Testing Oracle Service Bus components

Testing Approach with OSB I have been having a thought about what’s the best way forward with automating unit tests with OSB First of all there are 2 things here… One is Unit testing and the Second bit is automating them… UNIT TESTING with OSB A customer of mine was very keen on unit testing and […]

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Securing an OSB Service with OWSM

In this post I will show how to secure a web service used by OSB ( Oracle Service Bus ) by authenticating it against an OWSM (Oracle Web Services manager) policy. We will add a User Name Token service OWSM policy to secure the Proxy Service in OSB. Below are steps in using a simple […]

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Moving and managing messages in JMS Queues

When dealing with several JMS Queues it is apparent that one would need to move messages across these queues and manage them. e.e. moving messages from error queues to source queues, destination to source to replay etc. So the question is how can you move a message from one JMS Queue to another? Well there […]

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Implementing Security with OSB

I am looking to implement WS Security with OSB for one of our customers, so on doing a quick search the following articles caught my eye. Will be looking at some of these before I decide what would work best for my situation, or whether I need to come up with a new approach all […]

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Configuring Automatic Engine Recovery for Oracle BPEL Process Manager

Oracle SOA Suite provides an automatic recovery feature in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control Console that enables you to configure and recover: All activities (for example, wait activities and OnAlarm branches of pick activities) that have an associated expiration date and are scheduled with the SOA Infrastructure to be rescheduled All activities that are […]

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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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Weblogic transaction timed out after 302/603 seconds issue

Problem: Transaction Rolledback.: weblogic.transaction.internal.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out after 603 seconds A lot of you might have encountered an issue of Weblogic transaction timed out after 302/603 etc seconds. We have been struggling with this for some time as well. Non Recoverable System Fault : Transaction Rolledback.: weblogic.transaction.internal.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out after 603 seconds BEA1-3FB6FB464035C13E3227 at […]

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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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