Tuning BPEL adapter properties

Each of the SOA Suite adapters has a number of properties that can be tuned depending upon your application requirements. This high-level recipe describes some of the options available, and how to tune them for your application.

Getting ready

You will need a good understanding of SOA Suite programming principles for this recipe.

How to do it...

The following steps explain how to tune the properties of the commonly used BPEL adapters.

1. Tune inbound FTP and file adapters to use a dedicated thread pool, by setting the ThreadCount property to a positive value, such as 10. If your file adapter is only being used to detect the arrival of a file, then setting UseHeaders to true can prevent the whole file payload being passed into the process. If the files do not arrive frequently, then PollingFrequency can be increased to above the default of one minute. If multiple, small files arrive, then MaxRaiseSize can be used to increase the number of files that are read in at a...