Oracle, at its annual Oracle World conference in San Francisco, announced the availability of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, a component of the company`s Fusion Middleware suite.
"Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is rapidly becoming the standard way for customers to derive added business value from their IT investments and to integrate disparate applications and services," says Amlan Debnath, VP, Server Technologies, Oracle.
The company says this release simplifies critical aspects of SOA deployment and installation. Included are one-click install, an enhanced enterprise service bus (ESB), expanded human workflow capabilities, Web services security and interoperability facilities, and broad capabilities for SOA governance, including a Web services registry and Web services manager.
"As adoption of SOA moves out of the early adopter stage and into the mainstream market, customers are asking for SOA infrastructure components that are easy to install, implement, and manage," comments Brian Erickson, managing VP of Strategic Technology Solutions, Hitachi Consulting.
The multi-protocol ESB can reduce the amount of programming required to connect heterogeneous services and applications in an SOA, says Oracle. The suite`s orchestration component, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, delivers human workflow capabilities that provide a simplified workflow designer and new algorithms for managing complex task routing and escalation.
Oracle says the BPEL Process Manager also includes a new testing framework that automates process testing and service simulation for SOA applications, and a decision service that enables developers to integrate with business rules repositories from Oracle, ILog, and other rules engines from within the BPEL designer.
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