OSB and OESB

Hi All,
I have learnt that , there is no more "Oracle Enterprise Server Bus (OESB)" offered from the Oracle. But Oracle has instead offer Oracle Service BUS (OSB). I am confuse about these two products different and how Oracle offer to the customers as the following :
1) Someone told me that Oracle still offer "OESB" as the product that bundle inside "Oracle AS EE" which is included with "WebLogic Suite" , IS it correct ? Is there any document from Oralce that indicate this fact ?
2) If there is no more "Oracle ESB (OESB)' why Oracle still have the datasheet from their Web site : http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/integration/esb/pdf/ds_esb_v10_1_3.pdf
3) Some presentation from Oracle indicated that "OESB" will be changed to "Mediator in SOA 11g", Is it correct ? Then how differents in term of features between "OESB" and "Mediator (in SOA 11g)"
4) How different between "OSB" and "OESB" ?
Could you please help clarify these questions ? Thank you very much in advance.
Best Regards
Pearapon S.

1) Correct the pricelist should indicate this.
2) It is still supported and can be purchased.
3) Correct, this has been done. The features remain the same although Mediator handles state.
4) Very different. In 11g the architecture changes with the introduction of SCA. OSB is not part of this architecture as it is designed to mediate composites, whereas mediator is used for mediation within the composite. OSB has many more functions. Too many to list.
That blog is a good place to start. Bottom line is that both are strategic for Oracle and currently have no plans to drop any of them.
cheers
James

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1 Admin console to manage OSB and SOA installed on different servers

Dear All,
We are planning to have OSB installed on Host 1 and SOA server installed on Host 2. But there will be one Admin console to manage these 2 for the ease of maintenance. When i was trying to install this configuration I had few issues. Hope SOA experts can help me with the configuration.
1)
As SOA and OSB are installed on 2 different host both the servers must have weblogic installed as pre requisite. So I will have
on host 1:
http://host1:7001/console
http://host1:7001/sbconsole
On host 2:
http://host2:7001/console (this is redundant)
http://host2:8001/soa-infra
2) Is it possible to inactivate http://host2:7001/console ? and add SOA server running on host2 to http://host1:7001/console. In the sense, I would like to control the SOA server from host 1.
Issue No :2
When I create a domain on Host 1 I just get the options for OSB and not SOA. It is obvious as SOA is not installed on Host1. but if that is the case, Is it possible to add SOA server running on host2 to host1. Is it going to be a cluster?
Is this configuration seems realistic? Has anyone implemented. Any pointers please.
Reagrds,
Aani

Hi Aani,
Please go through the blog series -
http://blogs.oracle.com/reynolds/2010/09/installing_an_11g_soa_cluster.html
You may also refer EDG -
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/core.1111/e12036/toc.htm
Regards,
Anuj
Edited by: Anuj Dwivedi on Feb 23, 2011 9:14 PM

OSB and BPEL Capacity Planning

Guys,
I am looking for a start point to begin a capacity planing of OSB and BPEL infrastructure.
What are the parameters to take in account?
How many managed servers?
RAM?
CPU?
I know that some answers might be shallow because there are so many factor to work with, but I need a small guidance.
Anyone?
Thanks a lot

You can't expect a serious answer to your question. With so many unknown factors in place ...
However, if we stay on this "general level", then based on my experience I can easily say that OSB is not greedy at all. You can handle tens to hundreds of requests per second on a retail hardware. Of course, it all depends on the character of your services. The more complexity (XQuery, XSLT, service callouts, java callouts) you add to your services the more power you need.

How to configure osb and soa in single domain

Hi all,
hope all are fine.
sorry if this question is already posted.
I installed wls 10.3.6 and osb 11.1.1.6 & SOA 11.1.1.6 and domain cofiguration also successful.
in domain cofiguration i selected both osb and soa.
all (wls,osb,soa ) servers are up but soa_infra was down. I am unable to see soa folder in em.
where is the problem please provide solution for this...
thanks in advance.
Thanks
Mohan

