AS 11 SOA EDN Log URL

Since many folks asked about an ability to view posted events, here is the url to do so
http://:/soa-infra/events/edn-db-log

China May Lead Patenting, How About Innovation?

Title is self explanatory. My following blog refers the stories..

http://texploration.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/china-may-lead-patenting-how-about-innovation/

Larry, Fusion Apps, and SOA Middleware Technology

At Oracle Open World 2010, Larry Ellison glowingly referred Oracle Fusion Apps (OFA) in his eagerly watched keynote as the largest engineering project of Oracle in the recent times. He covered some important aspects of the Oracle Fusion Apps. He said that it is the first ERP Application completely based on standards. While terming it as "Never done before", he specifically mentioned BPEL! He mentioned that the Fusion Apps is all about Intelligence and not just process automation. Per Larry, the Fusion Apps has wonderful web 2.0 based easy to use UI and search capabilities. Most importantly, he specifically mentioned that the Fusion Applications is based on SOA technology. In fact, this was on his slide deck. All of us who worked on SOA - BPM stack must have been proud to hear Larry saying that.

At the end of his keynpte, Larry invited Steve Miranda, In-charge of Fusion Apps, to demonstrated the Fusion Apps. you must have seen the Work List apps and might have immediately recognized the SOA suite serving the business process. After an intense work for years, hearing such great comments is a rejuvenating memorable moment of all of us who worked on the product as well as helped to happen the Fusion Apps!

Resolving timeouts while using ejb beans for SOA invocation - deployment

If you are using AS11 BPEL's apis for deployment or invocations and facing time-outs, and the task really needs more time, then you may need to increase the ejb timeout.


1. Find ejb_ob_engine_wls.jar in your deployment.
2. Modify META-INF/weblogic-ejb-jar.xml,
3. Increase time-out
4. rejar and replace the original jar

Selectively turning off the service engines in Oracle SOA AS11

Thanks to the Spring based implementation of Oracle SOA AS11, if you are not using B2B or mediator or decision or any other service engine, you can turn it off by removing their reference beans in fabric's Spring config (fabric-config.xml). Just be careful though! You may accidently remove something that is needed :-) This may bring the memory consumption down by 100s of MBs.

Integration technologies for Cloud

2010 is seeing Cloud computing and mobile computing at their 'tipping points'. There are many startups being launched in these areas. With many applications being SaaS based hosted on Cloud, the next requirement would be how to connect them securely and reliably. What could be the right technologies for the same. This need would definitely turn into Cloud based Integration technologies - SOA technologies.