In computing

Computing

Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...

, Oracle SOA Suite is a part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware consists of several software products from Oracle Corporation. OFM spans multiple services, including Java EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management...

 family of software products.

Features

Oracle SOA Suite is a set of service infrastructure components for building, deploy

Software deployment

Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. These activities can occur at the producer site or at the consumer site or both...

ing, and managing SOA

Service-oriented architecture

In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...

s. Oracle SOA Suite enables system developers to set up and manage services and to orchestrate them into composite applications and business process

Business process

A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for a particular customer or customers...

es. With Oracle SOA Suite's hot-plugable components, organizations can easily extend and evolve their architectures instead of replacing existing investments.

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

 publishes product strategy, product details and customer stories relating to the SOA Suite at http://www.oracle.com/soa.

As of November 2010 Oracle Corporation markets Oracle SOA Suite version 11g Release 1 Patchset 2 (11.1.1.3).
As of January 2011 Oracle Corporation markets Oracle SOA Suite version 11g Release 1 Patchset 3 (11.1.1.4).

Components

• Oracle BPEL Process Manager
  Oracle BPEL Process Manager
  Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a BPEL engine that is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. It enables enterprises to orchestrate disparate applications and Web services into business processes...
  
  
• Oracle Web Services Manager, a security and monitoring product for web services
• Oracle Business Rules
• Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
  Business activity monitoring
  Business activity monitoring is software that aids in monitoring of business activities, as those activities are implemented in computer systems....
  
  
• Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
  Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
  Oracle Enterprise Service Bus is a fundamental component of Oracle's Services-Oriented Architecture that provides a loosely-coupled framework for inter-application messaging....
  
  
• Oracle Service Registry
• Oracle JDeveloper

External links

• Product page