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Finally PS5 for the full Fusion Middleware stack is available. We are very keen to know your feedback – make sure you send us your feedback at http://twitter.com/soacommunity @soacommunity or by e-mail to Juergen.Kress@oracle.com

The day before the release, I had the opportunity to talk to Michael Weingartner Vice President of Development. My first question to him was the reason for the PS5 delay. He clearly answerd that Fusion Applications is based on Fusion Middleware. Our 5000+ Fusion Applications developers tested PS5 in the last few weeks and requested enhancements. Fusion Applications increases the product quality and maturity for our partners and customers. You as a system integrator can use the same fusion middleware solutions to build and customize your applications. You can get benefit from a complete middleware stack which is reliable and scalable!

SOA PS5 resources

• SOA Suite PS5 (11.1.1.6) available for download
• Documentation 11gR1 (11.1.1.6.0)
• What's New
• Known Issues
• What's New in Oracle Service Bus 11.1.1.6.0

BPM PS5 resrouces

• BPM Suite PS5 1(1.1.1.6) available for download
• Documentation 11gR1 (11.1.1.6.0)
• What's new in BPM 11.1.1.6.0
• Known Issues

Your Community PS5 Feedback

• Lucas Jellema Fusion Middleware 11gR1 – Patch Set 5 is available (at last) – First impressions
• Laurens van der Starre A few quick tips for upgrading OFM 11g to patch set 5
• Niall Commiskey Installing BPM 11g PS5 using XE - MDS packages error & Installing OSB 11.1.1.6 (PS5) on Windows 7
• Edwin Biemond Changing your ADF Connections in Enterprise Manager with PS5

Thanks for sending us your excellent feedback – Let's keep it going at http://twitter.com/soacommunity @soacommunity #PS5:

MarcHUGE (!) CPU and Heap improvement on Oracle Fusion Middleware tinyurl.com/762drzp @wlscommunity @soacommunity #OSB #SOA #WLS	Lucas JellemaModifying running BPM Process instances (FMW 11gR1 PS5): docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01
Steffen MillerNice new features in SOA Suite Business Rules #PS5 Testing rules with scenarios and output validation bit.ly/zj64Q3 @SOACOMMUNITY	BiemondChanging your ADF Connections in Enterprise Manager with PS5: With Patch Set 5 of Fusion Middleware you can fina. bit.ly/zF7Rb1
Lucas JellemaSOA Suite 11gR1 PS5 - new aggregation pattern: docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/d routing multiple messages to same instance	Lucas JellemaWhat's New in Fusion Developer's Guide 11gR1 PS5: docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01
Simone GeibYou're welcome. New features in PS5 coming up soon too! RT @soacommunity: thanks to @SOASimone for the SOA #PS5 OTN side update.	Cato AuneSOA suite PS5 Enterprise Deployment Guide is available in ePub docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01 Much better than pdf on Galaxy Note
Marc: Reading through the #OFM 11.1.1.6 , patchset 5 documentation. What is the best way to upgrade your whole dev...prd street.	Lucas JellemaPS5 available for CEP (Complex Event Processing) - a personal favorite of mine : oracle.com/technetwork/mi
Melvin van der KuijlAutomatic Testing of SOA Composite Applications in PS5. docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943	Jon petter hjulstadSOA Suite PS5 EDG contains OSB! docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01
Lucas Jellema BPMN Correlation (FMW 11gR1 PS5): docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943

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What is an Information Center (IC)?
Information Centers are meant to be your product landing page on My Oracle Support to see what's new, find useful links and hopefully avoid issues. They are specialized documents in our Knowledge Base that aggregate and organize the latest and most relevant information for a product or topic. Each IC is made up of labeled subsections that display a list of content items. Some of these subsections are dynamic, automatically picking up new content and dropping aged documents, while others are statically populated. In either case we do our best to keep all of the content up to date.

Information Centers are product centric and grouped as such. There will be an Overview IC for the product and a menu containing the associated IC's such as 'Troubleshoot' and 'Install and Configure'. These documents are handled as a group and ultimately each product should have it's own group of IC's.

What are the Available SOA Information Centers?
The SOA Information Centers are organized in a hierarchical fashion starting with 'Service Oriented Architecture' at the top. We currently have only a subset of the products covered but will be publishing additional IC's soon. We have tried to make the navigation between IC's intuitive and simple.

These SOA IC's are currently available:

• Service Oriented Architecture
• Oracle SOA Suite 11g: Troubleshoot & Install and Configure & Optimize Performance
• Oracle BPEL Process Manager 11g: Use & Troubleshoot & Install and Configure & Certify
• Adapters: Use & Troubleshoot & Upgrade
• Oracle Service Bus Use & Troubleshoot & Patch and Maintenance & Install and Configure & Upgrade & Certify & Optimize Performance

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Please be informed that effectively immediately the business criteria requirements decreased. A company now needs one customer reference and one transaction to meet the business criteria. Access the Oracle Unified Business Process Management Specialization Criteria for details! Effective from March the 1st 2012, the Oracle General Support Specialist accreditation expired. Partners will no longer receive credit towards the specialization using the above accreditation. They should pass the Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g Support Specialist.

