Chapter 4. Managing Services

Developers can create SOA services by using a number of different technologies. Oracle SOA Suite 12c provides us with the ability to run services that are developed as SOA composite applications (or simply SOA composites) and OSB services. Though both types of services are packaged in single deployable JAR files, they are very dissimilar technologies that are developed differently and are executed and managed in completely separate runtimes. However, the beauty of Fusion Middleware Control 12c is that the administrator is given a single consolidated view of runtime instances of these distinct services. Developers can harness the advantages of each of these separate technologies while the administrator can manage them collectively.

Composites can contain any number of service components, which include BPEL or BPMN processes, mediator services, human tasks and workflows, and business rules. They do not include OSB services, which are separately developed...