Posts Tagged ‘OTN’

Oracle Service Bus article on OTN

The Oracle Service Bus article Eric Elzinga and I wrote is published on Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

The article is aimed at developers and architects who are familiar with Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (OESB) and are (fairly) new to Oracle Service Bus (OSB). The tutorials in this article highlight differences between these two products. The tutorials are based on a workshop in the WAAI community; a collaboration of Dutch consultancies (Whitehorses, Approach, AMIS, and IT-Eye). The goal of the WAAI collaboration is to share, bundle, and expand knowledge on the recent Fusion Middleware 11g release.

Web Services article on OTN

Oracle recently released Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) 11g. OEPE is a certified set of Eclipse plug-ins that is designed to help develop, deploy, and debug applications for Oracle WebLogic Server. I wrote an article on OEPE’s Web Service capabilities, and more specifically its support for the JAX-WS and JAXB standards. The article includes a step-by-step tutorial, explains different approaches to Web Service development, and concludes with several best practices. You can find the article on Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

Custom adapter article on OTN

A while ago someone asked me if you could create your own adapter and use it from Oracle SOA Suite. More specifically if you could create an inbound e-mail adapter (not available out-of-the-box in SOA Suite) that polls for new mail messages and use it as activation agent for starting a BPEL process or ESB flow.

I knew this was possible -at least the possibility was documented- and searched for a how-to. I couldn’t find one explaining all steps involved. However, I did find lots of questions on the OTN forums asking how to achieve this. I thought it would be nice to write an article about it after I got it working. It’s published on OTN.

The article includes a step-by-step tutorial for building the adapter and plugging it into Oracle SOA Suite components such as BPEL PM and ESB. The article also briefly discusses adapter support, offerings, and convergence in future Oracle Fusion Middleware releases that incorporate former BEA products.

Drop me a line if you’re interested in an example for using a outbound adapter instead of an inbound one. I’ll see if I can add such an example in the future.