Executable BPMN 2.0 in new Oracle BPM Studio 11g release - First POC to be completed in the next few weeks

Bring your workflow projects to the next level! Oracle just released the 11g release of BPM Studio 11g. The migration work from Ex-BEA Aqualogic BPM (formerly known as Fuego) has been done - and the new release looks more than promising. Being part of the beta program with a real life customer case has given us a lot of insight into the new product and its possibilities.

Major points for the start now:

We have real BPMN 2.0, which get's executed. No more transformation from business models to executable models - just press the run button...

BPM Studio is not only a standalone workflow modeling tool. It's an extension of the already existing SOA Suite 11g, which runs in production at many customer sites, given us the experience of finding no bugs of bigger matter during the last weeks.

Initial quality of this release is very high. Especially from a runtime perspective: whole BPEL engine is reused, BPMN just was integrated. Good news.

Best thing: all you know about the Oracle SOA world stays relevant, because BPMN is an extension on top of the service platform. Therefore all the basic and advanced features of the platform can be reused in our BPMN 2.0 world. The degree of reuse is astonishing...

 

SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 is out!

Long awaited, tons of new features. Oracle SOA Suite 11g Patch Set 2 is available now on OTN and edelivery. Best thing: this time it’s a “real” patch, which can be applied to SOA Suite 11g PS1. Infos: http://otn.oracle.com/soa

 

Oracle JDeveloper 11g 11.1.1.3.0 Released

JDev 11.1.1.3.0 already there. Waiting for SOA Suite 11g PS2, OSB 11g and BPM Studio 11g. Should come today, too, if signs and rumors are correct.

 

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html

 

 

 

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Eleven Open Source Cloud Computing Projects to Watch

Interesting blog entry, discussing the cloud and open source projects: http://socializedsoftware.com/2010/01/20/eleven-open-source-cloud-computing-projects-to-watch/

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EU-Kommission gibt Oracle grünes Licht für Sun-Übernahme

Endlich…: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/EU-Kommission-gibt-Oracle-gruenes-Licht-fuer-Sun-Uebernahme-909670.html

Masons of SOA interview

Thanks to Bob Rhubart we have a podcast interview on “what are the masons of soa” now online: http://blogs.oracle.com/archbeat/2009/12/arch2arch_podcast_show_notes_m.html

Bob runs the architect community at Oracle Technet. He got all five of us together on a workshop day one day before DOAG 2010 conference in Nürnberg.

 

Oracle and SpringSource (VMWare): OSGi at the core

Enterprise Modules Project (Gemini) Proposal (http://ow.ly/E8sX): SpringSource delivers for some time now the SpringSource dm server. Oracle is working on the Weblogic dm server. Both companies together are working on a standard for OSGi infrastructure. Curious to see the results…

 

Vier Konferenzen in sechs Wochen...

So, die Zeit der Konferenzen für dieses Jahr ist endlich wieder vorbei. Spannend und informativ war es, aber nach vier Konferenzen in sechs Wochen und 7 gehaltenen Vorträgen wünscht man sich doch wieder etwas „echte“ Arbeit herbei. Hier meine Tour der letzten Wochen:

-Oracle Open World, San Francisco, 8.-16. Oktober, „SOA and User Interfaces”

-SOA Symposium, Rotterdam, 22.-23. Oktober, “Next Generation SOA” mit Clemens Utschig und Hajo Normann, sowie „SOA and User Interfaces“

-W-Jax, München, 9.-13. November, „Was macht einen guten Service aus?“, „Was ist ein ESB, Konzepte im Vergleich“ mit Bernd Trops und der „SOA Advanced Day“ unseres Autorenteams des SOA Spezials

-DOAG, Nürnberg, 17.-19. November, „Was macht einen guten Service aus?“

 

News on Oracle ADF 11g

Just watch out for all the ADF 11g stuff on Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog: http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/

E.g. Best Practices ADF video from Steve Muench’s OOW session. Great.