Hi Harsh,
I tried with(developer template) that but again soa_infra was down. i am getting user messaging services.
admin server logs are
oracle.mds.lcm.exception.MDSLCMException: MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document
MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"
MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.
ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"
ORA-06512: at line 1
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.deploy(DeployManager.java:733)
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.startDeployment(DeployManager.java:204)
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.MDSLifecycleListenerImpl.start(MDSLifecycleListenerImpl.java:215)
     at oracle.mds.lcm.weblogic.WLLifecycleListener.preStart(WLLifecycleListener.java:77)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$PreStartAction.run(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:282)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$LifecycleListenerAction.invoke(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:199)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow.preStart(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:62)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.HeadLifecycleFlow.prepare(HeadLifecycleFlow.java:283)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$1.next(BaseDeployment.java:648)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:191)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare(EarDeployment.java:59)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:60)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppDeployment.prepare(AppDeployment.java:144)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doPrepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:39)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.prepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:191)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$1.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:21)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionApps(ConfiguredDeployments.java:240)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.prepare(ConfiguredDeployments.java:165)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.deploy(ConfiguredDeployments.java:122)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.resume(DeploymentServerService.java:180)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.start(DeploymentServerService.java:96)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:256)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:221)
Caused by: oracle.mds.config.MDSConfigurationException: MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document
MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"
MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.
ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"
ORA-06512: at line 1
     at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.loadFromBean(PConfig.java:959)
     at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.<init>(PConfig.java:758)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.loadFromBean(MDSConfig.java:787)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.loadFromElement(MDSConfig.java:848)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.<init>(MDSConfig.java:491)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.<init>(MDSConfig.java:438)
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.deploy(DeployManager.java:516)
     ... 27 more
Caused by: oracle.mds.exception.MDSExceptionList: MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"
MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.
ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"
ORA-06512: at line 1
     at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.loadFromBean(PConfig.java:953)
     ... 33 more
I installed rcu correctly and db is up and i installed following combination
oepe-wls-indigo-installer-11.1.1.8.0.201110211138-10.3.6-win32
ofm_rcu_win_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of1
ofm_osb_generic_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of1
ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of2
is there any mismatch combination.
Thanks
Mohan
Edited by: Mohan SOA on Sep 12, 2012 12:39 AM

OSB and SOA Server (Mediator) Design question

As OSB is the strategic ESB and is used for external services does it make sense that all communication must go out via the OSB.
For example if I have a request that comes in gets routed through the OSB and then calls a backend composite which contains a BPEL that sits on the Oracle SOA server that calls multiple external services (CRM, SAP etc..) Would all the calls out from the BPEL then go back to the OSB and out to the external services (via proxy/business services.) This seems to add a lot of network hops to the whole architecture.
I can't really seem to find a diagram to explain this but an external service consumer could call the Oracle SOA stack that will come in via the OSB (for security gateway as OWSM 11g doesn't support gateway yet.) Then get transformed into the CDM and then passed on to the Oracle SOA server that has a composite service with BPEL that orchestrates multiple calls to internal and external services. The external ones requiring a transformation back into the service providers format.
How does this flow work?

If you are talking to external B2B systems you should use the Oracle B2B Server, have a look at this link,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/integration.1111/e10229/b2b_intro.htm#CEGGAGJA
Section 1.6 in there gives a good example of doing just that. The OSB mediator is responsible for talking between CDM's in this case so it does some internal work, within one CDM set of services and then when ready the mediator translates from CDM to the format needed for the B2B. The B2B Server then does all the clever stuff needed to talk to the B2B partner.
In the internal case where the call is within the Enterprise the Oracle documentation states that there may be cases when doing this translation from CDM to legacy format may take place within the SOA server but recommends that it is normally done using the mediator in the same way as with partner calls. The 11g developer documentation states "The stated direction by Oracle is for the Oracle Service Bus to be the preferred ESB for interactions outside the SOA Suite. Interactions within the SOA Suite may sometimes be better dealt with by the Oracle Mediator component in the SOA Suite, but we believe that for most cases, the Oracle Service Bus will provide a better solution and so that is what we have focused on within this book."
Just what those exceptions are is an interesting question. If you have a CDM and all of your legacy world has translators you will spend all of your time hoping up to the mediator and back down maybe that is the exception. If everything is using the mediator then the SOA orchestration power is lost. If on the other hand most of your system lives within a canonical schema and there is one exception perhaps you make it pay the price for non-conformance.

