Oracle SOA suite

Oracle announces the new SOA suite of products. Some of thisproducts have been available for a while but this announce is intended to consolidate the Oracle SOA vision:

Oracle announced it has begun shipping a set of middleware products for building, deploying, and managing SOAs. The Oracle SOA suite includes what the vendor calls “hot-pluggable” capabilities that enable customers to install Oracle functions alongside of those of other vendors.

The suite consists of components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and is interoperable with both Oracle and non-Oracle application servers and messaging buses, including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and JBoss Application Servers.

The Oracle SOA Suite includes Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a native Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine for Web services orchestration; Oracle ESB, which connects existing IT systems and business partners as a set of services; and Oracle Web Services Manager, which provides a console for defining and enforcing Web services policies. Additional features include Oracle Business Rules Engine, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle JDeveloper 10