Service monitoring in OSB 11G

Hi,
We have requirement where we have to monitor services, few parameters are like error count/message count/CPU utilization etc...
As far as I know EM does not support 11g. Is there any other way to accomplish this? Any links to materials would be useful.
Thanks
Edited by: user11257877 on Feb 16, 2011 11:07 AM

From what I know, this feature causes performance hit. Let me know if my understanding is correct.We have been using this from the AquaLogic Service Bus days and have never found serious performance issues due to this .. use it judiciously.
chk this link:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B16240_01/doc/em.102/e14396/disc_mon_osb.htm

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Hello,
I am used to using the business service endpoint URIs that we configure on the Transport tab of our business services in OSB 11.1.1.6. We can add multiple static entries here for load balancing, and we can overwrite these with a Customization File as we migrate through DEV, TEST, PROD. Everything's just fine there.
I now need to start consuming RESTful services with dynamic URLs such as:
http://host:port/customer/{customerId}
that would result in HTTP calls to values like:
http://host:port/customer/12345678
and
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I see that I can build the URI using the Routing Options action in our proxy message flow and throw in all of those variable values at runtime. This is working in DEV just fine. And, effectively, I've overridden the business service endpoint URIs that we configured in the Transport.
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Found some old code.
I think you need to do
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Not able to find ...Create From Existing Service option in OSB 11g??

Hi,
Iam new to OSB....Iam doing a simple demo in wch i have a business service which calls a java web srvc...now when iam creating a proxy service to route the request to Business service..iam
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I have been reading online to see if web services created through WCF can be hosted side by side in OSB 11G with Java services. I have found posts on how you can allow java web services hosted on OSB 11G to call wcf services, but i have found nothing on hosting WCF services.
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Hi all,
I'm currently evaluating OSB 11g with respect to our existing OSB 10g configuration and build process. For OSB 10g, we use a simple and straightforward method to customize service accounts between development stages. We have a plain text file with login and password inside which is applied to configuration in the same way as is the standard customization. In result, there is one configuration for all stages, one customization per stage and one plain text file with passwords per stage. For each stage this triplet is imported through JMX to OSB and we are very happy with that. Regarding service accounts we use a tool quite similar to the one described here:
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Just to close this thread ...
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I am looking for options to evaluate Registry and Discovery features for Services developed using OSB 11g, BPEL PM 10g Products. Does these products have these features in-built?
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OSB 11G - Routing with policy and forwarding authentication headers

Hi there,
I'm having problems trying to add authentication to some services developed with OSB 11G.
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My problem now is that one of the services I'm trying to route messages to needs the same authentication as the OSB router... I've tried everything I found but without any success... The headers aren't being propagated...
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Thanks in advance,
Best Regards,
Daniel Alves
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Hi,
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SOAP Header based user/password authentication in OSB 11g Proxy Service

Hi,
I have implemented SOAP Header based authentication in my OSB 11g Proxy Service.
In the Security settings of my AnySOAP(Soap 1.1) HTTP Proxy service, I have amde the following changes:
1.
In Transport Access Control link, i selected the User predicate, and provided an user already existing on weblogic server with following roles(AppTesters, Monitors, Operators).
The AuthorizationProvider was XACMLAuthorizer
2.
Under Custom Authentication, I selected the Custom User Name and Password option, and provided the below mentiioned xpaths
User Name XPath: ./*/*:Username/text()
User Password XPath: ./*/*:Password/text()
3.
In Message Access Control link, i selected the User predicate with the same user as mentioned in Transport Access Control link.
Now, when I am testing this service from OSB Test Console, I am providing the following input.
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:N1="http://abcd.com/common/bodcomponents/transactional/model/1.0/">
<soap:Header>
<AuthHeader>
<N1:Username>userXYZ</N1:Username>
<N1:Password>passXYZ</N1:Password>
</AuthHeader>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>