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SOA CommunitySOA Community Newsletter February 2012 wp.me/p10C8u-o0	SOA CommunityReplyBPM Suite #PS5 (11.1.1.6) available for download soacommunity.wordpress.com/2012/02 Send us your feedback! #soacommunity #bpmsuite #opn
SOA Community SOA Suite #PS5 (11.1.1.6) available for download soacommunity.wordpress.com/2012/02 Send us your feedback! #soacommunity #soasuite	Marc Reading through the #OFM 11.1.1.6 , patchset 5 documentation. What is the best way to upgrade your whole dev.prd street.
SOA CommunityThanks for the successful and super interesting #sbidays! Wonderful discussions around the Integration, case management and security tracks	SOA Community BPM Suite #PS5 1(1.1.1.6) available for download. List of new BPM features blogs.oracle.com/soacommunity/e #soacommunity #bpm #bpmsuite #opn
Torsten Winterberg Schon den neuen Opitz Technology-Blog gebookmarked? The Cattle Crew bit.ly/yLPwBD wird ab sofort regelmäßig Erkenntnisse posten.	OracleBlogs BPM in Utilties Industry ow.ly/1hC3fp Retweeted by SOA Community
OTNArchBeat Unit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI | @DanielAmadei bit.ly/x9NsS9	OTNArchBeat Demystifying Oracle Enterprise Gateway | Naresh Persaud bit.ly/xtDNe2
Rolando CarrascoVideo de Human Task en BPM 11g. Por @edwardo040. bit.ly/wki9CA cc @OracleBPM @OracleSOA @soacommunity View video	OTNArchBeat Architect's Guide to Big Data; Test BPEL Processes Using SoapUI; Development Debate bit.ly/xbDYSo
Marcel MertinSOA Security Hands-On by Dirk Krafzig and Mamoon Yunus at #sbidays is also great!	Frank Nimphius Finished my book review of "Do More with SOA Integration: Best of Packt ". Here are my review comments: bit.ly/x2k9OZ
SOA CommunityWorkshop day #sbidays #BPMN2.0 by Volker Stiehl from #SAP great training - now I can model & execute in #bpmsuite #soacommunity	Lucas Jellema That is my one stop-and-go download center for #PS5: edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/g
Simone Geib Just updated our advanced #soasuite #otn page with a number of very interesting @orclateamsoa blog posts: bit.ly/advancedsoasu	Lucas Jellema Interesting piece of documentation: Fusion Applications Extensibility Guide docs.oracle.com/cd/E15586_01/f source for design time @ run time inspira
OTNArchBeatStart Small, Grow Fast: SOA Best Practices article by @biemond, @rluttikhuizen, @demed bit.ly/yem9Zv	Lucas Jellema Strongly improved support for testing Business Rules at Design Time in #PS5 see docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/u
Steffen Miller Nice new features in SOA Suite Business Rules #PS5 Testing rules with scenarios and output validation bit.ly/zj64Q3 @SOACOMMUNITY	Lucas Jellema SOA Suite 11gR1 PS5: new BPEL Component testing docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/d
OTNArchBeat ReplySOA Blackbelt training by David Shaffer, April 30th–May 4th 2012 bit.ly/xGdC24	Lucas JellemaPS5 available for CEP (Complex Event Processing) - a personal favorite of mine : oracle.com/technetwork/mi
OTNArchBeat What have BPM, big data, social tools, and business models got in common? | Andy Mulholland bit.ly/xUkOGf	Lucas JellemaWhat's New in Fusion Developer's Guide 11gR1 PS5: docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/w
SOA Community Live hacking at #sbidays - cheaper shopping, bias cracking, payment systems, secure your SOA! pic.twitter.com/y7YaIdug	Lucas JellemaBPMN Correlation (FMW 11gR1 PS5): docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01
SOA CommunityFuture #BPM & #ACM solutions can make use of ontology's, based on #sqarql #sbidays pic.twitter.com/xLb1Z5zs	Lucas JellemaModifying running BPM Process instances (FMW 11gR1 PS5): docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01
Simone Geib @soacommunity: SOA Blackbelt training by David Shaffer, April 30th May 4th 2012 wp.me/p10C8u-nX	Lucas JellemaSOA Suite 11gR1 PS5 - new aggregation pattern: docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01 routing multiple messages to same instance
BiemondChanging your ADF Connections in Enterprise Manager with PS5: With Patch Set 5 of Fusion Middleware you can fina bit.ly/zF7Rb1	Melvin van der KuijlAutomating Testing of SOA Composite Applications in PS5. docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01
MarcHUGE (!) CPU and Heap improvement on Oracle Fusion Middleware tinyurl.com/762drzp @wlscommunity @soacommunity #OSB #SOA #WLS	Cato AuneSOA suite PS5 Enterprise Deployment Guide is available in ePub docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01 Much better than pdf on Galaxy Note
SOA CommunityNetworking @ SOA & BPM Partner Community blogs.oracle.com/soacommunity/e #soacommunity #otn #opn #oracle	SOA Community JDeveloper 11.1.1.6 is available for download bit.ly/wGYrwE #soacommunity
SOA CommunityPublished the SOA Partner Community newsletter February edition - READ it. Not yet a member? oracle.com/goto/emea/soa #soacommunity #otn #opn	SOA CommunityYour first experience #PS5 - let us know @soacommunity - send us your tweets and blog posts! #soacommunity
AMIS, Oracle & JavaBlog by Lucas Jellema: "Book Review: Do More with SOA Integration: Best of Packt (december 2011, various authors)" bit.ly/wq633E	Jon petter hjulstadWLS 10.3.6 New features, ex better logging of jdbc use: docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/w
Jon petter hjulstad @SOASimone Excellent summary! Lots of new features!	Heidi BuelowGet it now! RT @soacommunity: BPM Suite PS5 11.1.1.6 available for download bit.ly/AgagT5 #bpm #soacommunity
Simone GeibDo you want to know what's new in #soasuite #PS5? Go to bit.ly/xBX06f and let me know what you think	Jon petter hjulstadSOA Suite PS5 EDG contains OSB! docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/c
SOA CommunityUnit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI oracle.com/technetwork/ar #soacommunity #soa #otn #oracle #bpel view media Retweeted by SOA Community	Jon petter hjulstadTesting Oracle Rules from JDeveloper is easier in PS5: docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/u
Eric ElzingaOracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum Malage, The Overview, bit.ly/AA9BKd #ofmforum	Biemond®What's New in Oracle Service Bus 11.1.1.6.0 oracle.com/technetwork/mi
SOA&Cloud SymposiumThe February issue of the Service Technology Magazine is now published. servicetechmag.com	Jon petter hjulstadAdminguide New and Changed Features for PS5, ex GridLink data sources: docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/c Retweeted by SOA Community
SOA CommunityOracle SOA Suite 11g Database Growth Management - must read! oracle.com/technetwork/d #soacommunity #soa #purging	Andreas KoopUnbelievable! #OFM Doc Lib growth from 11gPS4->11gPS5 by 1.2G! View media
demedHave you exposed internal processes to mobile devices using #oraclesoa? Interested in an article? DM me! #osb #rest #multichannel #mobile R	SOA CommunityODI PS5 is available oracle.com/technetwork/mi #odi #soacommunity 22 Feb View media
orclateamsoa A-Team SOA Blog: Enhanced version of Thread Dump Analyzer (TDA A-Team) ow.ly/1hpk7l	SOA CommunityService Bus 11g Development Cookbook soacommunity.wordpress.com #soacommunity #ace #opn View media

