What Is Oracle BPEL Process Manager

Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides a framework for easily designing, deploying, monitoring, and administering processes based on BPEL standards. Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides support for the following features: 

• Web service standards such as XML, SOAP, and WSDL
  
• Dehydration (enables the states of long-running processes to be automatically maintained in a database) and correlation of asynchronous messages
  
• Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  
• Parallel processing of tasks
  
• Fault handling and exception management during both design time and run time
  
• Event timeouts and notifications
  
• Scalability and reliability of processes
  
• Management and administration of processes
  
• Version control
  
• Audit trails for tracing business flow history
  
• Installation on multiple operating systems and integration with multiple application servers (for example, Oracle Application Server, BEA WebLogic, and JBoss) and databases.

Oracle BPEL Process Manager adds value and ease of use to BPEL functionality by providing support for the following in JDeveloper BPEL Designer:

• Transformations, workflows, worklists, notifications, and sensors
  
• Technology adapters (file, FTP, database, advanced queuing (AQ), Java Messaging Service (JMS), and Oracle Applications for Oracle E-Business Suite)
  
• Third-party adapters, including J.D. Edwards OneWorld, PeopleSoft, SAP R/3, Siebel, Tuxedo, CICS, VSAM, IMS/TM, and IMS/DB

Oracle BPEL Process Manager can also be integrated with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, Oracle Application Server Portal, Oracle Workflow, Oracle Application Server Integration B2B, and Oracle Application Server Integration InterConnect.