</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
The response is "The invocation resulted in an error: ."
The OSB server logs show the below error:
####<Feb 9, 2011 6:05:42 PM IST> <Error> <OSB Security> <test.abcd.co.in> <osb_server1> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '9' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<anonymous>> <> <5a5769b8025ef997:-2bda316:12def49100a:-7fff-0000000000000c92> <1297254942782> <BEA-387082> <Proxy service access denied (proxy: ABCD/Services/Common_HTTP_Proxy, subject: Subject: 0
)>
####<Feb 9, 2011 6:05:42 PM IST> <Error> <OSB Kernel> <test.abcd.co.in> <osb_server1> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '9' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<anonymous>> <> <5a5769b8025ef997:-2bda316:12def49100a:-7fff-0000000000000c92> <1297254942782> <BEA-382004> <Failed to process request message for service ProxyService ABCD/Services/Common_HTTP_Proxy: com.bea.wli.sb.security.AccessNotAllowedException
com.bea.wli.sb.security.AccessNotAllowedException
     at com.bea.wli.sb.pipeline.RouterSecurity.doAccessControl(RouterSecurity.java:136)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.pipeline.RouterSecurity.doAccessControl(RouterSecurity.java:117)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.pipeline.RouterManager.processMessage(RouterManager.java:586)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender.send0(ServiceMessageSender.java:329)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender.access$000(ServiceMessageSender.java:76)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender$1.run(ServiceMessageSender.java:134)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender$1.run(ServiceMessageSender.java:132)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:363)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:147)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.security.WLSSecurityContextService.runAs(WLSSecurityContextService.java:55)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender.send(ServiceMessageSender.java:137)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceProcessor.invoke(ServiceProcessor.java:454)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.TestServiceImpl.invoke(TestServiceImpl.java:172)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.client.ejb.TestServiceEJBBean.invoke(TestServiceEJBBean.java:167)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.client.ejb.TestService_sqr59p_EOImpl.invoke(TestService_sqr59p_EOImpl.java:353)
     at com.bea.wli.sb.test.client.ejb.TestService_sqr59p_EOImpl_WLSkel.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef.invoke(BasicServerRef.java:589)
     at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableServerRef.invoke(ClusterableServerRef.java:230)
     at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef$1.run(BasicServerRef.java:477)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:363)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:147)
     at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef.handleRequest(BasicServerRef.java:473)
     at weblogic.rmi.internal.wls.WLSExecuteRequest.run(WLSExecuteRequest.java:118)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)
Please suggest where I am going wrong in this. I have cross checked the user/pass credentials with what I am giving in the input, and it is perfectly fine.

I have added the Username and Password as follows, since the namespace declaration was required due to the namespace prefix 'N1' in the XPath
declare namespace N1="http://abcd.com/common/bodcomponents/transactional/model/1.0/";./AuthHeader/N1:Username/text()
declare namespace N1="http://abcdp.com/common/bodcomponents/transactional/model/1.0/";./AuthHeader/N1:Password/text()
I have removed the Message Access Control conditions, have only kept Transport Access Control conditions.
If i keep the condition in Transport Access Control as "Allow access to everyone", and test with proper credentials in the Username/Password tags in SOAP Header, then it works fine. However, if I try to give an incorrect password in the SOAP Header, it denies the access. So that means the XPaths given for Username/Password are working fine. The OSB logs show the below message
+####<Feb 10, 2011 12:59:21 PM IST> <Error> <OSB Security> <test.abcd.co.in> <osb_server1> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '7' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<anonymous>> <> <5a5769b8025ef997:-2bda316:12def49100a:-7fff-0000000000000ef2> <1297322961536> <BEA-386008> <Message level username/password authentication failed: [Security:090304]Authentication Failed: User weblogic javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090302]Authentication Failed: User weblogic denied>+
However if i add the condition with predicate as "User" and user name argument as "weblogic", and try to pass the same in the SOAP Header as well with the correct password, it denies the access with below message in the logs.
+####<Feb 9, 2011 6:05:42 PM IST> <Error> <OSB Security> <test.abcd.co.in> <osb_server1> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '9' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<anonymous>> <5a5769b8025ef997:-2bda316:12def49100a:-7fff-0000000000000c92> <1297254942782> <BEA-387082> <Proxy service access denied (proxy: ABCD/Services/Common_HTTP_Proxy, subject: Subject: 0+
+)>+
+####<Feb 9, 2011 6:05:42 PM IST> <Error> <OSB Kernel> <test.abcd.co.in> <osb_server1> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '9' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<anonymous>> <5a5769b8025ef997:-2bda316:12def49100a:-7fff-0000000000000c92> <1297254942782> <BEA-382004> <Failed to process request message for service ProxyService ABCD/Services/Common_HTTP_Proxy: com.bea.wli.sb.security.AccessNotAllowedException+
com.bea.wli.sb.security.AccessNotAllowedException
at com.bea.wli.sb.pipeline.RouterSecurity.doAccessControl(RouterSecurity.java:136)
at com.bea.wli.sb.pipeline.RouterSecurity.doAccessControl(RouterSecurity.java:117)
at com.bea.wli.sb.pipeline.RouterManager.processMessage(RouterManager.java:586)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender.send0(ServiceMessageSender.java:329)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender.access$000(ServiceMessageSender.java:76)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender$1.run(ServiceMessageSender.java:134)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender$1.run(ServiceMessageSender.java:132)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:363)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:147)
at com.bea.wli.sb.security.WLSSecurityContextService.runAs(WLSSecurityContextService.java:55)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceMessageSender.send(ServiceMessageSender.java:137)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.service.ServiceProcessor.invoke(ServiceProcessor.java:454)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.TestServiceImpl.invoke(TestServiceImpl.java:172)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.client.ejb.TestServiceEJBBean.invoke(TestServiceEJBBean.java:167)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.client.ejb.TestService_sqr59p_EOImpl.invoke(TestService_sqr59p_EOImpl.java:353)
at com.bea.wli.sb.test.client.ejb.TestService_sqr59p_EOImpl_WLSkel.invoke(Unknown Source)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef.invoke(BasicServerRef.java:589)
at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableServerRef.invoke(ClusterableServerRef.java:230)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef$1.run(BasicServerRef.java:477)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:363)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:147)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef.handleRequest(BasicServerRef.java:473)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.wls.WLSExecuteRequest.run(WLSExecuteRequest.java:118)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)

