Overview

The Oracle SOA Suite 11g PS 2 (11.1.1.3.0) fully supports BPEL versions 1.1 and 2.0; however, version 2.0 is only supported at runtime and is not yet production ready. At the time of writing this book, we cannot use graphical editor for the development of BPEL 2.0 processes. In addition to standard BPEL support, Oracle also provides extensions to BPEL in the form of new activities (such as FlowN) and XPath functions. Oracle extensions are described in detail in Chapters 5 and 6. As Oracle SOA Suite 11g follows the SCA-compliant approach for building SOA composite applications, BPEL processes can be implemented and deployed only as part of a composite application. Every BPEL process is therefore a service component inside an SOA composite application.

We will look at the four major parts:

• BPEL Component Designer

• BPEL Service Engine

• Database

• Enterprise Manager Console

BPEL Component Designer

BPEL Component Designer enables the development of BPEL processes in a graphical environment without...