OSB and SAP integration using XML web services

Hi Team,
We are designing solution for asynchronous and synchronous scenarios integration between OSB and SAP using web services.
Can you please provide some pointers which tells about how OSB and SAP integration works.
For an example:
If we are designing the above scenario between SAP PI and SAP ECC, we know the below communication protocols are avilable:
1.Proxy
2.RFC
3.IDOCs
And also we know how adapters will get connect.
Now ODB wants to connect to SAP to send and receive data. Please help me with information like:
1. Is Proxy, RFC or IDOCs are applicable for OSB as well?
2. How webservice scenarios can be implemented?
Thanks in Advance.
regards,
Vicky

Hi,
>>>and what are the Forms ? for SAP Business Connector Related Postings ??
try WM (webmethods forums) or here since this is the only middleware related forum on SDN
>>> I have a requirement to integrate sap to non-sap with Business Connector !!
excellent
>>>We need to Generate the SAP Data In xml Format ? and the Non-sap System can Understand Only XML Formated data.
fairly easy
>>>>Is there any way Business Connector Box can Pull the XML file from R/3 Application Server and store the file in the Business Connector Server. from that How do we Sent XML file to Non-sap. How do we Integrate ??
business connector has both IDOC and RFC adapters so it can
receive data from SAP (IDOC, RFC), send data to SAP (IDOC, RFC)
and pull data from SAP (RFC only)
>>>>what transaction code will trigger this event ? I mean is ther any SAP Transaction Code to Integrate Business Connector?
either transaction from SAP (for sending IDOCs for example) or you can schedule (via BC scheduler)
an RFC call to SAP that will fetch the data and put it in an XML file
good luck,
Regards,
Michal Krawczyk

[OSB and OWSM] - External Web service stacks and frameworks

Hi everyone ! I'm starting to read about OSB and OWSM and I'm having some doubts. I've some developments of Web services with external Stacks like CXF, JBossWS, Metro and I'd like to ask some questions:
1- Will I be able to productively leverage all features of OSB and OWSM like creating a proxy service to add WS-* standards policies and features (WS-Security, for instance) even with these web services implemented in different stacks other than Weblogic's ?
2- If it is possible, do these web services need to be deployed at the Weblogic server to enable the OWSM and OSB to work effectively ?
3- Even if it is possible to use the OSB and OWSM nicely with webservices developed at external stacks and deployed at other application servers is there any reason to quit using these external web service stacks in favor of Weblogic's (like features only enabled on OSB/OWSM when the services use the Weblogic stack) ?
I suppose that if I ignore the JAX-WS stack from Weblogic and use an external framework (like CXF) I'll lose most of the application server administration capabilities since the Weblogic server won't be able to recognize the CXF stack as it does with its own.But, the main doubt I'm in is, since OSB and OWSM might be used with external providers I probably won't need to develop my web services using the Weblogic implementation (which my team does not yet know) since there will be no features of the OSB and OWSM which can only be used with the Weblogic's stack. I would like, please, to know your oppinions about these considerations. Sorry about the long post and possible errors (I just started learning).
Thank you!

Hi Lupan,
I can speak mostly to OWSM as my experience with OSB is small thus far.
+1- Will I be able to productively leverage all features of OSB and OWSM like creating a proxy service to add WS-* standards policies and features (WS-Security, for instance) even with these web services implemented in different stacks other than Weblogic's ?+
OWSM (10gR3) has two types of policy enforcement point (PEP) -- Gateway and Agent. The Gateway acts as a remote proxy and is neutral to the service implementation technology as long as it adheres to SOAP 1.1. In this regard you can use OWSM freely with CXF, MS implementations, etc. Agents run in-process with the service and thus have far greater restrictions on what service implementation frameworks and containers that are supported. There is some certification for AXIS 1.x running in OAS and Tomcat; but practically speaking, my recommendation for Agents is to only use within OAS 10gR3 where it is built in (and using OC4J Web Services through JAX-RPC).
OWSM 11gR1 initially supports only agent-style (in process) PEP and is built-in to Fusion Middleware and WLS. It is only for Fusion and WLS Web Service implementations.
OWSM is quite full-featured for WS-*.
+2- If it is possible, do these web services need to be deployed at the Weblogic server to enable the OWSM and OSB to work effectively ?+
"No" if using OWSM Gateway PEP. A qualified "Yes" if using OWSM Agent PEP.
+3- Even if it is possible to use the OSB and OWSM nicely with webservices developed at external stacks and deployed at other application servers is there any reason to quit using these external web service stacks in favor of Weblogic's (like features only enabled on OSB/OWSM when the services use the Weblogic stack) ?+
There is the manageability that you mention, but also there is the identity propagation scenario and tight security integration. Both OAS and WLS hosted services in the native stacks (JAX-RPC and JAX-WS) allow sophisticated and secure passing of identity in the request -- for instance, via SAML Assertions in the WS-Sec header -- and built-in capabilities to map the passed identity into the running service's Subject (i.e. enabling JAAS security etc.).
In my experience this type of identity propagation functionality has either been absent or less complete in other typical implementation frameworks not closely aligned with the container security mechanisms.
Hope this helps,
Todd