Oracle OSB 11G. Unable to find Oracle Service Bus Configuration Page.

Hi All,
Sorry for the apparent silly question but I am studying and learning the product.
I have the OSB 11G installed and running with a proxy service working and routing requests. The Oracle ESB documentation http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/doc.1111/e15866/ui_ref.htm#i1327746 at chapter 4.4.2 New Oracle Service Bus Configuration Project Wizard
Use this wizard to create an Oracle Service Bus configuration project. For configuration options, see Section 4.4.3, "Oracle Service Bus Configuration Page."
4.4.3 Oracle Service Bus Configuration Page.
I don't see the configuration page in anywhere in the left pane of the console. Am I missing something? The project creation works fine but I just don't see the configuration Wizard.
Thanks.
Regards
Salvatore Ilardo

The link which you are referring is for user interface objects in the Oracle Service Bus plug-ins and OSB plug-ins are used with OEPE (Oracle Enterprise Pack for Ecplise) for OSB development. OEPE is the only supported IDE for OSB development as of now.
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OSB 11g - List business services with WLST

Hi,
We're using OSB 11.1.1.3 and 11.1.1.6 in several environments.
We just need to use wlst scripting to keep track of all business services and their endpoint uri's automatically.
We tried using some old scripts but found out that they don't work on 11g installations:
We tried the following code:
connect('weblogic','oracle10','t3://soavm2:7001')
domainRuntime()
sessionName = "FindServicesSession" + str(System.currentTimeMillis())
sessionMBean = findService(SessionManagementMBean.NAME, SessionManagementMBean.TYPE)
sessionMBean.createSession(sessionName)
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alsbCore = findService(ALSBConfigurationMBean.NAME, ALSBConfigurationMBean.TYPE)
allRefs=alsbCore.getRefs(Ref.DOMAIN)
for ref in allRefs:
typeId = ref.getTypeId()
if typeId == "BusinessService":
serviceDefinition = servConfMBean.getServiceDefinition(ref)
endpointConfigration = serviceDefinition.getEndpointConfig()
print endpointConfigration
We get a "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getServiceDefinition'" error. It seems that it is related to metalink note "How To Modify Service Configurations By OSB JMX API [ID 1431254.1]". However the code provided there is for java through jmx, does anybody has a working example of how to do that on wlst?
Thanks!
p.d: already posted this question on wlst forum but got no answer...

