Day 4 – real-world stuff:
* business rules
* human workflow
* integrating java apps
Great agenda – let’s finally get a look at how this technical solution will work for the business world.
Business Rules are a small component of the SOA Suite. I love the concept – create an abstracted layer for business rules so business users can make changes freely through a nice user interface without the need for a code change. Great – great concept!
Unfortunately, the Oracle solution will only get you half of the way there in my opinion. To say the UI is more unfriendly than the rest of their apps is a safe statement. It looks like a product that they acquired years ago and never really invested anything else into it. Binary files behind the scenes, no web services hooks – pretty ugly. However, it does have an API so at least you can put the lipstick on the pig. (See InRule.com for a more friendly BRE)
Human workflow – awesome stuff. Unfortunately we didn’t get very much into this topic because of an all-day lab exercise. I need to continue to explore the interface to approving or completing tasks within the product. I couldn’t tell if the dashboard I was working through in a lab was a free lab add-on or part of the SOA Suite. I was pretty impressed with the technology’s ability to query a directory for escalation paths – that’s neat stuff, especially when you get into the SLA conversation.
Java integration – it’s doable, right in BPEL. Nice stuff, but not my cup of tea…
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