Running OSB and SOA Suite as Windows Services? Node Manager

Hi,
Based on our current hardware configuration, we need to deploy our SOA Managed Server and Admin Server on the same machine as our OSB. Currently for development we just start the servers using the start scripts and keep a window open for them (3 of them: 1 - admin, 1 - soa_server1, and 1 - OSB.) We want to be able to run these as services and allow the admins to log out of the box. It seems like the Node Manager would allow us to do that but can we configure our Windows server to have a Node Manager running for the OSB and another for the SOA stuff on the same box? Do we even need to do that? Can we have a single Node Manager manage all three on port 5556?
I hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance for any quick responses.
Jeremy

Definitely you can (should) have a single node manager. You may refer below links -
http://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer/2010/01/weblogic_nodemanager_quick_sta.html
WLS 10.3.2 Adminserver startup failed when trying to run as Windows Service
Regards,
Anuj

OSB and SOA Suite in the Java Cloud

Hi All -- the question is rather to a technical support personnel of the Oracle Cloud,
Is it possible to deploy and run the OSB and SOA Suite applications on the Oracle Java Cloud? To be more precise:
1. Is the WL server in the cloud configured to contain the Oracle Soa Suite?
2. Is the WL server in the cloud configured to contain the Oracle Service Bus?
If not: would it be possible to configure the Cloud WL domains the way that these are supported?
What we need are two servers (or two clusters): a SOA Suite application runs on one, while the OSB application runs on the other.
Thanks for help.

Hi Chris,
Oracle's statement of direction that you can find at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/integration/service-bus/docs/Oracle-Service-Bus-SOD.pdf
there will be convergence of the 2 products that basically address 2 different use cases (see Statement of Direction).
In my opinion new tools will be added to Jdeveloper to develop and deploy on Oracle Service Bus (OSB). In present OSB version, OSB tools are not part of Jdeveloper and transformations use XQuery instead of XSLT (as for Oracle ESB).
Hope this help you a little bit.
Regards,
Jean-Pierre

