Performace Tunning with OSB – RouterRuntimeCache and Proxy initialisation

As your project grows and the number of proxy services you have in the project grows significantly (>100) you might notice that the performance of the services degrades heavily. This can be attributed to the face that the OSB is now unable to Cache all your services at runtime. OSB caches proxy service runtime meta-data […]

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OSB: Remote Server Connection Issue from OEPE

Problem: I am having an issue while trying to connect to my remote OSB server from my eclipse IDE installed as per instructions on oracle blog as per my previous post. I am running the prebuilt Oracle VBox Images for SOA 11.1.1.6.0 Downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/learnmore/vmsoa-172279.html Configured it for SOA_OSB_DEV Domain and started the servers which […]

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Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook – Initial thoughts

Hi All, Recently I managed to get my hands on the recently launched Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook written by some of the industries most talented people in the FMW space, namely Guido Schmutz, Edwin Biemond, Jan van Zoggel , Mischa Kölliker and Eric Elzinga The Book contains several recipes for real life problems we […]

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Start Small, Grow Fast

A really useful post by Edwin, Ronald and Demed Start Small, Grow Fast. Start Small, Grow Fast by Edwin Biemond, Ronald van Luttikhuizen, and Demed L’Her A set of pragmatic best practices for deploying a simple and sound SOA footprint that can grow with business demand. Published January 2012 Table of Contents Administrative considerations Does your […]

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BPEL vs Oracle Service Bus/Mediator

In continuation to my previous post about comparision between Oracle Service Bus (OSB formerly ALSB) and Mediator (formerly OESB) I thought I would like to extend it a bit to include the comparision with BPEL as well. BPEL Process Manager is the primary composition, orchestration and process engine in the SOA Suite. primarily used for stateful and […]

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Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Development Best Practices.

Strive to have a single message representation for as much of the pipeline as possible. This makes it easy to insert things at various points since you don’t have to think about what the current document format is. Always configure the service-level error handler. For non-SOAP services the built-in error handler only returns a transport […]

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Oracle Service Bus (OSB formerly ALSB) and Mediator (formerly OESB)

With the acquisition of BEA Oracle has taken ALSB made some changes to it and re-branded it as Oracle Service Bus (OSB). With the co-existence of OSB and Mediator one has to wonder, what’s the strategic direction from Oracle for OSB and mediator? To start with, Oracle Fusion Middleware and OSB come in two different […]

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Migrating SOA Suite 10 g components to SOA suite 11g

Hi Patrons, I have been working on some very exciting assignments offlate and one of the key ones which would like to share is the Migration from SOA suite 10g to SOA suite 11g. There are various options for this including using Jdeveloper and ant script. I prefer using a mix of both. I would […]

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introduction to Oracle Application Integration Architecture

AIA defines a common vocabulary of common business entities and their corresponding services. AIA defines a common vocabulary across applications and industries. Enterprise Business Objects (EBOs) are the key elements in this context. They canonically describe standard business entities such as an order or an invoice. Based on these generic business entities, AIA delivers other […]

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Consuming OSB Services from Oracle BPM

As discussed in my previous post, using Oracle BPM to consume services exposed through Oracle Service Bus is the most common type of integration.  In the diagram below you can see the highlighted path that is taken in this case.  All of the communication is between the BPM execution engine, Service Bus, and the back end […]

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