Summary
Oracle Enterprise Scheduler has been finally inducted in Oracle SOA Suite 12c without any additional licensing costs. It is an incredibly powerful addition that provides a completely metadata-driven approach to create scheduling components.
In this chapter, we introduced various components within Oracle ESS and discussed their capabilities using some real-life scenarios. On a whole, this chapter broadly covered the following topics:
Introduction to Oracle ESS, its administration consoles, and terminology
Creation of Job Definitions, Schedules, and Job Requests
Submission and monitoring of Job Requests, including viewing their log and audit trails
Creating Incompatibilities to run jobs that are mutually exclusive of one another
Creating Job Sets that execute jobs in serial (Job Dependencies) and parallel
Understanding how to purge and delete completed job requests using both Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and database packages
Tuning and troubleshooting ESS components...
