Configurable Properties and Reference Binding for Oracle JCA adapters 11g

If you would like to know what are all the configurable properties and reference binding for oracle JCA adapters 11g

Please refer this document:

Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

Section: 33 Configuring Service and Reference Binding Components


Source: Oracle Documentation. OTN.

This included, but not limited to, configuration properties for: DB adapter, File Adapter, FTP Adapter, AQ Adapter, MQ Series Adapter, Oracle Socket Adapter, Oracle JCA Adapters Endpoint Properties.

Difference between Sync and Async BPEL process -- Well explained.

This below blog contains all the essential to differentiate or understand the differences between the Sync and Asyn BPEL process.

Difference between Sync and Async BPEL process - anindyabhattacharjee

Well explained Anindya. Hats off.....

Just for quick reference and to find the differences: if you look in to the source code of the .BPEL file you will find the following respective to the to different BPEL process:

Async BPEL process will contain:  Receive and Invoke for the call back.

 <sequence name="main">
        <!-- Receive input from requestor. (Note: This maps to operation defined in BPELProcess1_Async.wsdl) -->
        <receive name="receiveInput" partnerLink="bpelprocess1_async_client" portType="client:BPELProcess1_Async" operation="process" variable="inputVariable" createInstance="yes"/>
        <!--
          Asynchronous callback to the requester. (Note: the callback location and correlation id is transparently handled using WS-addressing.)
        -->
        <invoke name="callbackClient" partnerLink="bpelprocess1_async_client" portType="client:BPELProcess1_AsyncCallback" operation="processResponse" inputVariable="outputVariable"/>
    </sequence>

Sync BPEL process will contain: Receive and a Reply.

  <sequence name="main">
    <!-- Receive input from requestor. (Note: This maps to operation defined in Sync_realSync.wsdl) -->
    <receive name="receiveInput" partnerLink="sync_realsync_client" portType="client:Sync_realSync" operation="process" variable="inputVariable" createInstance="yes"/>
    <!-- Generate reply to synchronous request -->
    <reply name="replyOutput" partnerLink="sync_realsync_client" portType="client:Sync_realSync" operation="process" variable="outputVariable"/>
  </sequence> 

How To Configure a Read Only or Read & Deployment Only or Restricted User For Oracle SOA 11g Enterprise Manager Console

If you  would like to create or configure a user, Who only has read and deploy composites permissions (Restricted Access) in EM console please do the following:

Access to the Enterprise Manager console is determined by the role assigned to the user. See Appendix C.1 Roles and Privileges in:

Document Reference: Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0) - Part Number E10226-06

Section: C.1.1 Overall Role Functionality Matrix

For a description of the roles defined and the access granted to each role.

Steps to configure the roles described in the document document: (In this case we assign the Monitor role to the user created)

1.  Log in to the Weblogic console.
2. Click on Security Realms -> the name of the realm (myRealm is the default) -> Users and Groups.
3. Click on New to create a new user.
4. Click on the name of the user just created, then Groups and move Monitors from the list on the left to the right. Click Save.
5. Now log in to the Enterprise Manager console with admin privileges, open the SOA folder and right-click on soa-infra and select Security -> Application Roles.
6. Leave the search text empty and click on search button. This will give you a list of all Application Roles.
7. Click on SOAMonitor role to edit it.
8. Scroll down and click on add user. Click on the search button, and a list of available users will be populated. You should see the user just created on the Weblogic console. Move the user to the right and click OK and OK again.
9. Log out, then log in with the user just created.

Additional Info: If you are keen in learning about the roles and their restrictions on weblogic server console please refer:


Document: Oracle® Fusion Middleware Securing Resources Using Roles and Policies for Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.4) - Part Number E13747-04
Section: 6 Users, Groups, And Security Roles

Oracle SOA JMS Adapter Tuning - Number of Inbound Threads

To improve performance, the adapter.jms.receive.threads property can be tuned for an adapter service. The default value is 1, but multiple inbound threads can be used to improve performance. When specified, the value of adapter.jms.receive.threads is used to spawn multiple inbound poller threads.


