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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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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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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Integrating OBPM with Oracle Service Bus

Over the past few years I have seen many of our customers use a combination of Oracle BPM/Aqualogic BPM and Oracle Service Bus/Aqualogic Service Bus.  These two products are very complimentary within a company’s SOA environment.  OSB can provide the service aggregation, transformation, and security while OBPM can provide the orchestration of the services that […]

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Adding a Custom header to your Web Service (WSDL)

It’s very common that you have to define a WSDL and want it to have custom header. I have been using WSDL’s with custom headers for some time and thought I will post this sample WSDL for all of you who want to define a SOAP 1.1 WSDL with a custom message header. Below is […]

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Problems registering OBPM 10gR3 with OSB 10gR3

I have been encountering issues while trying to register OBPM 10gR3 with OSB 10gR3. Every time I try that I am getting the bad class version error message. I have spoken to oracle and been told that there are 2 solutions to this problem. 1. com.bea.common.configfwk_1.2.0.0.jar is not part of bpm installation or any of […]

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Using Oracle BPEL Process Manager with Oracle Service Bus part 2

Calling OSB service from BPEL process In my previous post, I already talked about calling BPEL services from OSB. In this blog entry I will show you how to call an synchronous OSB proxy service from BPEL. If you have problems to get this working, please see my previous blog entry how to solve this. […]

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Using Oracle BPEL Process Manager with Oracle Service Bus – Part 1

Caliing BPEL processes from OSB Synchronus and Asynchronus With OSB 10.3 ( BEA Aqualogic Service Bus ) you can call BPEL services with the ormi or opmn protocol ( just like OESB ). With version 10.3, OSB support the bpel 10.1.3.4 transport. In this postI will show you how to call the BPEL services from […]

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