Oracle BPEL Vs. Oracle BPM

Oracle BPEL Vs. Oracle BPM

For the recent project i was comparing the Oracle BPEL and Oracle BPM and thought of sharing the same.
This document is based on my understanding and views not of oracle views.




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Component Metrics are Unavailable for the SOA Composite in EM console - Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Component Metrics are Unavailable for the SOA Composite in EM console - Oracle SOA Suite 11g

I was facing a strange issue with Oracle SOA Suite EM console. Whenever opening the SOA Composite the component metrics are not getting displayed and it is shown as Unavailable.

The issue is only happening in Development environment but it is working fine in all the other environments.
I could not able to find any exception related to this issue in any of the log files.

Unfortunately the Component metrics are getting displayed after refreshing the SOA Composite(from right corner of EM page as shown in the above diagram) from EM console

Deployment plan file to replace the Binding Adapter Properties/Attributes – Oracle SOA Suite

Deployment plan file to replace the Binding Adapter Properties/Attributes – Oracle SOA Suite

The deployment plan file will help us to dynamically replace the Oracle SOA Suite Composite properties.

This post explain the steps to replace the Properties/Attributes of the Direct Binding Adapter in Composite.xml. The same steps can be used to replace the Properties/Attributes of all the Binding Adapters.

Generate the Plan file:

The plan file can be generated through JDeveloper or through ANT script.

Generating Plan file through JDeveloper:

Right Click on Composite.xml and click on generate config Plan.

Change the generated plan file contents accordingly to replace the properties and attributes of the composites. 

Add the required attributes to the corresponding Binding and change the values accordingly(by default the attributes will not be added to the corresponding binding in the plan file) and also change the value of required properties accordingly.

The selected WSDL contain a direct binding but seems to be of the wrong type - Oracle SOA Suite

The selected WSDL contain a direct binding but seems to be of the wrong type - Oracle SOA Suite

You will be receiving the message "The selected WSDL contain a direct binding but seems to be of the wrong type. Looking for Oracle Service Bus type.Please check your WSDL selection" while trying to create the direct binding to invoke the OSB service.

This message says the OSB proxy service is not configured with SB transport.
Configure the OSB Proxy service with the SB transport to invoke the same from SOA composite through Direct Binding.

When looking up the OSB service from JDeveloper SOA Resource Browser, the Proxy will be shown as direct for SB transport services.

Re-Deploying the DBAdapter application - Oracle SOA Suite

Re-Deploying the DBAdapter application - Oracle SOA Suite

Accidentally we have deleted the DBAdapter application from the weblogic server console in Oracle SOA Suite and all the database connection factories created was failing.

This post will explain how to Re-Deploy the Resource Adapter - DBAdapter application and recover the connection factories.

The same steps can be followed to recover any Resource Adapter applications

Steps to redeploy Resource Adapter

• Login to weblogic console
• Go to deployments
• Click on Install 
• Select $Oracle_HOME/soa/connectors as the path and select Dbadapter.rar

• Click on Next

• Click on Next and select the target server

          

Configuring the Oracle Enterprise Repository plugins for Jdeveloper

Configuring the Oracle Enterprise Repository plugins for Jdeveloper

This post explain the steps to configure the Oracle Enterprise Repository Plugins in JDeveloper(JDeveloper version used is 11.1.1.5.0)

In JDeveloper click on Help-->Check For Updates

Select the Oracle Enterprise Repository plugins  as shown below.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository Adapter plugin will help us to access the assets and artifacts available in the Oracle Enterprise Repository .
The Oracle Enterprise Repository Harvester will help us to  harvest a Oracle SOA Suite project to the Oracle Enterprise Repository.

Click on Next and click on Finish

Restart the JDeveloper while prompted

After successful installation of the plugins you can able to to see the "Oracle Enterprise Repository Connection" as new connection type  and also right clicking the SOA project we can see "Submit Project To Enterprise Repository" and right clicking the files(XSD, WSDL) we can see "Submit File To Enterprise Repository"

WLST script to Enable/Disable the debug flags in Weblogic Server

WLST script to Enable/Disable the debug flags in Weblogic Server

This tutorial explains the approach to enable/disable the debug flags in Weblogic Server.

The Debugging flags will help us to enable/disable the debugging for different modules in weblogic.

The flags can be enabled/disabled in different ways

Admin Console

Access admin console — http://localhost:7001/console
Navigate to Environment →Servers → <<Server>> → Debug

Select the required flags and click on Enable/Disable.