For example:

<service name="dequeue" ui:wsdlLocation="dequeue.wsdl">
<interface.wsdl interface="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/jms/textmessageusingqueues/textmessageusingqueues/dequeue%2F#wsdl.interface(Consume_Message_ptt)"/>
<binding.jca config="dequeue_jms.jca">
<property name="adapter.jms.receive.threads" type="xs:string" many="false">10</property>
</binding.jca">
</service>

These setting need to be done in 10g - BPEL.xml or 11g Composite.xml


In this case  there will be 10 concurrently processing threads.

How can I throttle (Frequency) inbound message flow 10g and 11g- For Adapters Like JMS, File, AQ.

There is an activation agent (bpel.xml) property (since 10.1.3.1), which can be used to control the speed at which the adapter posts messages to BPEL

 ...
    <activationAgents>
         <activationAgent partnerLink="JmsDequeuePL" ... >
           <property name="minimumDelayBetweenMessages">1000</property>
       </activationAgent>
    </activationAgents>
  </BPELProcess>
</BPELSuitcase>

The same setting in 11G would be configured as a binding property in the composite.xml the corresponding (inbound) <service>, e.g.

<service name="Inbound">

  <interface.wsdl interface="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/demo1#wsdl.interface(SampleInbound_PortType)"/>

  <binding.jca config="Dequeue_jms.jca">

    <property name="minimumDelayBetweenMessages">1000</property>

  </binding.jca>

</service

 

 This setting ensures that there at least will be 1000 milli seconds delay between two consecutive messages being posted to the BPEL process.

Note: This setting pertains only to BPEL, and only to one adapter polling thread. If multiple adapter polling threads (e.g. multiple JMS dequeuer threads) have been configured, this setting will control the speed of each thread, not the combined speed.

Siteminder sso cookie does not clear once the App is logged out.

The issue:

If you have setup siteminder sso with oracle fusion middleware.
The fusion middleware application comes with Oracle B2B and Worklist application.Once a user login though sso in these application,the logout button dosent work or complets the loop.
We need a way to clear the siteminder sso cookie once the logout button is clicked.
Please suggest a way to make this customization in the apps.


The solution:

The solution seems to be configuring in SiteMinder: configure the logout URL in the app as a SiteMinder logout URL

Steps are as:

1) Find the URL of the logout action in the app (from the docs, by hovering over it, or by tracing the HTTP traffic)
2) Open the SiteMinder Web Agent configuration (either in the SiteMinder console or in the local WebAgent config file) and add a LogOffUri setting to reflect the above URI. Note: this is a URI not a URL. So remove the http://hostname portion.

if you are not the siteminder administrator, You can pass this info to the SiteMinder administrator and they should know exactly what it means.

Oracle 11g DB vs Microsoft SQL 2008

Once when I visited one of my friends, My friend and I had a (so called healthy) Debate between Oracle 11g DB vs Microsoft SQL 2008.

I was towards oracle's performance and high cost and my friend was towards MS DB and its benifits of being low cost and may be better performance...

After a while... this kind of continued in a email... My friend sent me this PDF document

Twelve ways to reduce costs with SQL Server 2008 - White paper1.pdf

For my review and reading....

As a counter response or you can say to continue the healthier side of the debate... I sent the below response...

Hi Friend,

Had some time in hand to read the PDF that you sent me... thanks for this... now as this is in front of the table...looks like I was right 100%...

Now the Twelve ways to reduce costs with SQL Server 2008 - White paper1.pdf that you attached talks only about cost and cost reduction... and I believe I agreed that Oracle is very very very expensive compared to MS 2008 and I believe I also stated only Enterprise Architecture budget can only offered Oracle... this document does not tell any thing about performance and benchmark comparison with matching cost ....

Now I believe this PDF that you have provided is a sales pitched document.... now I would like to provide my side of refference:

Comparative Management Costs Stud - By Edison group    ---> this is not an oracle document.... (Thanks to google in helping me find one) ... 

A third party comparative Study, this is cost with performance and DBA Management.... Read the conclusion of both, your reference and my reference, and you will know what I was really about and how they compare.... But do read the report in detail for knowledge sake...

The fact speaks out in terms of comparative  study....

Hope this helps you get some insight in comparison. I believe this was a healthy debate.

Cheers,

Arun.