Generate simple report from MigrationFeasibility xml (Oracle BPM 11g PS6)

With the release of Oracle BPM Suite PS6 there is a new feature called instance migration. Included in this new feature a Migration Report/Feasibility generator.

A lot of information concerning this and other migration features can be found in the Oracle documentation. (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/user.1111/e15175/bpmug_alt_flw_mig.htm#CHDBFJJA)

However after having generated the report which is bascially an XML file you will end-up with something like this.

Basically a lot of xml tags which are difficult to interpret. To give you a little indication, the file generated contains 75 lines for a simple BPM process without any integration and that has two instances. You can imagine the output for a production system...

This can all change by creating a very simple XSLT file that will transform your xml into a generated html page showing you more information that the xml could.

By using a little bit of color it will be very easy to find non-migrateble instances.

The only thing that needs to be done is add one line to your generated xml with a link to your custom MigrationReport xsl file :

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="migrationReport.xsl"?>

After this the xml can be loaded into any modern browser and you will see it displayed.

Note: The "layout" of my generated report is very poor but seeing that it generated html a very flashy report could be within reach.

EDN (Event Driven Network) debug servlet

I was recently working on some demo implementation using the well known EDN (Event Driven Network) inside Oracle SOA Suite.

However after numerous tests I kept going back into my AQ tables to see what the message was holding and how it was handled as such... Just like many others I thought to myself, there must be a better way.

That's when I found this little url :

http://soabpm-vm:7001/soa-infra/events/edn-db-log

It gives you a (basic) view of what is going on inside your EDN. Small, fast and extremely helpful. Just like we want our implementations to be.

UPDATE:
I just found out Oracle A-TEAM's Andy Knight has also blogged about this back in March of this year. For more information check their extensive blogpost : http://www.ateam-oracle.com/edn-debugging/

Use Oracle BPM 11g PS6 to quickstart your business processes

I recently wrote a blog entry on the corporate blog.

Quick and easy development that basically any IT user can do. This entire process took me only 2 hours to build and run.

Have a nice read.

http://integr8consulting.blogspot.be/2013/07/use-oracle-bpm-11g-ps6-to-quickstart.html