Deploying SOA composite applications

Let us now show how we deploy a BPEL process to the Oracle SOA Server. We will assume that Oracle SOA Suite 11g has been successfully installed according to the installation instructions and that it uses the default port 8001. As every BPEL process is part of a SOA composite application, we deploy it as every other composite. The first step of deployment is to package the SOA composite application into an SOA archive (SAR) JAR file. A SAR file is a special JAR file that requires a prefix of sca_ (for example, sca_HelloWorld_rev1.0.jar).

Note

The SAR file is analogous to the BPEL suitcase archive of the previous releases, but at the higher composite level and it can contain additional service components of other types (Mediator, Business Rule, Spring, and Human Task).

The packaged SAR can include the following:

• Services, references, and service components.

• Oracle Web Service Manager (OWSM) policies and human workflow tasks flows.

• Metadata, such as WSDL...