OSB and WSDL response message

Hi all,
from the WSDL, that I put at bottom of this post, I've created a new OSB project importing the WSDL itself and creating a proxy service based on it.
I've implemented it using the fn-bea:execute-sql function:
<ctx:route><ctx:service>{
fn-bea:execute-sql (
$myDataSource,
'resultset',
'SELECT id, name, type_id, domi_country_id, open_date, close_date FROM myTable WHERE id=?',
xs:string($body/urn:clientDataLookup/portfolioNumber/text())
}</ctx:service></ctx:route>
For getting the response, in the pipeline reponse I added a REPLACE action:
Replace [ node contents ] of [ . ]
in [ body ] with
[ <urn:clientDataLookupResponse>
<xmlCntent>{ $result/con:service/resultset }</xmlCntent>
</urn:clientDataLookupResponse>
I deduced the above xml response message using the OSB xquery wizard navigating through variable structure section and selecting $body - clientDataLookup (response) variable:
$body/urn:clientDataLookupResponse/xmlCntent
from that xpath expression I deduced the above xml response message.
My question: is that approach correct ? Why should I rewrite the xml response message ?
I'm wondering how to allow OSB to generate the correct xml response message in automatic way and then use it as template and fill only the xmlCntent param.
Thanks in advance
ferp
<definitions name="ClientDataLookup"
targetNamespace="http://wsdl/ClientDataLookup.wsdl"
xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns:tns="http://wsdl/ClientDataLookup.wsdl"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<message name="ClientDataRequest">
<part name="buId" type="xsd:string"/>
<part name="portfolioNumber" type="xsd:string"/>
</message>
<message name="ClientDataResponse">
<part name="xmlCntent" type="xsd:string"/>
</message>
<portType name="ClientData_PortType">
<operation name="clientDataLookup">
<input message="tns:ClientDataRequest"/>
<output message="tns:ClientDataResponse"/>
</operation>
</portType>
<binding name="ClientData_Binding" type="tns:ClientData_PortType">
<soap:binding style="rpc"
transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
<operation name="clientDataLookup">
<soap:operation soapAction="clientDataLookup"/>
<input>
<soap:body
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
namespace="urn:bsource:dataservice"
use="encoded"/>
</input>
<output>
<soap:body
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
namespace="urn:bsource:clientdataservice"
use="encoded"/>
</output>
</operation>
</binding>
<service name="ClientDataService">
<documentation>WSDL File for Client Data Lookup</documentation>
<port binding="tns:ClientData_Binding" name="ClientData_Port">
<soap:address
location="http://localhost:8080/soap/servlet/rpcrouter"/>
</port>
</service>
</definitions>

In most common use cases a service bus transforms the messages from one format to other. In your case you are actually doing the same. You are transforming the message from database structure to the structure which is defined by the WSDL. The snippet you are using is not XML, its an XQuery snippet. There is nothing unusual about it. The tree structure in the left side is given for that purpose only, to facilitate writing XPaths and XQuery snippets. If you do not want to type anything and want to get it graphically (or example when its a big XML), use Eclipse IDE of OSB and create a XQuery transformation which you can call from OSB message flow.
Edited by: AbhishekJ on Nov 11, 2011 12:57 AM

Synchronous message handling between OSB and MQ

Hi,
I have a requirement to have a PS in OSB that gets some XML data from another application.
The PS implementation has to be synchronous.
The interface is like
External Application<->OSB PS<->MQ<->OSB <-> External Application
Can anyone help me with the request-reply implementation(i.e. synchronous call handling) between OSB and MQ.
Required functionality :
OSB will get XML data from the external application,will do the data transformation to make it compatible with MQ interface and will then send data to MQ and will wait for the reply from MQ that it then sends back to the external application after transformation.
Queries:
How to correlate two messages i.e. request msg to mq and reply msg from mq in OSB?
What kind of Proxy Service implementation is required to have such functionality?
If someone can help me with similar kind of implementation,it will be of great help to me.
Thanks in advance

OSB support this pattern out of the box . You can implement the MessageID pattern as specified in this link:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13159_01/osb/docs10gr3/interopjms/MsgIDPatternforJMS.html
When you configure the business service to use MessageID as the correlation pattern, the following happens under the hood:
1. Business service sends request to the MQ request queue. The MQ JMS provider sets the message ID on the message and this is returned to the bs. The business service also sets the reply queue details in the JMSReplyTo Header in the request.
2. The business service then waits for a response message which has a correlationID equal to the messageID in the request message.
3. The system which processes the request from the MQ should set the correlation ID of the response to the same value as the Message ID in the request.
4. The business service process the reply if it is received before the timeout interval. No need to purge the queues for message arriving out after timeout since OSB does this automatically for you.
A point to note here is that if you deploy this in a cluster , you need to create 'N' local MQ queues for reply, where N is same as the number of managed servers in the cluster. Else you could lose replies in a scenario where the reply for a request sent by man server 'X" is processed by man server "Y". The request-response correlation tables are maintained internally on man server memory. Since Y had no clue of the requests sent in X it would just discard the reply received.
So create dedicate queues for each man server and specify them in the business service definition.
Another key thing for this to work would be to get right the MQ setup between the queue manager in OSB domain and the remote system which process the MQ requests. A simple setup would be for you to create all reply queues as local queues under your OSB queue manager and create only a transmission queue with the same name as your OSB queue manager in the remote system. You need to ask the remote system to do the MQOpen with the ReplyToQueue and ReplyToQM names for queue and queue manager names. This will put the replies to the transmission queue to your QM and through it can reach the right reply queue.
Edited by: atheek1 on Mar 29, 2010 7:50 AM

OSB and ESB

What's the difference between OSB and ESB.
ESB is a component of SOA Suite and it can connect to different services.
OSB has more functions such as dynamic routing and Message Enrichment. If I just buy SOA suite, can I use OSB? Or I must buy OSB if I want to use it in my application which contains SOA components.

