Interoperability with Oracle Products

Oracle WebLogic Integration (WLI) interoperates with the following Oracle products:

Integration with Oracle Service Bus

Oracle Service Bus manages the routing and transformation of messages in an enterprise system. Combining these functions with its monitoring and administration capability, Oracle Service Bus provides a unified software platform for implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Oracle Service Bus integrates seamlessly with other Oracle products Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle WebLogic Portal for creating, consuming, and orchestrating services.

Integration of WLI with Oracle Service Bus provides a cost-effective solution for building, connecting, and managing integrated process-driven services within and outside the enterprise, by combining the power and flexibility of WLI with the high-performance, stateless mediation of Oracle Service Bus.

Table 1 Integration with ALSB: Features
Feature	Description
Ease of installation	You can install WLI and Oracle Service Bus in the same BEA_Home. You can deploy WLI and Oracle Service Bus applications in either a single domain (with a unified run time) or in separate domains. This feature helps you reduce hardware cost, and leverage common resources, libraries, and plug-ins.
Unified design environment	Oracle Service Bus and WLI projects can be created in the same workspace. Developers can navigate easily between Oracle Service Bus and WLI design perspectives.
Tight integration with OSB	WLI processes can invoke external services through Oracle Service Bus proxy services via Oracle Service Bus Transport controls. External clients can invoke WLI processes as Oracle Service Bus business services. Developers can, at design time, search for RMI-based Oracle Service Bus proxies and use them in WLI processes. Security and transaction contexts are seamlessly propagated from Oracle Service Bus to WLI and vice versa.
Aggregated deployment	While deploying applications, you can deploy WLI and Oracle Service Bus projects from the same workspace.

Integration with Oracle Enterprise Repository

Oracle Enterprise Repository is a SOA repository that provides the tools to manage and govern the metadata for any type of software asset, from processes and services to patterns, frameworks, applications, components, and data services. Oracle Enterprise Repository maps the relationships and interdependencies that connect those assets to improve impact analysis, promote and optimize their reuse, and measure their impact on the bottom line.

Search for services stored in Oracle Enterprise Repository and use them in WLI

You can select services from Oracle Enterprise Repository and use them in WLI processes. You can, for example, search for a specific web service, retrieve the WSDL from Oracle Enterprise Repository, and use it to generate a service control in a WLI process. You can search for assets based on keywords or the type of service (WSDL- or XML-based).

When a service that is stored in Oracle Enterprise Repository is modified, Oracle Enterprise Repository alerts existing users of the service about the change.

Store metadata about WLI artifacts in Oracle Enterprise Repository

You can store metadata about WLI assets in Oracle Enterprise Repository. The metadata includes information that can be used to make the WLI asset discoverable by other products for reuse.

Integration with Oracle Enterprise Security

Oracle Enterprise Security is a fine-grained entitlement management solution that combines centralized policy management with distributed policy decision-making and enforcement. This combination provides management and control of your critical applications and resources with uncompromised performance and reliability, allowing you to adapt to changing business requirements quickly and easily.

Integration of WLI with Oracle Enterprise Security allows administrators to implement policy-driven security, providing increased security for application- and system-level resources.

Administrators can leverage the features of Oracle Enterprise Security, such as the following:

Manage users, groups, and roles, and configure policies for applications from a single Oracle Enterprise Security administration console, regardless of whether the applications are deployed on a single WLI domain/server or on multiple WLI domains/servers.
Create user- and group-based policies for WLI in addition to role-based policies.
Create policies with conditions. A user can, for example, be permitted to start a process only on a week day.
Create policies with attributes. An employee can, for example, be permitted to start a process or execute a node of a process for only as long as the employee is in the finance department and has the role of a manager.
Use Oracle Enterprise Security run-time APIs to implement security (authentication, authorization, and so on) in WLI applications.

Integration with Oracle Data Services Platform (Oracle DSP)

Oracle DSP provides the tools and frameworks necessary for rapid development and deployment of data services. Data services encapsulate the logic for reading, writing, and transforming information, insulating data consumers from having to contend with multiple data source formats and connection mechanisms.

WLI applications can use the Oracle DSP control to access data services that are deployed using ALDSP.

Integration with Oracle Business Process Management (Oracle BPM)

Oracle BPM integrates the modeling, implementation, execution, and monitoring of end-to-end business processes to support continuous optimization of the entire business process life cycle.

WLI processes (JPDs) can be exposed as web services, which can then be called by Oracle BPM applications.