Summary

In this chapter, we have become familiar with how to develop, deploy, and manage SOA composites with BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11g. We have completed an overview of the BPEL design-time and runtime environment and reviewed the major features. We have also become familiar with Oracle Enterprise Manager Console, which enables us to deploy, test, manage, and debug BPEL processes within SOA composite applications.

For BPEL development, Oracle provides an integrated graphical development environment in JDeveloper. JDeveloper simplifies the development considerably and offers several tools that simplify the development, such as Copy Rule editor, XPath Expression builder, XSLT Mapper, and the BPEL Validation browser. We have become familiar with the SOA Composite Editor. We have demonstrated how to develop an SOA composite with a BPEL process in JDeveloper, how to test it, and deploy it. We have also shown how to manage SOA composite applications.

In the next chapter, we will look...