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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

SOA environment


Compared to a typical web application environment, usually the SOA environment consists of many systems and/or applications. Reusing the existing applications, also known as legacy applications in a loosely coupled way to achieve the business agility/flexibility, is one of the goals of implementing SOA.

The SOA environment is highly available only when all its component systems either meet or exceed the business service's availability SLAs. We need to ensure that all the endpoint systems orchestrated by BPEL are capable of meeting the availability uptime SLAs. The SOA integration points are designed and validated to recover from the external sub systems and service outages caused by planned and unplanned maintenance windows for pre-defined durations. We should clearly articulate and identify the external sub systems and services that directly impact our service's availability uptime SLAs. The end-to-end synchronous transaction's availability is immediately impacted by a sub...