You may like to refer metalink note 1380705.1 and OSB java API (section "Using MBeans in a script")-
http://docs.tpu.ru/docs/oracle/en/fmw/11.1.1.6.0/apirefs.1111/e15033/com/bea/wli/sb/management/configuration/SessionManagementMBean.html
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How to do service callout with the incoming JMS message in OSB 11g

Hello All,
I have a specific requirement for which I am creating a kind of POC where I need some help in OSB, however am new to OSB.
My Environment:
1> I have a request queue (deployed on a WLS domain) - WFReq_WS
2> I have a response queue (deployed on a WLS domain) - WFRes_WS
3> I have created a ProxyService (request/response type) in OSB 11g which is simply mapping the incoming message in WFReq_WS to WFRes_WS
4> I have a WebService (it is currently a simple hello WebService for testing) which takes a string and returns the same string with an added 'Hi' in front of it (e.g. If you send Jack, it will return 'Hi Jack')
My Requirement:
1> I have to do some mechanism in OSB, by which while mapping the message from WFReq_WS to WFRes_WS (through the proxy service I have), it will pick the JMS message (which will be a string/text) and will make a service callout to the Webservice I mentioned using the message as the input parameter of the WebService.
2>Now when the response of the WebService will come, OSB should send this response as the message in the response queue (WFRes_WS) I mentioned above.
To simplify the requirement using an example:
A> I will send a text/String message (say Jack) to the request queue (WFReq_WS)
B> OSB should pick the message (Jack) and make a service callout to the webservice
C> webservice will return 'Hi Jack'
D> OSB should send this to the response queue (WFRes_WS)
I know the above might look very basic question to the PROs, but please elaborate (step by step) what need to be done, since I do not know OSB.
Thanks a lot for your help !

Your example points A and D are easily done by having a "Proxy Service" which has the following details:
Service Type = Messaging Service
Request and Response type = Text
Protocol = jms
Endpoint URI = your request queue (format like 'jms://localhost:7013/weblogic.jms.XAConnectionFactory/QueueJNDIName')
Checkmark "response" so that the proxy service automatically delivers the response to another queue - your response queue
Response URI = jms://localhost:7013/weblogic.jms.XAConnectionFactory/QueueResponse
Now since your "Hello" webservice is (probably) a SOAP xml service you need to "convert" your text based JMS message to xml before sending it on to the "Hello" service.
Your JMS proxy can do that by just doing a "Assign <whom>{$body/text()}</whom>" to a variable (lets call it 'reqHello')
Now your JMS proxy should actually call the Hello service and since your JMS proxy is text and the Hello service is SOAP you cannot just "pass" on to the Hello service in a "Route to". Instead you can do a Service Callout where you can specify your "reqHello" variable as payload and a "respHello" as response variable.
Now you have the "<whom>Hi jack</whom>" in the response variable and since the JMS response needs to be text format you can "extract" the text value into the body variable of the JMS proxy (use "replace /* in body with $respHello/text()" - replace node contents)
The actual Hello service is a simple "SOAP" based Proxy Service. Add a pipeline and add a stage in the reponse pipeline. Do a ...
Assign fn:concat("Hi ",$body/whom/text()) to $whomVar
Replace whom in body with $whomVar (replace node contents)

OWSM 11gR1 PS2 agent to secure OSB 11g business service

Hi,
Can anyone share any resources/information on how to secure an OSB 11g business service by using OWSM 11g agent? Its a new feature released with OWSM 11gR1 PS2 (11.1.1.3.0) release. Also, can we do the same for OSB 10g?
Thanks,
Bijoy

Hi Bijoy,
Documentation is here (for PS2 with OSB 11g)-
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e15866/owsm.htm#CHDEEGJI
can we do the same for OSB 10g?No, it is not supported.
Regards,
Anuj

