Mapping Routing service with a database adapter in ESB

Hi,
I have a database adapter configured for a Stored procedure that takes in a XML_TYPE and returns a CLOB. I also have the Schema for request and response, which I have configured in a Routing Service. Now how do I map the Routing Service to the Database adapter.
The problem I am facing is 'CLOB' is returned as a simple type which can't be mapped to a complex type schema of the Routing Service.
Also the 'any' tag of the XML_TYPE is not supported by jdeveloper.
Any suggestions plz....
Thanks..

Adapters may have been tesed under load but messages are kept small. Of you adapter keep your messages as small as possible. Try and keep messages under 1MB, if possible.
If you know Apps will I would stick to using the DB adapter for calling APIs, and Apps adapter for the more complex integrations, e.g. business events, xml gateway. I use DB adapter for concurrent programs, but the apps adapter is good for these integrations as well.
The reason I used the DB adapter for APIs is because the PL/SQL stub the adapter creates forces you to uses all fields in the APIs. In some case you may only need a handfull out of 100. You get issues when you don't provide values.
If you are in evaluation stage of products I would recommend Oracle Data Integrator for eBusiness Suite integration if you are implementing batch type interfaces. This is because of the inbuild error handling. It manages batch messages much better. Whereas SOA Suite is designed for single messages so it manges small messages well.
The best option Oracle offers is Oracle Data Integration Suite, which includes ESB and BPEL.
cheers
James

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Hi UserN,
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When I open the BPEL project, and look at the database adapter using the wizard, I see that the JNDI location specified as "eis/DB/HPPOMV". I see this again in the wsdl associated with the DB adapter, with the following: UIConnectionName="HPPOMV"
I have logged into EM, but I am not 100% sure that I am looking at the correct connection pool. I have navigated to "JDBC Resources" tab. Under the Data Sources section I see a list, but none of these has a JNDI location of "eis/DB/HPPOMV".
The closest match is " jdbc/HPPOMV", with connection pool attributes of:
Initial size of Connection Cache 0
Minimum Number of Connections 0
Maximum Number of Connections 100
Connection Retry Interval (seconds) 1
Maximum Connection Attempts 3
Maximum Number of Statements Cached 0
Have I made my way to the right connection?
I am monitoring this pool, but the "connection in use" has not got anywhere near 100.
Edit:: is there anyway to monitor/record the connection pool usage? We normally investigate these errors the following day, by which time any connection pool issues may have gone. I don't really have time to watch the screen refresh every 30 seconds.
Thanks - Anit
(At the moment I am reading through the BPEL training material to review the steps I performed in class).
Edited by: Anit Patel on Feb 5, 2010 3:02 PM

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It seems JMS and other transports are very well supported, but how do we use DB Services?
Please if someone can provide some insight into this.
thanks

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BPEL Process Manager
Business Activity Monitoring
Business Rules
Web Services Manager
Complex Event Processing
B2B
ESB (the old Oracle ESB product)
Service Bus (formerly AquaLogic Service Bus from BEA)
This does not come with an application server as the suite is hot-pluggable (i.e. can be used with a number of application servers). However, the preferred (and cheaper) approach is to purchase SOA Suite and WebLogic Suite (which contains iAS, WebLogic Enterprise Edition, Coherence, JRockit with 100ms deterministic garbage collection and WebLogic Operations Control). This is because some of the elements of the SOA Suite only currently run on iAS (B2B) and some only run on WebLogic Server (Oracle Service Bus) although in the future these will also become hot pluggable.
To find out more, check out the SOA Suite and WebLogic Suite pages below:
[SOA Suite|http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/soa-suite.html]
[WebLogic Suite|http://www.oracle.com/appserver/weblogic/weblogic-suite.html]
You will find the DataSheets are particularly useful for giving you an overview of the suite.
Hope that helps.
Chris

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I have been given a pre-defined wsdl file that defines the inputs to an ESB service and I wa wondering whether it is possible to create an inbound SOAP adaptor or whether this is actually an outbound adaptor. I am new to SOAP adaptors so need a little bit of guidance.
Hopefully someone can help.

Hi,
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Kind Regards,
Andre Jochems

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Hello Everyone!!
I'm trying to do an insert in an Oracle Express Database with a database adapter. I'm trying to do the insert in two tables: SOLICITUDES with a column called NUMSOLICITUD that is also the primary key of the table and it's populated from its own sequence and the other table whose name is DOCJUST with a field NUMSOL. SOLICITUDES has a 1:M relationship with DOCJUST and the fields used in this relationship are NUMSOLICITUD and NUMSOL. The problem is that when the adapter do the insert, the first insert made on SOLICITUDES is correct, but when it tries to insert in the DOCJUST table, when it's supposed to insert in NUMSOL the same value inserted in NUMSOLICITUDES instead of that, a NULL value is inserted in NUMSOL so the process fails. Is it because the NUMSOLICITUDES column is populated from a sequence? How can I resolve that?
Thanks!!

Hi,
OK, I found the following article: http://soa-bpel-esb.blogspot.com/2010/04/understanding-catch-and-catchall.html
Using the info from that article I have created a test flow, which contains the same insert database adapter as the production flow. I have placed the Invoke within its own scope and attached a "CatchAll" block to this scope. To this block I have added a "empty" step (do nothing).
In my tests, I see the desired results i.e. the second time I initiate the flow with the same data, the CatchAll block executes, which does nothing, and processing continues after the scope.
So far so good - my query is how would I catch the specific error of unique index violation rather than general catchall?
As before, and assistance/comments greatly appreciated.
Anit

Can't create a Database Adapter

My BPEL process was functioning properly, but I wanted to rename some of my database and FTP adapters. When I did this they quit working, so I then deleted the old adapters and attempted to create new adapters, duplicate my previous efforts, with the new names I wanted. Unfortunately when I try to create a new Database Adapter (I hit the finish button in the wizard) it just sits there with the dialog box saying "Processing, please wait..." and never creates the wsdl file or anything else.
Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm using 10.1.3

After doing some more testing I think I found the problem. It wasn't bad wsdl files or references, but instead that my database adapter names were too long.
After I recreated my project I ran into problems with my database adapter again. This time it created the adapter but did not allow my Invoke to access any operations... the drop down box for operations was empty even though the roles were appropriately configured. As a test I duplicated my nonworking adapter and changed the name to something much shorter, and it worked. Absolutely no other differences existed between the two adapters.
I can understand there being limits to variable name lengths, but it would be nice if JDeveloper would alert you that your names are too long rather than just breaking when other components try to access them.

Database adapter exception handling

Using Database adapter in ESB process that polls using DeletePolling strategy.
On hitting exception due to some date format issue the adapter stops polling and the polling resumes only after identifying and removing the faulty record from the table.
We have to do manual process of identifying the faulty records, since the error is not reported in any of the log files.
Can configure to log this type of error?
Would any rejection handling work in this case?
Using Oracle ESB 10.1.3.4

When records are inserted into the table, then the date format will be of sql type which is supported by db adapter. This might not be causing the issue. I hope you don't have a scenario where db adapter is updating a record through it's logical delete strategy and the same record is updated by another service. This would result in stopping db adapter polling. Provide the log trace for this. You can change the mode to trace-32 at soa.adapter level in em console.
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