Release Notes

Introduction

This document provides information about the WebLogic Integration^{^TM} 8.1 Service Pack 6 (SP6) release. For WebLogic Platform^{^TM} release information, see Release Notes available at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/docs81/interm/relnotes.html

Topics Included in this Section

What's New in BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6

Describes features supported in the WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6 release, such as enhancements to Event generators, Integration Controls and Business Process Management. It also includes information about enhancements and problems fixed for this release.

Platform Support and System Requirements

Provides a link to the Supported Configurations documentation.

Tutorials

Provides a list of tutorials and samples provided in WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6.

Adapters

Provides information about adapters that can be used in the application integration framework.

What's New in BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6

This release includes several performance and feature enhancements. The following sections describe the enhancements available in this release.

For a list of problems fixed in the WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6 release, see Problems Fixed in This Release.

Enhancements to Event Generators and Integration Controls

You can now modify details of weblogic.jws.InternalJMSConnFactory other than at the domain-level. The Queue connection factory can be configured for all Event Generators, Publish and Process Control.
The ftpToLocal() API has been introduced in FileControl for FTP operations to provide a single FileControl to copy a set of remote files to a local directory.
Dynamic transformation of MFL data is supported for input streams. However, the transformed result has to exist in memory as it does not support both input and output streams. For more information, see "Dynamic Transformation Control" in Using Integration Controls in WebLogic Workshop Help.

Business Process Management

The event generator triggers events once in the lifetime of the server, which is at server start-up. It is triggered every time the server restarts.
A new "is Skippable" option is added to the Timer Generator Channel Rule Definition. When an event defined as "is Skippable" fires, the scheduled time is compared to the server start time. If the start time occurred after the event time, it is assumed that the server was down when the event was fired and the event is skipped.
A new method is available that preserves message context for an application whenever all retries have been exhausted. JWS processing has a similar method for asynchronous despatcher failure callbacks.
You can set a global 'freeze on failure' to a JPD using a transaction node property.

Platform Support and System Requirements

For information about platform support, including hardware and software requirements, see the BEA Supported Configurations documentation at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/suppconfigs/index.html

Tutorials

To get hands-on experience with WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6, we recommend that you try out the following tutorials listed in this section. In addition, try out the WebLogic Workshop^® tutorials that are available at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13226_01/workshop/docs81/doc/en/workshop/guide/navTutorials.html

Tutorials and Samples for WebLogic Integration

WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6 provides the following tutorials and samples:

Note: The following samples are provided on dev2dev for your convenience and are not supported by BEA.

TIBCO RV Control and Event Generator Sample

This sample application implements a simple loan processing application that uses request/reply, certified messaging and TIBCO event generator headers.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13214_01/wli/docs81/tibcorv/sample.html

Solution Samples

These samples provide working code plus build and configuration scripts that demonstrate best practices in implementing various application scenarios. The samples provide generalized solution architectures that are tuned for performance and scalability. To learn more see "Solution Samples," available at the following URL:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13214_01/wli/docs81/sol_samples/index.html

Adapters

The application integration framework provides the following key features to enable the integration of diverse enterprise systems:

Standards-based architecture for hosting J2EE Connector Architecture (J2EE-CA) based adapters that connect enterprise applications to WebLogic Server^®.
Application views for both event and service adapters.

For more information on adapters supported in this release, see:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13207_01/wladapters/docs81/index.html

To download the adapters, use the following URL:

http://commerce.bea.com/products/weblogicadapters/wl_adapter_home.jsp

Introduction

Topics Included in this Section

What's New in BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 SP6

Enhancements to Event Generators and Integration Controls

Business Process Management

Platform Support and System Requirements

Tutorials

Tutorials and Samples for WebLogic Integration

Adapters

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