Hi-
Hope this helps!
Oracle Service Bus (OSB) is the new name for AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB). Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is the 'old' Oracle product.
ESB is currently better integrated with BPEL due to fast path connections between the two (don't use web services if they don't need to) and also uses the same adapter framework.
OSB is more functional than ESB, providing better monitoring and dashboard capabilities. It also allows richer message routing, throttling and message enrichment.
Currently release of SOA suite doesn't contain OSB integrated to it(we can expect it n future releases from Oracle) ,you need to install OSB 11g/any required version seperatey for OSB development.

OSB and OES

Hi all,
we are installing OSB and OES in our project....can any one tell me which one we have to install first OSB or OES.
thanks.

Hi Srivatsa,
you will need to install OSB first and then configure OES 10g SM. When posting OES articles include "Oracle Entitlement Server (OES)" in the subject. This way it will easily show up in search
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SOA OSB and JMS issues

Hi guys,
We are trying to achieve synchronous communication using JMS. The client in Weblogic Domain 1 creates a JMS Message , and sets the JMSReplyTo attribute as queue ‘Reply’ where it waits on for a reply. It waits for a message having correlation id = to the messageid of the message it sent on the ‘reply’ queue. An OSB proxy service picks the message and puts it on a queue on Weblogic Domain 2. A MDB listening to this queue on domain 2, picks the message and creates a reply message with the correlation id of reply as message id of incoming message. At this point when we inspect the JMSReplyTo header value of the request message, it appears as null. Is the JMSReplyTo attribute not retained across Weblogic domains? Or is the proxy service not copying it over.
Our basic aim is to get the request message from a queue on one domain to another domain, and get the reply back on the right queue that the client is pinning on.
Is using OSB not the right approach or we are not configuring it right? Will using Weblogic SAF capability help us?

You have to configure a transport header action with "pass all headers through pipeline" option to make this work.
Configuring Transport Headers in Message Flows
The transport header action is a communication type action, and it is available in pipeline stages and error handler stages.
Configuring Global Pass Through and Header-Specific Copy Options for Transport Headers
The following options are available when you configure a transport headers action:
> * The Pass all Headers through Pipeline option specifies that at run time, the transport headers action passes all headers through from the inbound message to >the outbound message or vice versa. Every header in the source set of headers is copied to the target header set, overwriting any existing values in the target >header set.

Base64Binary OSB and File Adapter Issue

Hi all,
I am converting an xml to flat file after that i want to write the flatfile to a file using File Adapter in OSB.
So using java callout we converted the binary content to base64 string and we are able to write the data using file adapter .
But the file contains as extra line in between each line which my legacy system wont accept.
I printed the base64 string in the output file and when i decode that file using the website as safe decode as text i am able to get the correct file.
So where is the problem ? File Adapter ? Why i am getting extrace line in between each line . How to write safely using file adapter.
If i use file transport of OSB i am able to write without any issues but i want to write dynamic location so i am looking for file transport of OSB.
Thanks
Phani

Hi Anju,
Thanks for the response . If i decode the base64 binary data using this website if i use Notepad++ i cant see an extra line in the notepad++ it showing as below
Its a fixed length file 1 to 513 then next line so for the file transport it showing as below
ISA ............................
1 to 513 CRLF
For file adapter it is showing as below in the same notepad++ editor
ISA..........................
1 to 513 CR
CRLF
an extra CR so an extra line .
I used MFL and converted the xml to non-xml ( flat file fixed length file) for file transport i am i created another proxy message type Text .It is working fine
Added to the above problem i have another few questions on the file transport
How can append to an exiting file using File transport ?
How to change the File directory dynamically ?

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