Lifecycle management for Oracle Service Bus

In this section, we will cover how to provision the OSB services. In previous chapters, we learned about deployment procedures, software library, and gold images.

In a development environment, developers can build new OSB services through Eclipse IDE or through the OSB administration console. The OSB administration console is a web-based application for OSB configuration and it can also be used to define new OSB services.

To deploy OSB services in a staging or production environment, administrator needs to extract services from the development environment and deploy them to the production environment. Besides deployment in new environment, administrators may need some environment-specific customizations on the services.

Enterprise Manager provides deployment procedures and using which you can:

• Extract OSB services from a reference environment and build gold image

• Provision new OSB service from a reference environment, and apply customizations

• Provision...