Partitions provide a mechanism to logically group your SOA composites. Thus, for example, the code for your Human Resources integrations can reside in a partition separate from your EBS integrations, offering better structure and organization. There are a few bulk lifecycle management tasks that can be performed on all SOA composite applications in a partition, as we will describe in this section. For example, all SOA composites within a partition can be shut down with a single operation. The following screenshot shows a list of partitions in the navigator under soa-infra:
Figure 4.5: Partitions are displayed in the navigator in Fusion Middleware Control
Each partition may have one or more SOA composite applications deployed to it. Partitions in Oracle SOA Suite 12c also provide the ability to set up group-specific or user-specific permissions on each partition, including viewing, deployment, and administration. Partitions cannot be nested (that is...