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Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 - A Hands-on Tutorial

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Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 - A Hands-on Tutorial

Overview of this book

BPEL, Business Process Execution Language is the definitive standard in writing and defining actions within business processes. Oracle BPEL Process Manager R1 is Oracle's latest offering, providing you with a complete end-to-end platform for the creation, implementation, and management of your BPEL business processes that are so important to your service-oriented architecture."Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial" is your guide to BPEL design and development, SOA Suite platform troubleshooting, and engineering in a detailed step-by-step guide working real-world examples and case studies. Using industry-leading practices you will start by creating your first BPEL process and move onto configuring your processes, then invoking, orchestrating, and testing them. You will then learn how to use architect and design services using BPEL, performance tuning, integration, and security, as well as high availability, troubleshooting, and modeling for the future. "Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial" is your complete hands-on guide to Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11g.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Orchestration


Organizations are moving away from using monolithic, static applications to agile and flexible services-based applications to stay economically competitive in the market. Orchestration allows standards-based interoperable services to be combined and reused quickly, to deliver in changing business requirements. Orchestration of the services is essential for enabling Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Process orchestration is a mechanism of combining services and directing and managing their process flows. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is one of the leading standards for implementing services orchestration.

As a simple example, to provide an alarm service for clients, we would need the following services:

  • Date service: This provides a real-time date.

  • Time service: This provides a real-time time.

  • Alarm service: This allows users to set an alarm for the pre-defined data and time. It also provides an asynchronous notification to the user when the pre-defined date and...