OSB 11g - lock jms/web-services connection

Hello!
I have next configuration:
ws client <- -> proxy service (soap/http) <- -> osb business service <- one-way ssl -> ws provider (basic authentification)
jms client <- -> proxy service (soap/jms) <- -^
Problem:
If run load test ws client - service work fine, but if in moment this test jms client send message then ws service and jms service have locks by 2 min.
ThreadStackDump contains:
"[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '39' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'" waiting for lock java.util.Vector@6a692986 BLOCKED
                 java.util.Vector.isEmpty(Vector.java:279)
                 weblogic.net.http.KeepAliveCache.get(KeepAliveCache.java:150)
                 weblogic.net.http.HttpClient.findInCache(HttpClient.java:230)
                 weblogic.net.http.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:499)
                 weblogic.net.http.HttpsURLConnection.connect(HttpsURLConnection.java:239)Do you have ideas about problem?
Thanks

The reason for asking was this type of thread locking issues requires reproducible set-up for further investigation. This type of investigation takes time/effort which might not be possible on Forums. Are you able to reproduce it consistently on other machines?If so if you can send me the reproducer, I can try analysis for you. (if time permits)
Thanks
Manoj

ALSB service monitoring implementation

We're in the process of planning an ALSB implementation and we're evaluating it's service monitoring capabilities. By default the monitoring is written to file so my understanding is that once the esb is recycled all metrics will be lost, so what we're planning to do is persist the metrics to DB. Reviewing the WLDF information, it indicates that you can use DB rather than the file store.
Wondering if anyone else has done this and if there's any recommendations or considerations for using the DB over file store, my primary concern would be around ESB performance.
Thanks in advance!

Hi Siva,
In 10g, there is no such way by which you may get the consolidated view of both your OSB and BPEL from the perspective of logs, trace files, alerts, server health checkups etc.
OSB 11g has been released and I think it should possible there (not sure as have not worked with 11g yet)
Regards,
Anuj

Some questions with respect to OSB 11g

Hi,
I am quite new to OSB 11g and have some queries.
1. If a SOA Composite transaction has been rolled back, how would be reflected in OSB. Would there be any retries?
2. For a composite to use a proxy service, is it a must to use a direct binding reference of OSB? Can't SOA composite simply consider a proxy service a generic web service?
3. Where are the debugging information written to? Can you control what is written to the debugging file? Can you specify filters,level of severity? Can you specify what context variables?
4. Does OSB only runs on WLS and is therefore not hot pluggable on other app servers?
5. One can create, attach WS-policies to my WSDL web services and enforce them on WLS all without using OWSM. If this is possible then what is the role of OWSM?
I would really appreciate any help with these queries.
Regards
Priya.

1. If a SOA Composite transaction has been rolled back, how would be reflected in OSB. Would there be any retries?
If you are calling an OSB Proxy from a SOA Composite and the transaction is terminated and rolled back from SOA Composite then OSB transaction will also be terminated and an error will be logged on OSB side. For retrying I am not sure but there should be an option in the SOA suite composite to retry.
2. For a composite to use a proxy service, is it a must to use a direct binding reference of OSB? Can't SOA composite simply consider a proxy service a generic web service?
SOA Suite composite can directly call a WSDL based Proxy Service as a generic web service. I believe it It should also be possible to invoke an XML/HTTP (Any XML Proxy Service) from SOA Suite composite. Although Direct Binding is the preferred option because of performance and security reasons.
3. Where are the debugging information written to? Can you control what is written to the debugging file? Can you specify filters,level of severity? Can you specify what context variables?
Debug information will be written into the WLS log files by default. You can log any information you want (context variables or custom data) from a Proxy Service message flow using Log action. You can control the severity of log in the Log Action.
You can define what level of Logs will be actually written to the log file and set any custom filters on Logs in the WLS Console (Home>Servers>{Your server Name}>Logging>Advanced).
If you want to enable specific debug logging at the server level(for ex if you want to log transaction details by default), you can do so by enabling needed debug logging at (Home>Servers>{Your server Name}>Debug)
4. Does OSB only runs on WLS and is therefore not hot pluggable on other app servers?
Yes OSB is only certified for WLS.
5. One can create, attach WS-policies to my WSDL web services and enforce them on WLS all without using OWSM. If this is possible then what is the role of OWSM?
Biggest difference is of Scope. You can very well attach WS Policies to services in OSB but their scope will only be of OSB. OWSM can do so at an enterprise level across various applications. OWSM also provides end to end security and SLA monitoring, easier update of Policies across enterprise etc. For more details on OWSM check out this white paper:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webservices-manager/owsm-11g-tech-wp-134065.pdf

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