WLST Script

The below WLST script enable the Debug Flag ‘DebugSSL’ for configured servers

EnableORDisableDFlags.properties

serverflagconfigs=AdminServer=DebugSSL:false,MS1=DebugSSL:true


EnableORDisableDFlags.py

import re
from java.io import FileInputStreamdef EnableORDisableDFlags(): edit()
 startEdit()
 propInputStream = FileInputStream('EnableORDisableDFlags.properties')
 configProps = Properties()
 configProps.load(propInputStream)  
 
 serverflagconfigs = re.split(",",configProps.get("serverflagconfigs"))
 print serverflagconfigs
 
 for serverConfig in serverflagconfigs: 
 
   serverName=re.split("=",serverConfig)[0]
   config=re.split("=",serverConfig)[1]
   print config
   cd('/Servers/'+serverName+'/ServerDebug/'+serverName)
   flagName=re.split(":",config)[0]
   flagValue=re.split(":",config)[1]
   set(flagName,flagValue)
   print 'Modified the DFlag for '+serverName+' '+ flagName+':'+flagValue
 save()
 activate()  
   
  
def main():
    adminURL='t3://localhost:7001'
    adminUserName='weblogic'
    adminPassword='weblogic1'
    connect(adminUserName, adminPassword, adminURL)
    EnableORDisableDFlags();
    print 'Successfully Modified the DFlags'
    disconnect()
main()

Script -
https://github.com/techforum-repo/youttubedata/tree/master/scripts/wlst/EnableORDisableDFlags

Before executing the script, change the configurations as required.

Execute the script — <<Oracle_Home>>\oracle_common\common\bin\wlst.cmd EnableORDisableDFlags.py

Now the DebugFlag is Enabled/Disabled based on the configurations

JVM start arguments

The debug flags can be enabled/disabled through server start up arguments

Add the flags with -D to the server start up arguments through console Environment →Servers →<<Server>> →Server Start

-Dweblogic.debug.DebugSSL=false

Other option is add the debug flags to the start up file startWebLogic.cmd/startWebLogic.sh or startManagedWebLogic.cmd/startManagedWebLogic.sh based on which file is used to start the server.

e.g.

JAVA_OPTIONS=”${JAVA_OPTIONS} -Dweblogic.debug.DebugSSL=true

The changes will take effect after restarting the server

Debug flags for the Reference

DebugAbbreviation
DebugAppContainer
DebugAsyncQueue
DebugBootstrapServlet
DebugClassRedef
DebugClassSize
DebugCluster
DebugClusterAnnouncements
DebugClusterFragments
DebugClusterHeartbeats
DebugConfigurationEdit
DebugConfigurationRuntime
DebugConnection
DebugConsensusLeasing
DebugDGCEnrollment
DebugDRSCalls
DebugDRSHeartbeats
DebugDRSMessages
DebugDRSQueues
DebugDRSStateTransitions
DebugDRSUpdateStatus
DebugDeploy
DebugDeployment
DebugDeploymentService
DebugDeploymentServiceInternal
DebugDeploymentServiceStatusUpdates
DebugDeploymentServiceTransport
DebugDeploymentServiceTransportHttp
DebugDescriptor
DebugDiagnosticAccessor
DebugDiagnosticArchive
DebugDiagnosticArchiveRetirement
DebugDiagnosticCollections
DebugDiagnosticContext
DebugDiagnosticDataGathering
DebugDiagnosticFileArchive
DebugDiagnosticImage
DebugDiagnosticInstrumentation
DebugDiagnosticInstrumentationActions
DebugDiagnosticInstrumentationConfig
DebugDiagnosticInstrumentationEvents
DebugDiagnosticInstrumentationWeaving
DebugDiagnosticInstrumentationWeavingMatches
DebugDiagnosticJdbcArchive
DebugDiagnosticLifecycleHandlers
DebugDiagnosticQuery
DebugDiagnosticWatch
DebugDiagnosticWlstoreArchive
DebugDiagnosticsHarvester
DebugDiagnosticsHarvesterData
DebugDiagnosticsHarvesterMBeanPlugin
DebugDiagnosticsHarvesterTreeBeanPlugin
DebugDiagnosticsModule
DebugDomainLogHandler
DebugEjbCaching

DebugEjbCmpDeployment
DebugEjbCmpRuntime
DebugEjbCompilation
DebugEjbDeployment
DebugEjbInvoke
DebugEjbLocking
DebugEjbMdbConnection
DebugEjbPooling
DebugEjbSecurity
DebugEjbSwapping
DebugEjbTimers
DebugEmbeddedLDAP
DebugEmbeddedLDAPLogToConsole
DebugEmbeddedLDAPWriteOverrideProps
DebugEventManager
DebugFailOver
DebugFileDistributionServlet
DebugHttp
DebugHttpLogging
DebugHttpSessions
DebugIIOP
DebugIIOPConnection
DebugIIOPMarshal
DebugIIOPNaming
DebugIIOPOTS
DebugIIOPReplacer
DebugIIOPSecurity
DebugIIOPStartup
DebugIIOPTransport
DebugIIOPTunneling
DebugJ2EEManagement
DebugJAXPIncludeClass
DebugJAXPIncludeLocation
DebugJAXPIncludeName
DebugJAXPIncludeTime
DebugJAXPUseShortClass
DebugJDBCConn
DebugJDBCDriverLogging
DebugJDBCInternal
DebugJDBCONS
DebugJDBCRAC
DebugJDBCRMI
DebugJDBCSQL
DebugJMSAME
DebugJMSBackEnd
DebugJMSBoot
DebugJMSCDS
DebugJMSCommon
DebugJMSConfig
DebugJMSDispatcher
DebugJMSDistTopic
DebugJMSDurableSubscribers
DebugJMSFrontEnd
DebugJMSJDBCScavengeOnFlush
DebugJMSLocking
DebugJMSMessagePath
DebugJMSModule
DebugJMSPauseResume
DebugJMSSAF
DebugJMSStore
DebugJMST3Server
DebugJMSWrappers

