In SOA Suite 11g, Enterprise Manager provides a wide variety of monitoring and management functions to an administrator.  At most customers I have worked at this level of control is not given to all users, especially in QA/UAT or Production environments.  Fortunately, Enterprise Manager provides functionality to provide different levels of access to different users and groups.  At a current customer we need to provide a group of users and developers access to view service status and health, composite instances, and audit trails.

During a recent project at a customer I was designing and building several stateful and possibly long running BPEL processes that all interacted with each other in SOA Suite 11g.  These processes would be required to read and write data to many different DB tables as well as integrate into 6+ web services and 1-2 MQ services.  We decided that separating out the DB data access and service integration into different composites from the processes would provide several benefits such as: