Processed)

2.

P – Processing (In-flight interaction with slower system)

3.

C – Complete (Slower system responded to interaction)

The database adapter will poll for ‘N’ew rows and will mark the row as ‘P’rocessing when it hands it over to a BPEL process.

PAYLOAD (CLOB)

The message that would normally be associated with a component is stored here as an XML clob.

The Use Case Flow

Without the parking lot, the normal flow for this use case would be:

1.

Some client applications call SOA Suite via Web Service, JMS, etc.

2.

An asynchronous BPEL instance is created and invokes the slower system for every client request within the tuning parameters of the SOA engine

3.

The slower system cannot handle the volume and gets flooded

How the flow is changed with the parking lot:

1.

Some client applications call SOA Suite via Web Service, JMS, etc.

2.

Each client request is inserted into the parking lot table as an XML clob with STATE = ‘N’.

3.

A composite containing a polling database adapter will select 1 row with STATE = ‘N’ and the count of rows with STATE = ‘P’ are less than a throttle value (e.g., 5).

4.

If the in-flight interactions with the slower system are less than the throttle value, the database adapter gets the next available row and marks it as being processed (STATE = ‘P’).

5.

This row is handed off to an asynchronous BPEL process that will invoke a different BPEL process responsible for interacting with the slower system.

6.

When the slower system responds and this response propagates back to the initiating BPEL process, the row is marked as complete (STATE = ‘C’).

7.

Go to step 3 until all records have been processed.

The throttle control value represents the maximum number of in-flight BPEL processes that are interacting with the slower system. We will see later how this value can be changed at runtime through the SOA Suite Enterprise Manager console.

Read the complete article here.

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