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to other service-based and process-centric applications. This makes it highly
pluggable with your existing enterprise IT infrastructure. Oracle SOA Suite 11g
can be installed to run on any number of standards compliant application servers
including Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere, and Red Hat JBoss, and
can run on any number of certified database management systems such as the
Oracle Database, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server.
What differentiates Oracle SOA Suite 11g from other comparable products on
the market is the consolidation of the stack into a unified service platform that
translates into major user benefits.
Service Component Architecture (SCA)
,
an emerging standard, is the key enabler here. SCA enables you to manage,
version, and deploy components and metadata as a single unit. All artifacts are
stored in a single repository, the
Metadata Store (MDS)
. But the story doesn't
stop here, Oracle SOA Suite 11g also consolidates all the runtime into a modular
architecture of engines plugging into a common service infrastructure. And the
engine consolidation naturally leads to a rationalization of the monitoring infra-
structure, still maintaining a vendor neutral J2EE platform! All of this translates
into numerous design-time, runtime, and monitoring benefits, many of which we
will explore throughout this topic.
