Tag Archives: OSB

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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Installing OSB ID/Eclipse for OSB Development

I came across this very useful post on the Oracle Blog and thought to copy it to this area as it might be useful for us all in case oracle moves the original post. Installing Eclipse for OSB Development OSB provides 2 methods for OSB development, the OSB console, and Eclipse. This post deals with […]

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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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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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Restful Web services with OSB

I have been working on SOAP webserivces for some time, but never really used REST services with OSB up untill recently. I thought it would be useful to add a new post on to my blog to help users who like me are trying to hook their REST services with OSB and then may be […]

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