Chapter 4. Using BPEL with Oracle SOA Suite 11g

In this chapter, we will get familiar with developing and executing BPEL processes in the Oracle SOA Suite 11g, which is currently one of the most powerful BPEL environments with good support for deployment, execution, and management of business processes defined in BPEL. We will get familiar with all stages of the BPEL process lifecycle. We will look at the BPEL Component Designer, which is a JDeveloper plug-in that represents a rich graphical development environment for implementing and testing BPEL processes and deploying the SOA composites, and thus eases the development and maintenance of BPEL processes considerably. We will also show how to deploy composite applications using the command-line utility and how to manage and test deployed composites using Oracle Enterprise Manager Console. We use version 11g PatchSet 2 (11.1.1.3.0) of the SOA Suite products in this book.

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g PS2 supports BPEL 2.0. However, BPEL 2.0 is...