Gettinng started with Oracle SOA 11 G

Getting started with oracle SOA 11G. Five things you need to get started with Oracle SOA Suite 11G

1. Oracle WebLogic server 11G R1
2. Oracle SOA suite 11g R1
3. Oracle Repository Creation Utility 11g R1
4. Oracle JDeveloper 11g R1
5. Documentation (oracle documentation)
and probably when Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 – A Hands-On Tutorial books come out it may be helpful. Not sure what the content will be but it seems that it is offering a hands-on tutorial which may or may not be good

Oracle SOA 11G

I came accross this article on the launch of Oracle SOA suite 11G. This article is written by Alex Neihaus who probably happens to work for ActiveVOS who is a primary compititor of oracle SOA suite. I am a bit surprised for somebody who has not worked with the product to come up with this. For full details of this person verdict on Oracle SOA you can find it @On the software runway, Oracle 11g can’t quite pull it off

What sid is blocking what

To find out what sid is blocking which sid you can use this query.

select b1.sid, ' IS BLOCKING ', b2.sid
from v$lock b1, v$lock b2
where b1.block =1 and b2.request > 0
and b1.id1=b2.id1
and b1.id2=b2.id2

Schedule Email Notification using Oracle BPEL

Very good step by step of how to schedule email notification using oracle BPEL can be found Schedule Email Notification using Oracle BPEL