DebugJMSXA
DebugJMX
DebugJMXCompatibility
DebugJMXCore
DebugJMXDomain
DebugJMXEdit
DebugJMXRuntime
DebugJNDI
DebugJNDIFactories
DebugJNDIResolution
DebugJTA2PC
DebugJTA2PCStackTrace
DebugJTAAPI
DebugJTAGateway
DebugJTAGatewayStackTrace
DebugJTAHealth
DebugJTAJDBC
DebugJTALLR
DebugJTALifecycle
DebugJTAMigration
DebugJTANaming
DebugJTANamingStackTrace
DebugJTANonXA
DebugJTAPropagate
DebugJTARMI
DebugJTARecovery
DebugJTARecoveryStackTrace
DebugJTAResourceHealth
DebugJTATLOG
DebugJTAXA
DebugJTAXAStackTrace
DebugJpaDataCache
DebugJpaEnhance
DebugJpaJdbcJdbc
DebugJpaJdbcSchema
DebugJpaJdbcSql
DebugJpaManage
DebugJpaMetaData
DebugJpaProfile
DebugJpaQuery
DebugJpaRuntime
DebugJpaTool
DebugLeaderElection
DebugLibraries
DebugLoadBalancing
DebugLoggingConfiguration
DebugMessaging
DebugMessagingBridgeRuntime
DebugMessagingBridgeRuntimeVerbose
DebugMessagingBridgeStartup
DebugMessagingKernel
DebugMessagingKernelBoot
DebugMuxer
DebugMuxerConnection
DebugMuxerDetail
DebugMuxerException
DebugMuxerTimeout
DebugPathSvc
DebugPathSvcVerbose
DebugRA
DebugRAClassloader
DebugRAConnEvents

DebugRAConnections
DebugRADeployment
DebugRALifecycle
DebugRALocalOut
DebugRAParsing
DebugRAPoolVerbose
DebugRAPooling
DebugRASecurityCtx
DebugRAWork
DebugRAWorkEvents
DebugRAXAin
DebugRAXAout
DebugRAXAwork
DebugRC4
DebugRSA
DebugReplication
DebugReplicationDetails
DebugRouting
DebugSAFAdmin
DebugSAFLifeCycle
DebugSAFManager
DebugSAFMessagePath
DebugSAFReceivingAgent
DebugSAFSendingAgent
DebugSAFStore
DebugSAFTransport
DebugSAFVerbose
DebugSNMPAgent
DebugSNMPExtensionProvider
DebugSNMPProtocolTCP
DebugSNMPToolkit
DebugSSL
DebugScaContainer
DebugSecurityAdjudicator
DebugSecurityAtn
DebugSecurityAtz
DebugSecurityAuditor
DebugSecurityCertPath
DebugSecurityCredMap
DebugSecurityEEngine
DebugSecurityEncryptionService
DebugSecurityJACC
DebugSecurityJACCNonPolicy
DebugSecurityJACCPolicy
DebugSecurityKeyStore
DebugSecurityPasswordPolicy
DebugSecurityPredicate
DebugSecurityRealm
DebugSecurityRoleMap
DebugSecuritySAML2Atn
DebugSecuritySAML2CredMap
DebugSecuritySAML2Lib
DebugSecuritySAML2Service
DebugSecuritySAMLAtn
DebugSecuritySAMLCredMap
DebugSecuritySAMLLib
DebugSecuritySAMLService
DebugSecuritySSL
DebugSecuritySSLEaten
DebugSecurityService
DebugSecurityUserLockout
DebugSelfTuning
DebugServerLifeCycle
DebugServerMigration
DebugServerStartStatistics
DebugStoreAdmin
DebugStoreIOLogical
DebugStoreIOLogicalBoot
DebugStoreIOPhysical
DebugStoreIOPhysicalVerbose
DebugStoreXA
DebugStoreXAVerbose
DebugTunnelingConnection
DebugTunnelingConnectionTimeout
DebugURLResolution
DebugWANReplicationDetails
DebugWTCConfig
DebugWTCCorbaEx
DebugWTCGwtEx
DebugWTCJatmiEx
DebugWTCTDomPdu
DebugWTCUData
DebugWTCtBridgeEx
DebugWebAppIdentityAssertion
DebugWebAppModule
DebugWebAppSecurity
DebugWorkContext
DebugXMLEntityCacheIncludeClass
DebugXMLEntityCacheIncludeLocation
DebugXMLEntityCacheIncludeName
DebugXMLEntityCacheIncludeTime
DebugXMLEntityCacheUseShortClass
DebugXMLRegistryIncludeClass
DebugXMLRegistryIncludeLocation
DebugXMLRegistryIncludeName
DebugXMLRegistryIncludeTime
DebugXMLRegistryUseShortClass