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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

Service bus


Oracle SOA Suite is used for the process orchestration. These processes are primarily stateful and long-running. The service bus is used for routing messages and message transformation.

Oracle Service Bus provides support for communication with Oracle BPEL Process Manager, which enables us to include the BPEL processes in our SOA composite applications. Using the native BPEL transport within Oracle Service Bus, one can expose BPEL processes as web services in the Oracle Service Bus layer allowing other services to invoke BPEL processes.

Oracle Service Bus was previously known as BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, which was a part of the BEA product acquisition. Oracle Service Bus has a separate install as compared to Oracle SOA Suite. The mediator component of the Oracle SOA Suite is similar to that of Oracle Service Bus. However, Oracle Service Bus is great for enterprise-wide integration, message transformation with XSLT and XQUERY, that is, it is large and powerful compared to the mediator...