Oracle SOA / BPM 12c - Useful Upgrade Content

With this post I'd like to provide a list of useful material regarding Oracle SOA 12c Upgrade.

• Oracle® Fusion Middleware Upgrading to the Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure
  https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/core/INFUP/toc.htm 
• Oracle® Fusion Middleware Upgrading SOA Suite and Business Process Management
  https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/core/FUPSS/toc.htm
• Best practices upgrade blogs from Oracle:
  https://blogs.oracle.com/SOA/tags/upgrade    
• Slideshare (UKOUG 2015): What's Stopping You from Upgrading to Oracle SOA Suite 12c?
  http://www.slideshare.net/DaniloSchmiedel1/whats-stopping-you-from-upgrading-to-oracle-soa-suite-12c
• Slideshare: Road to SOA Suite 12c
  http://de.slideshare.net/opitzconsulting/doag-2014-roadtosoasuite12cschmiedel 
• Upgrade videos:
  http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/cross/upgrade_videos.htm
• 2 Minute Tech Tip
  https://blogs.oracle.com/archbeat/entry/2mtt 
• Troubleshooting the Upgrade
  http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/core/FUPSS/know_base.htm#FUPSS339 

In addition I'd like to mention the SOA Expert Series. In this webinar, David Shaffer (Middleworks),  Deepak Arora (Oracle A-Team), Antony Reynolds & Kathryn Lustenberger (Oracle Prod Mgmt) and myself shared tips, tricks and best practices for upgrading to SOA Suite 12c. You can download the slides as well as the recording from middleworks.com.
 

Upgrading Oracle SOA Suite from 11g to 12c

Today I'd like to share my presentation on upgrading Oracle SOA Suite from 11g to 12c. It contains information on how the product evolved the last couple of years. It also explains different upgrade strategies, the difference between in-flight upgrade and migration, important pre-upgrade tasks, the upgrade steps itself and post-upgrade steps.   

Additionally it lists the experiences and upgrade results that we've achieved in two different scenarios: in-flight upgrade as well as migration. 

Road to SOA Suite 12c

Moving from a File-Based MDS Repository to a Database-Based MDS in Oracle BPM / SOA 12c

You might have noticed that Business Rules editing during runtime is not available in SOA / BPM 12c domains that have been installed from the Quickstart distribution. This is because for those domain configs the underlying MDS is configured as a file-based repository. For the development in our projects we very often use a SOA / BPM Compact Domain. The change of Business Rules without re-deployment is quite important for us because we work a lot with Adaptive Case Management – and there Business Rules and live changes are a key benefit (which we are also demonstrating in demos / POCs / etc.).

Rules Editing in SOA Composer (with DB-based MDS)

You can move from a file-based repository to a database-based repository. In our CattleCrew-Blogpost Re-configure a compact domain to use a DB-based MDS instead of a File-based MDS my colleague Sven Bernhardt and me describe how to do that. Please note that you cannot move from a database-based repository to a file-based repository. Please also note that this approach is not documented in the Oracle documentation, so it is not officially supported

After going through the steps below it should be possible to edit rules and DVMs during runtime.

Oracle BPM 12c - Quick Start Installation (uncensored)

Getting started in 15 minutes!

One of the challenges with previous releases was, that SOA & BPM composites couldn't be deployed and tested on the JDeveloper integrated Weblogic server. Therefore a separate installation of SOA/BPM Suite or a virtual image was necessary to start developing. Now with the new release Oracle introduced a single-click installer for SOA & BPM Suite. Among other new features (like debugging & testing capabilities, templating, optimized foodprint, etc.) this really helps to increase developer productivity.

The video below demonstrates that with Oracle SOA & BPM 12c it just takes 15 minutes to get started - install JDeveloper, start the Weblogic server, develop a simple Hello World, deploy the process and test it from Enterprise Manager.


Do you feel inspired? Just download the software from OTN and try it yourself (SOA-Download; BPM-Download). Have fun!