What's New in This Guide for Release 11.1.1.6.x

For Release 11.1.1.6.x, this guide has been updated in several ways. The following table lists the sections that have been added or changed. If a feature was not available in the first release of 11.1.1.6.x, the last columns denote which documentation release contains the update.

For a list of known issues (release notes), see the "Known Issues for Oracle SOA Products and Oracle AIA Foundation Pack" at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/docs/soa-aiafp-knownissuesindex-364630.html.

Sections	Changes Made	11.1.1.6.0
Chapter 1 Configuring the SOA Infrastructure
Section 1.4.3, "Management of Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite"	Section revised to briefly describe GridLink support. GridLink data sources and multidata sources protect the SOA Infrastructure against database failures. For more information about Gridlink and Oracle SOA Suite, see Section "Configuring High Availability for Oracle SOA Suite" of Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide.	X
Section 1.4.3, "Management of Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite"	Section revised to briefly describe the Oracle SOA Suite plug-in introspected by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder is a tool for virtualizing installed Oracle components, modifying these components, and deploying them to your environment. For more information about the Oracle SOA Suite plug-in, see Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder User's Guide.	X
Chapter 3 Configuring the SOA Infrastructure
Section 3.1, "Configuring SOA Infrastructure Properties"	Section revised to describe the Restrict display of instances and faults to the last time_period checkbox and dropdown list for specifying a time period during which to retrieve recent instances, faults, and count metrics for display on various Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control pages. By default, this checkbox is selected and the time period duration is set to 24 hours (one day).	X
Section 3.7, "Configuring Local Optimization"	Section added to describe the condition checking performed to determine if local optimization is possible, how to override or force local optimization, and how to set local optimization logging.	X
Chapter 4 Monitoring SOA Composite Applications
Section 4.1, "Monitoring SOA Infrastructure Recent Instances and Faults and Deployed Composites"	Section revised to describe the BPEL Message Recovery Required message that indicates the retrieval of recent instances and faults that are displayed on a page is restricted to a specified time period. This message is displayed if BPEL process messages require recovery from the Recovery page of the BPEL process service engine.	X
Chapter 6 Monitoring SOA Composite Applications
Section 6.1, "Monitoring SOA Composite Application Recent Instances and Faults and Rejected Messages"	Section revised to describe the BPEL Message Recovery Required message that indicates the retrieval of recent instances and faults that are displayed on a page is restricted to a specified time period. This message is displayed if BPEL process messages require recovery from the Recovery page of the BPEL process service engine.	X
Chapter 7 Deploying and Managing SOA Composite Applications
Section 7.2, "Redeploying SOA Composite Applications"	Section revised to describe how the Redeploy SOA Composite wizard enables you to select whether to change the states of currently running instances to stale after redeployment of the SOA composite application or continue running instances upon redeployment. (This prevents these instance states from being changed to stale.)	X
Section 7.4, "Managing the State of Deployed SOA Composite Applications"	Section revised to describe what occurs when you attempt to retire or undeploy the default composite revision.	X
Chapter 8 Managing SOA Composite Application Instances
Section 8.2, "Monitoring and Deleting SOA Composite Application Instances from the Application Home Page" and Section 8.3, "Monitoring and Deleting SOA Composite Application Instances at the SOA Infrastructure Level"	Sections revised to describe how to filter the display of instances by execution state (running, completed, terminated, or stale), fault state (with or without faults), and whether a recovery action is required.	X
Chapter 9 Managing Database Growth
Section 9.3.4, "Resequenced Message Purge States for Oracle Mediator"	Section added that describes how resequenced messages are purged for Oracle Mediator when the purge scripts are run.	X
Section 9.3.5, "Purging the Instances of a Specific SOA Composite Application"	Section added that describes how to purge the instances of a specific SOA composite application and leave the instances of other composites unpurged.	X
Section 9.4.3.1, "Partitioning Constraints"	Section added that describes how to perform complete table partitioning, no table partitioning, or partial partitioning of specific tables with high growth rates.	X
Section 9.4.6, "Moving Active, Long Running Instances to a Different Partition"	Section added that describes how to move active, long running instances to a different partition. A partition can be dropped only when no instances are active.	X
Chapter 11 Diagnosing Problems with SOA Composite Applications
Chapter 11, "Diagnosing Problems with SOA Composite Applications"	Chapter added that describes how to identify Oracle SOA Suite problems early and take the proper corrective actions with the assistance of the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework (WLDF) and the Oracle Fusion Middleware Diagnostic Framework.	X
Chapter 14 Managing BPEL Process Service Components and Engines
Chapter 14, "Storing Instance and Callback Message Data in Oracle Coherence Distributed Cache on Oracle Exalogic Platforms"	Section added that describes how running Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release 1 11.1.1.6 on an Oracle Exalogic platform enables you to use the distributed cache feature of Oracle Coherence to store instance and callback message data from BPEL processes.	X
Chapter 23 Configuring Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
Section 23.11, "Oracle BAM Configuration Property Reference" (in Table 23-3)	Added information about property `EDS_Query_Timeout`, a configurable timeout for BAM Report queries.	X
Appendix B Troubleshooting Oracle SOA Suite
Section B.6.1, "Optimizing the Loading of Pages with Instance and Fault Metrics"	Section revised to describe the new methods for optimizing the loading of pages with instance and fault metrics.	X