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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 Suite deployment


The Service Component Architecture (SCA) is an assembly model for composite services. The specifications for SCA are managed by the standard body OASIS. The SCA specification assumes that any business application consists of a series of services. All the services can be assembled as composite services using the SCA model.

A typical web application written using JSPs and/or servlets is deployed as a .war (web archive) file and an enterprise application written using EJBs and others is deployed as an .ear (enterprise archive) file. Similarly, a SOA composite application written using BPEL is deployed as a .sar (service archive) file. All service components such as business rules, mediator, BPEL processes, adaptors, and others are packaged in a single .sar file called Service Archive.

The deployment descriptor for a .war file is web.xml; similarly, the composite application assembly model uses composite.xml. The composite.xml file conforms to the SCA specifications. The composite...