Feature Review of Oracle SOA 12c

The next major release of SOA Suite will be coming soon somewhere in early 2014(No confirm timeline yet). 

SOA 10g to 11g upgrade brought some radical changes to the complete SOA stack due to the architectural and conceptual changes. While this release is more feature rich and geared towards Cloud Integration & better OSB integration to SOA stack.

Oracle showcased SOA 12c in Oracle OpenWorld, 2013. Some of the feature highlight of the coming release I'm putting in this post. 

• JDeveloper and Em Console has undergone some changes due to the inclusion of OSB support. OSB also gets a SCA like makeover wherein you will have Proxy, Business service, Split-Joins.
• Em Admin console integrates OSB services and will provide single point of access to monitor and manage both SOA & OSB services.
•  SCA composites can be run directly from JDeveloper with its integrated server just like standalone applications. This means debugging and deployment should be a lot easier & you can try out new changes immediately.
• Cloud adapter for Cloud integration.
•  Inclusion of MFT(Managed File Transfer) for large file transfer

There will be more in the final version with Weblogic 12.1.x  brings Dynamic Cluster & Elastic JMS. In all it will be a more unified product(with OSB support) and cloud ready.