SOA Manifesto

Wow – that was interesting to see this amazing group of people at work during SOA Symposium Rotterdam. After three days of deep discussions, they came up with a long awaited artifact: The SOA Manifesto. See www.soa-manifesto.org for the concrete words. Look at Hajo Normann’s excellent summary and deep dive on the Manifesto.

OOW 2009: Oracle BPEL really gets mature

Rumors say, that we get great new features in the Oracle BPEL area:

-running BPEL instances will get modifiable

-10g to 11g instances migration

-Monitor Express: instrument BPEL processes right from Jdev, feed into pre-build dashboards

 

OOW 2009: No open source ADF

It was a long awaited topic, to get ADF released as open source. Unfortunately, now Oracle decided to not go this step, because they need control about framework. ADF is strategic to whole Oracle development. So, we don’t get a open source release, but 550+ new features even in the next patch set of JDev 11g. From a licence perspective, it would be great to get a Weblogic XE edition, usable for free, to increase the adoption of ADF. Just a wish at the moment…

 

OOW 2009: The $10M prize

Larry Ellison was quite upset: IBM has been running a campaign called “Sunset” in which it has been telling Sun customers that Oracle is going to get out of the hardware business and therefore customers should start moving their software over to IBM servers. Ellison attacked this idea with presenting some benchmarks: “I’m always wary of these types of benchmarks because they usually involve one company’s systems being highly-tuned and then comparing them to a competitor’s standard configuration.” Nevertheless, Ellison said that he is so confident that this comparison will hold up that he’s launching a new program in which Oracle will pay customers $10 million if a Sun-Oracle configuration isn’t at least twice as fast as a comparable IBM solution. That’s a word…

 

OOW 2009: Oracle and SUN

The opening keynote of Oracle Open World 2009 was presented by Scott McNealy, chairman of SUN Microsystems together with Larry Ellison. They didn’t go into detail, what will happen with the SUN products in detail. But there are some key messages though:

-They did a merger, NO acquisition.

-Innovation is the goal.

-Oracle will put even more money in SUN products than they did themselves.

-Lessons learned from Apple: one vendor to integrate it all.

-Win $10.000.000 with Oracle

OOW 2009: ADF 11g new features in 11gR1 PS1

During Ace Director briefing we saw a presentation on future of ADF 11g done by Duncan Mills. Lucas Jellema has done a great summarize on that over on his AMIS blog:

http://technology.amis.nl/blog/6338/and-they-call-that-a-patch-set-marvels-coming-up-in-adf-11gr1-ps-1#more-6338

OOW 2009: Oracle SOA Suite 11g architecture

Oracle Open World 2009 has opened its doors last Sunday. Yesterday, we saw a great session on architecture of Oracle SOA Suite 11g done by Greg Pavlik and Clemens Utschig-Utschig. Most important takeways are listed here:

-Events get first class citizens in SOA Suite 11g SCA composites. That’s a great abstraction from underlying messaging systems delivering great productivity to the developers. You even can react on events within BPEL processes! Not standard, but highly appreciated feature! Make yourself familiar with the Event Delivery Network (EDN) features.

-SCA: currently, the assembly model of SCA is realized in SOA Suite 11g. A SCA composite can contain BPEL processes, mediator, rules, workflow and events. In the next patch set we will likely see an enhancement to this, going to component model of SCA: We will be able to leverage pure Java code as implementation of a component. This is done by providing the ability to use a Spring context inside a composite, leveraging the features of Spring beans directly without doing outbound service calls. That’s great to see. Rumors even say, that there is work going on to leverage the C language to be used inside a composite, e.g. to integrate directly with Tuxedo.

-Deployment: Is done via ant. Now you have deployment configs allowing to do the staging from dev to test to prod. These configurations are applied during deployment process and best: you have a report saying in detail how the destinations will get configured.

 

  

ADF Enterprise Methodology Group

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