Oracle SOA Suite FAQ

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Oracle BPEL Process Manager, clustered installation questions of BPEL, ESB and Web Services manager Components.

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Oracle BPEL

1. What is BPEL? How does it relate to Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA)?
2. What is/was the motivation behind BPEL? How does it differ from other/past attempts/technologies aimed at the integration/business process problem? Can you talk briefly about the evolution of BPEL?
3. What is orchestration? What does it mean to build composite applications? Why would anyone want to?
4. What exactly is Oracle BPEL Process Manager? What is it composed of? How does it relate to the rest of the stack?
5. What differentiates BPEL Process Manager from other process integration offerings?
6. Why does/should openness matter to customers? Portability? Interoperability?
7. Why is native BPEL important? What is the disadvantage of products that only import/export BPEL?
8. How will Oracle Business Integration take advantage of BPEL and BPEL Process Manager going forward?
9. How has/is Oracle been involved with the evolution and standardization of the BPEL spec? How does this relate to Oracle's other integration and Web service-related standards efforts?
10. BPEL Process Manager (as well as JDev, ADF, TopLink, etc.) run on any J2EE servers. Why is Oracle so committed to open standards and open interfaces?
11. What version of the BPEL standard is supported by Oracle BPEL Process Manager?
12. How important is .NET compatability? To what extent does BPEL Process Manager support it?
13. BPEL is cross-platform, but is there any advantage to building the underlying services on a J2EE platform? If so, What are they?

Oracle ESB

1. What are the Error types in Oracle ESB?
2. How do you handle faults in Oracle ESB?
3. What are fault handling extensions in Oracle ESB/BPEL?
4. How do you increase the performance of SOA Server?
5. How to call PL/SQL function in oracle ESB?

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