Oracle BPA Suite 10.1.3.4 is now available from Oracle and has some cool enhancements:
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We have been using BPA Suite since beta, but for those of you who don’t already know, Oracle BPA Suite provides tools for process modeling and simulation, with integration to Oracle SOA Suite (BPEL).
Note: At time of writing, the […]

From the Cluster Topology page of Enterprise Manager Application Server Control, you get a hierarchical view of your OC4J Instances and their applications. You can click into each to undeploy, but sometimes you want to undeploy multiple applications (like multiple human tasks from your undeployed BPEL processes — since the BPEL Console undeploy does […]

I return again to my APEX SQL command box, break open my books and guides, and prepare once more to do battle. In the time I spent away from it, I had many concepts and ideas floating in my head, and rather than do the smart thing and look them up in the book, I […]

So you want to learn SQL. Not a problem. You want to learn ORACLE SQL, not a problem. You have no knowledge of SQL, not a real problem. All you need is some patience, access to a computer and the internet, and a little bit a familiarity with how to use a computer. I was […]

The basics are firmly inside my head. I can find data, manipulate it, massage it, modify it, and put it back either as it was, or in a new state. But there was still a lot to go over.
Views make the world appear differently. The concept was familiar to me, although under a different concept. […]

This is a very, very common complaint I hear from developers, testers, and production support.
I find there are a couple reasons that this can happen:
1. The flow has faulted sometime after the wait activity, but never dehydrated again, so it appears to be “stuck” on the wait activity. Put in some more waits to […]

Are you running out of disk space because your domain.log is growing too fast?

Open BPEL_HOME/domains//config/log4j-config.xml
Change the appender class from com.collaxa.cube.util.CXRollingFileAppender to org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
Add a new parameter:

<param value="50MB" name="MaxFileSize" />

Here is an example of what the file should look like in the end:

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
<appender class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender" name="A1">
<param value="true" name="ImmediateFlush" />
<param value="false" name="Append" />
<param value="D:/soa/product/10.1.3.1/as_1/bpel/domains/default/logs/domain.log" name="File" />
<param value="50MB" name="MaxFileSize" […]