It is Not “BPM vs. BPEL”

It is Not “BPM vs. BPEL”

I’m not trying to sway the BPM vs. BPEL argument one way or the other, but I’d simply like to say that it is not a “vs.”. Both have uses and both are synergistic with the other. If you use Oracle BPM, you’re able to use BPEL as well for...
It is Not “BPM vs. BPEL”

Message Aggregation in Oracle SOA Suite 12c

Within the Oracle SOA Suite, message aggregation is a concept that allows for multiple messages to be routed to the same BPEL process, based on a value(s) defined within the incoming payload. This is implemented within BPEL through the use of correlation sets. ...
It is Not “BPM vs. BPEL”

How to Make BPEL Gulp

I recently had a customer who needed to consolidate data from several legacy databases (Sybase, DB2, and Oracle 10g) and then copy the transformed result set to a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. This was clearly an ETL use case so, being a good consultant, I...
It is Not “BPM vs. BPEL”

BPEL Date & Duration Manipulation

Dates are a common type seen in XML documents.  Many times when working on a project, the schema will use a date field but have it set to a string type.  When a date comes into the process as a string, the representation is not standardized and can come in a...