Oracle BPEL 10.1.2.0.2 New Features Summary

Updated: February 2006

Oracle Portal Integration Samples/Framework

Process initiation portlet
Worklist portlet
Report portlet
 

Enhanced Security Support and OWSM Integration (WS-Security)

WS-Security support with partial encryption, digital signatures of messages, certificate-based authentication through OWSM integration.
 
Ability to Set HTTP Authentication Properties Dynamically

The ability to set http authentication values dynamically, on a per-instance basis.
 
Support WS-Addressing 2004

Support WS-Addressing 2003 and 2004. Improved support for WS-Addressing standard.
 
Binary SOAP attachments

Support for both MIME and DIME soap attachments.
 
Added Firefox support for BPEL Console

Eliminate IE requirement in BPEL console for audit trail and debugger. Tested with Firefox on Windows, Linux, Solaris.
 
WSIF bindings for EJBs that take JAXB types as arguments

Support binding to EJBs that take JAXB generated java objects as arguments.
 
BPEL Reports

BPEL Console built-in reports which provide basic process statistics.  See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/htdocs/webinars.html for more info.
 
Bridges to Interconnect, B2B, Oracle Workflow

Ship with product bridges to enable customer to call bi-directionally between BPEL PM and Interconnect, B2B and Oracle Workflow products.
 
Incoming SOAP Header Support

Support accepting and manipulating SOAP headers into a BPEL process. This is needed, for example, to be able to implement the Sabre WS-Security header token services as BPEL processes and also to pass through authentication credentials passed in to a process to the services it calls.
 
Force Dehydration with Checkpoint Function

Provide the ability to force dehydration (checkpoint) to ensure that if a process is restarted, steps are not repeated.
 
Additional Hardware platform support
 
HP-UX 11
AIX Support
 
Additional application server platform support

IBM WebSphere 5.1.1  (currently in beta)
 
Developer Guide Improvements

The Oracle BPEL Process Manager Developer's Guide has been updated with additional tutorials and information about how to use the new 10.1.2.0.2 features.
 
Full support for BPEL annotations
 
Full remote EJB API support for Worklist Services
 
Added new channels in Notification Service
 
Fax
Pager
 
Automated Oracle Internet Directory (OID) configuration for Human Workflow
 
Failover support for Adapter Event Services (inbound notification)

The Adapter Event Services can be deployed as a cluster.  If the primary activation becomes unresponsive, another member of the cluster immediately detects this and the task is reassigned.
 
Enhancement to adapter support for Oracle Applications

Support for XML Gateway
Support for EDI Gateway
Support for Concurrent Programs
Integration with Integration Repository
 
File Adapter now supports synchronous file read operations

The file adapter can synchronously read a file using an invoke activity.
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