Summary

In this chapter, we have become familiar with the Oracle BPEL Process Manager 10g. We have seen that Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a Java-based BPEL server that provides comprehensive support for BPEL. We have provided an overview of BPEL Process Manager architecture and reviewed the major features, such as dehydration, version control, and clustering. We have become familiar with how processes can be deployed, with the deployment descriptor, and with the BPEL Console. Using the BPEL Console we can deploy, test, manage, and debug BPEL processes. We have also become familiar with domains.

For BPEL development, Oracle provides an integrated graphical development environment called BPEL Designer in two versions: JDeveloper BPEL Designer and Eclipse BPEL Designer. BPEL Designer offers several tools that simplify development, such as the Copy Rule editor, XPath Expression builder, XSLT Mapper, and BPEL Validation browser.

In the next chapter, we will look at the advanced features of Oracle...