SOA12cFeatures

Oracle SOA Suite 12c has following  New features:

1. Quick Single Installer :

 Oracle SOA12c suite comes as single installer , this installer has SOA12c setup file , we have to run this setup file once and it will install weblogic ,DB/SOA/OSB etc. default DB is Java DB.

2. Java DB - Apache Derby 

Oracle SOA 12c uses the Java DB also known as Apache Derby for the SOA Dehydration store

3. JDeveloper IDE for OSB:

Eclipse IDE is no longer required for OSB Development. Jdeveloper is the IDE used for designing all major components like Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Event Processing.  

4. SOA Debugger: 

SOADebugger is introduced to debug SOA and OSB applications. We can debug our code before deploying it; this saves lot of development efforts.

5. New Adapters:

Coherence, REST, LDAP adapters have been introduced to support Cloud and Application .

6. Enterprise Service Scheduler:

No need to use other schedulers to invoke soa services ,SOA12c provides Enterprise Service Scheduler (ESS) to schedule SOA services for processing of messages

7. Templates: 

As part of code share and reuse which reduces developers effort templates can be created. for SOA/OSB ,three types of templates supported are:

   a. Project Templates

   b. Component Templates

   c. Custom Activity Templates

8. BPEL Subprocesses: 

BPEL Sub process not a complete process but is a fragment that consists of reusable code of business logic. This sub process is invoked from a parent process using a "call" activity.

Types of BPEL Subprocesses are:

    a. Inline Subprocess

    b. Standalone Subprocess

9. MDS support for OSB: 

In 11g version MDS support was not there for OSB but in 12c MDS support is provided for OSB.

10. Translate Activity: 

 Translate activity is also introduced which is used for Native to XML and XML to Native transformation.

11. Xquery Mapper: 

In this release Xquery mapper is introduced which provide XQuery support.

12. Re-sequencing in OSB: 

Oracle SOA 12c  allows Re-Sequencing feature to OSB also, with the help of this feature we able to process the request message in proper sequence.

13. MFT :

      Oracle SOA 12c supports Manage File Transfers .