23.8.06

Oracle SOA Suite Preview Available for Download- From Reynold's blog

Oracle SOA Suite Preview Available for Download: "SOA Suite 10.1.3.1 on OTN SOA Suite 10.1.3.1 has finally been posted to OTN. This is the release I have been playing with for the last couple of months and includes the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as well as several other key components. The following diagram is taken from the QuickStart Guide and provides a view of the components. SOA Suite is built on top of an J2EE Application Server (preview only supports Oracle Application Server but components will run on other App Servers later) which provides web services support, event services and access to the Java Enterprise environment. Sitting on top of this are the following components BPEL Process Manager This has a much improved workflow component. Workflow is now a true service configured via XML, which means that the wizard can and has been made re-entrant (you can now change workflows by altering your choices in the wizard). To me this is one of the biggest improvements. A lot of other areas of BPEL PM have been improved in this release and I will cover some of them in a futur"