Approach to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Lonneke Dikmans, Approach Alliance
This session presents an approach to the strategic Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g components, using a customer case and in-depth knowledge of the new Oracle SOA Suite 11g. The case study covers a car leasing firm that migrated from Oracle SOA Suite 10g and Oracle WebCenter 10g to Oracle’s strategic platform with Oracle WebLogic solutions, SCA, and Oracle Application Development Framework 11g.
Portals: The Way to Realize User Experience in a Service-Oriented Architecture? Lonneke Dikmans, Approach Alliance
Portals seem like a natural fit to realize the front-end in an SOA. Lonneke Dikmans describes two customer cases; in the first, Oracle Portal was used in conjunction with Oracle SOA Suite. The second one used Oracle WebCenter as a process portal. In both cases, the portal did not offer the expected benefits. Lonneke Dikmans will discuss use cases for the application of portal technology and the critical success factors for portals in SOA environments.
It's Happening! On Event-Driven SOA Lucas Jellema, AMIS
Events signify potentially interesting facts. Processes, applications, and services can broadcast events—without worrying what happens with them. Processes or services interested in particular events should receive them. The Event Delivery Network in SOA Suite 11g makes this happen. This session explains how events fuel extremely decoupled architectures. It demonstrates events produced inside composite SOA applications and also in PL/SQL, ADF, and complex event processors that extract business events from streams of apparently meaningless facts.
Derisk Your SOA - Traps You Should be Aware Of Matjaz B. Juric, SOA Competency Centre, BPELmentor, and Ana Sasa
In the last years, many companies have begun their journey to implementing service-oriented architecture. However, service-oriented architecture (SOA) spans a large range of principles and concepts, and different solutions bring different benefits to the business. This session will present the most typical approaches to SOA implementation that can be found in business systems and will consider their advantages and drawbacks. The session will discuss how to assess the current state of SOA in a business system and provide guidelines for achieving a higher level of SOA maturity, with the focus on methods and technologies that can enable a more mature SOA with the purpose of minimizing the IT gap, enabling higher business value, and improved business agility.
BPEL Dehydration Data Store: How to Monitor for Peak Performance and Still Provide Visibility to Users Russ Markovich, Apollo Group
This discussion will highlight lessons learned from a large and high volume Oracle BPEL installation. This presentation touches on topics such as the database objects of the BPEL Dehydration Data store, useful tools such as Oracle APEX and BAM to expose data trends, Oracle supplied BPEL Java APIs and purge script to control data volume, and finally, an overview of the Oracle BPEL console configuration settings and their impact on database performance.
The Process of Modeling Enterprise Architectures Mauricio Naranjo, ONE IT WORLD CORP.
This technical session presents, step-by-step, the activities and deliverables related to enterprise architecture modeling, which includes: defining a vision architecture, business architecture, information systems architecture (data and applications), and technology and solutions architecture. Industry methods such as, Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework, Federated Enterprise Architecture Framework, and the Open Group Architecture Framework will be presented, as well as guidelines to implement the governance strategy and architecture change management process.
BPM in 2010 - Myths and Reality Hajo Normann, HP Enterprise Services
BPM is about business agility through business-IT-alignment. The idea is to create a link between process models and executable processes, so when one changes, the other is changed too. Today, two languages play in the field: BPMN for process models and BPEL for executable processes. This session will show how a BPMN model can be translated to BPEL in Oracle BPA Suite, and will go in depth into the created source to understand the remaining impedance mismatches. While the session will show that BPMN / BPEL roundtripping may not be feasible in many circumstances, not everything is doom. With BPMN 2.0, a language emerges that is both model and executable. BPMN 2.0 is crucial in both BPA Suite and BPM Suite, thus the session will delve into how it is supported in any of these and give guidance in which context to use which of the Suites.
Best Practices for Testing SOA Suite 11g Based Systems Guido Schmutz, Trivadis
This session presents best practices for testing solutions developed for the SOA Suite 11g platform. Oracle SOA Suite 11g offers out-of-the-box support for testing BPEL and mediator services. But is this enough? How can we test services which are dependent on external services not available at testing time? Is there an efficient way to mock these services? The session covers both unit testing as well as integration testing of SOA solutions.
BPM - The Business Face of SOA Mark Simpson, Griffiths Waite
This session will focus on showing how business process management (BPM) gives the business view of a process on top of an SOA implementation. Oracle BPM and BPA will be explored through a demonstration, along with a case study from a UK-based financial services society where a BPM transformation program has used these tools to help support the delivery of business efficiencies through continuous process improvement within the organization.
EA, BPM, and SOA with the Oracle BPA Suite Dirk Staehler, OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH
EA, BPM, and SOA belong together. But how can different perspectives of each stakeholder group within the different disciplines be addressed in an integrated way? A coherent answer to this question is the key to a successful implementation of SOA solutions. The Oracle BPA Suite can be used to support each individual perspective in a unified repository. The presentation explains how this can be done and helps to prevent the pitfalls.
Java Power for the SOA Suite Developer Lucas Jellema, AMIS
For a long time, the perception of using Oracle's SOA Suite was that its usage required deep XML knowledge. This has changed dramatically with SOA Suite 11g and the supporting tools. This talk will introduce you to the extended and enhanced Java capabilities all across the platform, the native support for Spring components inside composites, and the WebLogic SCA for Java container. Learn how to transparently leverage existing Java code, and let the platform worry about serialization and XML generation.
What Makes a Service a Good Service? Torsten Winterberg, OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH
Ask your team what they think would describe a "good" service. We often hear universal statements like, "a service must not be too coarse grained" or "a service has to deliver business benefit." Everything right, but how do you get something concrete like a checklist out of that? This session really looks at the most important aspects of services, from a business and a technical perspective.
