Overview and Architecture
The Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a run-time environment for BPEL processes. BPEL Process Manager 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) fully supports BPEL version 1.1 and provides additional tools for deployment, monitoring, and management of BPEL processes. At the time of writing this book, Oracle BPEL Process Manager is one of the most complete BPEL servers available.
BPEL Process Manager has been developed in Java and runs on a Java Enterprise Edition-compliant application server, for example, the Oracle Application Server 10g or OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java). Oracle also provides versions for the open-source JBoss and for the BEA WebLogic Server. With manual installation, Oracle BPEL Process Manager can also be used with IBM and Sun application servers.
Let us look at the architecture of the BPEL Process Manager, shown in the following figure:
The Oracle BPEL Process Manager has four major parts:
BPEL Server
BPEL Console
BPEL Designer (JDeveloper or Eclipse)
Database
