Quick Start Oracle SOA Suite 12c

Quick Start Oracle SOA Suite 12

Friday 27th Juni Oracle SOA Suite 12c became available for download.
The SOA Community informed me about it by email and send me the following link:

https://soacommunity.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/soa-suite-12c-is-available-for-download/

I can't wait to give it a look and I installed the Suite at Saterday 28th.

Here you can find some notes about this journey.

First of all you need to download the product, as you already thought so :-)
There is a Quick Start Install Guide for developers available and I recommend to use that one when you want quickly start testing the product. This guide can be found here: http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/core/SOAQS/index.html

As stated in the guide we have three different domain configurations available. This means how Oracle SOA Suite is preconfigured. The given domain configurations are:

• Default Domain: Oracle WLS with SOA Suite and OSB are available as integrated WLS directly from JDeveloper. This options is the quickest and easiest way to start with the product for evaluation purposes.
• Standalone Domain: Next to JDeveloper you have to install a standalone WLS. This looks like a normal development environment and this was the only way to go with the 11g version. You have to start WLS separately from JDeveloper and you have to create a Application Server connection to it.
• Compact Domain: I didn't try this one yet (next post?) and you should you this when you want to try the now components like Enterprise Scheduler, Managed File Transfer, B2B or BAM.

Just follow the Quick Guide it will lead you where you want to go.

I took the Standalone Domain installation because I want to use the OSB console without the need to start JDeveloper first.

When everything is running I recommend to create a HelloWorld sample application. I usually create it with a Mediator and a Echo Callback routing rule.

When you want to test 12c with a more advanced sample than I recommend to download the sample from the link below:
https://java.net/projects/oraclesoasuite12c/pages/SOASuite12cQuickStartSampleApplications

The Quick Start Guide also explains how this sample can be deployed and run, see chapter 7 how.
But the guide also talks about a the sample file called SampleOrder.xml and I was not able to find it. So I run the test with the default generated payload and it worked fine.

The next thing to do is creating something more by yourself. For this there is an tutorial available from java.net (at the given link above).
In the next post I will write about my experiences regarding this.