The components of the Oracle SOA Suite are described in the following sections.
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Oracle BPEL Process Manager
BPEL stands for Business Process Engineering Language. As its name implies, BPEL
is a standard language that helps to ???orchestrate??? or ???choreograph??? web services to
act together. The concept of orchestration is implemented through BPEL as workflows
that describe the order and conditions under which different web services
interact. Orchestration requires explicit definitions of business processes, since the
interaction is controlled by a central process. With choreography, multiple processes
act as peers, so less information is required about the different business processes,
making this technique more appropriate for use with web services from multiple
external sources.
Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a plug-in for either Oracle??™s JDeveloper product or
the Eclipse framework. The Process Manager gives users a graphical interface to
describe process steps and interactions, as well as an engine for executing and monitoring
steps in a process.
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