Building composite applications with SOA Composite Editor

SOA Composite Editor is a JDeveloper plug-in that follows the SCA standard as a way to assemble services, service components, and references into a single SOA composite application (composite). The details of a composite are stored in the composite.xml file. However, we do not need to edit that file by hand; instead, we can use the visual SOA Composite Editor, which allows us to simply drag-and-drop service components and binding components from the Component Palette to the composite diagram. Following is the screenshot of an SOA composite application, opened in the SOA Composite Editor. The composite shown is implemented by a single BPEL process service component, which uses three external Web Services (references). The composite defines one service (Web Service binding component), through which other applications can invoke the composite.

We can see that a composite application consists of three vertical swimlanes: Exposed Services...