Architect Center: SOA Integration

SOA Integration provides a flexible and dynamic IT Infrastructure that transforms brittle systems, applications and data sources into highly flexible, reusable service components. The resources offered here cover a wide range of integration topics, including business process management (BPM), the service bus, and data services.

Blog: Architect's Dictionary (SOA Thinker)
Author Jeff Davies does his part to improve communication on essential concepts in IT architecture.
posted Oct 6, 2008

Blog: SCA to eliminate "over-servicing"
The great thing about the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard -on which Oracle SOA Suite 11g is based- is that you do not need to expose low-level mediator services and adapter functionality as a separate external service.
posted Sep 11, 2008

Blog: Next Generation Design Environments for Enterprise Data Architectures (Data Integration)
The Declarative Design approach offers a new paradigm that will make the definition of the data integration strategy flexible enough so that the 13th hour changes will only last minutes versus days.
posted Sep 9, 2008

Technical Article: Transforming BPMN into BPEL: Why and How
When transforming a BPMN model into an executable BPEL process, it's important to keep the semantic differences between BPMN and BPEL in mind.
posted Sep 2, 2008

Blog: Sizing an OWB system... (Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Weblog)
So, lets say we are trying to set up an OWB system, which may be a DW or Data mart. What hardware do we run this on so that we get some half decent performance? Good question.
posted Aug 27, 2008

Back by Popular Demand: SOA Hands-on Labs at Oracle Develop 2008
Learn how to create a BPEL process that integrates with Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft, Siebel and JD Edwards using native Web services in these popular hands-on labs at Oracle Develop (running concurrently with OpenWorld). No prior knowledge of BPEL or J2EE required.
posted Aug 20, 2008