SOA Suite 11g – Using Spring Component to mimic Http Binding and integrate RESTful services

In an earlier post, I showed for the Oracle SOA Suite 11g how we can use the Mediator's Java Callout functionality to integrate RESTful services into our SOA Composite applications, even though we currently have no Http Binding Service nor WSIF support (SOAP Java Binding) at our disposal in the SOA Suite – link to [...]

The Oracle SOA Suite 11g HttpBinding or another way to call RESTful services from SOA Composite Applications

I wanted to take a quick look at REST(ful) WebServices and see how those can be integrated into the SCA based SOA Composite Applications that we create with the Oracle SOA Suite. Currently, it does not have the HTTP binding that the 10.1.3 release of the SOA Suite used to have. So what are the [...]

What is Oracle WebCenter? (Part 2)

Since an essential element of modern Portals and Business Applications is that they are designed to be evolved by Business Users after they have been built, a critical part of the software infrastructure for Business Applications is that it must make it easy for users to get the information they need and to work with [...]

Portal and WebCenter: How to choose?

Over the past few months, this question seems to keep coming up.  So I figured that I’d spend a little time time discussing targets for the two products.  Then in the future, I can lay out directions.  The important point for everyone to understand is that both Portal and WebCenter have a large set of [...]

Oracle WebCenter Suite Available for Download

Oracle WebCenter Suite, a component of
Oracle Fusion Middleware, combines the standards-based, declarative development
of JavaServer Faces, the flexibility and power of portlets and runtime
customization, and a set of integrated Web 2.0 services for developing
context-centric, composite applications.
Oracle WebCenter Suite offers
the following key features:

Enhanced support for standards-based portlet creation

Expanded portlet consumption support for [...]

Blog: Deploy SOA Suite 11g Composite Applications with Ant Scripts

Oracle ACE Edmund Biemond illustrates how to deploy composite applications in Oracle SOA Suite 11g using Ant scripts.
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The future (2006 version), has arrived

Remember 2006? Things were starting to fall into place for IT management integration and automation:

SDD was already on its way to cleanly describe/package/manage the lifecycle of simple and composite applications alike,
the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to “desired-state [...]

Cost Effective Management of Composite SOA Applications

Hear Glen Hawkins, Principal Product Manager – Oracle SOA Management (formerly from ClearApp) talk to Jyothi Swaroop, Product Marketing Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware, about how Oracle’s recent acquisition ClearApp adds tremendous value to Oracle’s SOA Governance and Management portfolio. Learn how Oracle CAMM facilitates automated modeling, monitoring and management across composite SOA applications thereby increasing [...]

Oracle Middleware Strategy Update: Oracle WebCenter Suite

Learn about Oracle’s new approach to Enterprise 2.0 and how it promotes information worker productivity based on highly interactive tools like wikis, blogs and mashups. Vice President of Product Management Vince Casarez describes Oracles’ new product Oracle WebCenter Suite that both supports the rapid development of out-of-the-box, community based portals and the creation of [...]

Techtarget Survey: SOA Still on the Rise

SOA growth and change: TechTarget survey shows SaaS, BPM emerging
According to a writeup on a recent survey from SearchSOA/Techtarget, SOA is growing strong at the enterprise level, as evidenced by this excerpt –
Despite some bad press of SOA at the start of the year, SOA is in fact motoring forward. Among the survey respondents, 49% [...]