Among their many characteristics, all too often SOA projects have been labeled in their worst moments as:
Guess what. None of these are characteristics of SOA, but instead…
I know many of our readers already know what SOA is — in fact, many of you probably have your own definition. However, the below is a nice animation that helps provide a simple explanation that a business user can appreciate.
Tuning OAS and BPEL Console.
Oracle has made some great strides with their BPM and SOA offerings. For M&S, combining process and technology has become even more exciting with Oracle’s tools. For the first time, Oracle has made it possible for our consultants to more easily bring together best of breed solutions (IDS Scheer’s ARIS and Oracle SOA) and leading industry standards (BPMN, BPEL, and BPEL4People) to our implementations, which typically involve some level of process management/improvement and technology automation (workflow and reporting). Following is a quick image of how each person in an organization fits into our approach when combining process with technology using … Read More
Undeploying a single application in Oracle Application Server is pretty straightforward. However, I had a scenario where I needed to undeploy many human tasks (since each of them is deployed as an application in OracleAS) and undeploying them one-by-one was becoming painful. I recalled finding a place to undeploy mutiple applications, but couldn’t remember it exactly. After digging a little, I figured it out again and wanted to write it here in case it can help you (or me in the likely event that I forget again). From the Cluster Topology page of Enterprise Manager Application Server Control, you get … Read More
This is a very, very common complaint I hear from Oracle BPEL developers, testers, and production support.
I find there are a couple reasons that this can happen:
1. The flow has faulted sometime after the wait activity, but never…
Are you running out of disk space because your domain.log is growing too fast? Open BPEL_HOME/domains//config/log4j-config.xml Change the appender class from com.collaxa.cube.util.CXRollingFileAppender to org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender Add a new parameter: 1 <param value="50MB" name="MaxFileSize" /><param value="50MB" name="MaxFileSize" /> Here is an example of what the file should look like in the end: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/"> <appender class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender" name="A1"> <param value="true" name="ImmediateFlush" /> <param value="false" name="Append" /> <param value="D:/soa/product/10.1.3.1/as_1/bpel/domains/default/logs/domain.log" name="File" /> <param value="50MB" name="MaxFileSize" /> <param value="10? name="MaxBackupIndex" /><log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/"> <appender class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender" name="A1"> <param value="true" name="ImmediateFlush" /> <param value="false" name="Append" /> <param value="D:/soa/product/10.1.3.1/as_1/bpel/domains/default/logs/domain.log" name="File" /> <param value="50MB" … Read More
I was running into issues with my Jdev being inadequately slow, hanging, or freezing when working with large BPEL process even though the computer CPU and memory were not even close to maxed out. A little trick I learned in the past to help this problem is increasing the heap size for JDev to use.
