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Applications Release 12 users can configure their environments to delegate user authentication to an external Single Sign-On 10g instance. In this optional configuration, Single Sign-On validates E-Business Suite user credentials against an external Oracle Internet Directory instance. Oracle Single Sign-On (SSO) and Oracle Internet Directory (OID) 10g version 10.1.2.3 are now certified with Oracle E-Business [...]

BPEL: $ORACLE_HOME/bpel/domains/<domain_name>/tmp … but in fact all is in the database ESB: $ORACLE_HOME/integration/esb …. look deeper into it

Dave Shaffer and Ashish Mohindroo discuss the Oracle BPA suite (Business Process Analysis) and its relationship to the SOA Suite (Service Oriented Architecture) and BPEL Process Manager (Business Process Execution Language). Guests discuss BPEL’s role in sophisticated BPM including human workflow. Shaffer and Mohindroo outline Oracle’s BPM roadmap and the IDS Scheer integration.

Brian Simmermon, VP and CIO, Subaru of America, and a member of Oracle’s Fusion Strategy Council explains how Subaru is aligning their business and IT strategy to improve sales through Siebel and EBS, and is looking at implementing Fusion Technologies such as BPEL, AIA and Enterprise Manager to begin their evolutionary path to Fusion.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g allows you to create an XSLT mapper that uses multiple input sources. Pete Wang shows you how. Link to the original site

Brian Simmermon, VP and CIO, Subaru of America, and a member of Oracle’s Fusion Strategy Council explains how Subaru is aligning their business and IT strategy to improve sales through Siebel and EBS, and is looking at implementing Fusion Technologies such as BPEL, AIA and Enterprise Manager to begin their evolutionary path to Fusion. Link [...]

Have you noticed the slow build-up of business process engines available “as a service”? Force.com recently introduced a “Visual Process Manager”. Amazon is looking for product managers to help customers “securely compos[e] processes using capabilities from all parts of their organization as well as those outside their organization, including existing legacy applications, long-running activities, human [...]

In 10.1.3.4 Oracle added a significant new feature to help diagnose problems in the BPEL Process manager.  This feature allows you to turn up logging for a a test and run thread dumps every ten seconds.  When you are done you can download the logs and thread dumps as a single zip file to either [...]

Lately, I have been playing around wih the integration between Fusion Middleware and Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products. The Fusion Middleware stack (BPEL, Mediator, OSB or ODI) can be used to send transactions from external systems (directly or indirectly) to the Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products using the Web Services interface (XAI) used [...]

Despite a number of useful blog entries out there it seems that calling EJB 3 from BPEL is still stumping people so thought I would go through the steps.  Note that these are much easier than in earlier releases of EJB and BPEL. Create an EJB 3 Session Bean First thing I did was create [...]