Last week the Oracle Fusion Middleware summer camps took place in Lisbon. More than 100 participants attended the event, learning much new stuff about new features and enhancements, arriving with the recently available FMW 12c release. In four parallel tracks the highlights of the new major release were presented to the attendees; hands-on labs allows to get a first impression regarding the new platform features and the markedly increased productivity delivered by the enhanced, consolidated tooling.

The four tracks had different focuses, regarding the new features of the 12c release of Oracle Middleware platform:

  • SOA 12c – focusing on application integration, including Oracle Managed File Transfer (MFT), and fast data with Oracle Event Processing (OEP)
  • BPM 12c – focusing on Business Process Management, the new enhanced Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Adaptive Case Management (ACM)
  • SOA/BPM 12c (Fast track) – Combined track, covering the most important enhancements and concepts with reference to SOA and BPM 12c
  • Mobile Application Framework (MAF) Hackathon – Development of mobile applications using the newly released MAF (formerly known as ADF mobile)

The main topics addressed by the new OFM 12c release are:

  • Cloud integration
  • Mobile integration
  • Developer’s performance
  • Industrial SOA

Cloud integration

Integrating Cloud solutions in grown IT system landscapes is complex. With SOA Suite 12c, Oracle provides a coherent and simple approach for integrating enterprise applications with existing cloud solutions. Therefore new  JCA-based cloud adapters, e..g. for integrating with Salesforce, as well as a Cloud SDK are available. Service Bus might be used in this context to care about transformation, routing and forms the backbone of a future-oriented, flexible as well as scalable cloud application architecture.

Mobile integration

Mobile-enablement of enterprise applications is a key requirement and a necessity for application acceptance today. The new JCA REST adapter can be used to easily REST-enable existing applications. In combination with Oracle MAF and Service Bus, Oracle provides a complete Mobile Suite, where seamless development of new mobile innovations can be done.

Developer’s performance

To enhance development performance, the new SOA and BPM Quickinstalls are introduced. Using those allows the developers to have a complete SOA or BPM environment installed in 15 minutes (see the blog post of my colleague). Furthermore new debugging possibilities, different templating mechanisms (SOA project templates, Custom activity templates, BPEL subprocesses and Service Bus pipeline Templates) as well as JDeveloper as the single and only IDE deliver a maximum good development experience.

Industrial SOA

Industrializing SOA is a main goal, when starting with a SOA initiative: Transparent monitoring and management and a robust, scalable and performant platform are key to successfully implementing SOA-based applications and architectures. These points are addressed by the new OFM 12c release through the following features:

  • Lazy Composite Loading – Composites will be loaded on demand and not at platform startup
  • Modular Profiles – Different profiles provided, which enables only the features currently needed (e.g. only BPEL)
  • Improved Error Hospital and Error Handling
  • Optimized Dehydration behaviour
  • Integrated Enterprise Scheduler (ESS)

Further main enhancements that where introduced regarding SOA and BPM Suite 12c were:

  • Oracle BPM Suite 12c: Definition of Business Architecture, including definition of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Key Risk Indicators (KRI) to provide an integral overview from a high-level perspective; ACM enhancements in the direction of predictive analytics
  • Oralce BAM 12c: Completly re-implemented in ADF, allows operational analytics based on the defined KPIs and KRIs
  • Oracle MFT: Managed File Transfer solution for transferring big files from a specified source to a defined target; integration with SOA/BPM Suite 12c can be done by new JCA-based MFT adapters

Looking back,  a great and very interesting week lays behind me, providing a bunch of new ideas and impressions on the new Fusion Middleware 12c release. I’m looking forward to use some of this great new stuff soon, in real world’s projects.

Special thanks to Jürgen Kress for the excellent organization of the event! I’m already looking forward for next SOA Community event…

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Sven Bernhardt is a technology enthusiast and works for OPITZ CONSULTING as Chief Architect as part of the Corporate Development team. Within his role, he’s responsible for managing the technology portfolio and developing Best Practices and Guidelines. In addition, Sven supports his colleagues with implementing Software solutions for Customers. Sven acts as regular speaker on various conferences, talking about technology or architecture topics, and is also sharing his thoughts and experiences by writing articles and blog posts. In addition, he's Kong Champion and Oracle ACE Pro.

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