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Evolution of integration technologies
Organizations iteratively work on improving and modifying business processes to stay
competitive in the market. This requires application implementations to be more flex-
ible that by design adapt to the changes in business processes. In other words,
most enterprise businesses need agility in creating and maintaining applications to
run mission-critical businesses functions, and that requires a platform to quickly cre-
ate and update business process and/or workflow services. Usually these business
process services are composite services that depend on the multiple services with-
in and between enterprises. The application's platform, that enables mission-critical
business processes online, is easy to maintain if they are developed using technology
components such as SOA and BPEL.
This topic uses the JDeveloper IDE for designing and validating BPEL services and
Oracle BPEL Process Manager (part of SOA Suite) platform, which has a runtime en-
gine, for BPEL services.