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• Analyzing Thread Dumps in Middleware:
  Sabha Parameswaran explains how to analyze Thread dumps, for improving Middleware Performance (at App Server or Application level) as well as for general troubleshooting. he also goes into details of WebLogic Application Server specific Thread Dump Analysis and fine tuning. Feb-2012
• Unit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI Thanks to its support for Mocking and WS-Addressing, soapUI can be used to test asynchronous BPEL processes. Daniel Amadei shows you how. Feb-201
• Oracle Ads now available for Customization: The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized program continues to deliver program elements that give our partner's the differentiation and competitive edge they need. Now for the first time, Oracle PartnerNetwork Diamond and Platinum level Specialized Partners, can customize Oracle advertisements. Learn more.
• NEW White paper: Oracle BPM 10g Performance tuning (PDF)
• Oracle Enterprise Gateway 11.1.1.6 --> Scripting A big thank you to MartinM for his input here! & Demystifying Oracle Enterprise Gateway

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The SOASchool.com - SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) program is dedicated to excellence in the field of SOA and service-oriented computing. Through a series of seasoned course modules and exams, IT professionals have the opportunity to obtain a number of different certifications to recognize their accomplishment of gaining "project ready" SOA proficiency. This comprehensive and strictly vendor-neutral program was developed in cooperation with best-selling SOA author Thomas Erl and several major SOA organizations and academic institutions. Through the involvement of the SOA Education Committee, course contents and certification requirements are constantly reviewed and revised to stay current with developments in the service-oriented computing industry. The program is currently comprised of 12 course modules and 5 certifications and is expanding to 18 course modules and 8 certifications throughout 2009. For more information, visit www.soaschool.com and www.soacp.com.

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