SOA Suite 11g Components

The SOA Suite primarily comprises of BEA Application Server(J2EE) where the following Service Engines are embedded

• BPEL
• Mediator
• Business Rules
• Human Workflow

Oracle Service Bus is another important part of the SOA Suite but comes as a separate application.

The other helpful components/frameworks are

• Web Service Manager - where policies are defined and enforced
• B2B - A protocol engine that provides Business to Business communicaton over a variety of protocols like EDI, HL7, etc.
• Adapters - Adapts non service based components as services. Examples are Database Adapter, File Adapter, JMS Adapter, eBusiness Suite Adapter.

Managing/Monitoring Tools

• Enterprise Manager - A web based console to manage all fusion mddleware components
• Business Activity Monitoring(BAM) - activity monitoring tool

The IDE to develop the SOA application is Java Developer. There is also an Eclipse plugin.