How to automate building and deploying a BPEL application

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How to automate building and deploying a BPEL application

I need to automate the building and deployment of (several) BPEL applications to a weblogic server.

I now do it using jDeveloper 11g, but I guess there should be some command line tools to do it. (I come from a Microsoft /.NET / Visual Studio background, and I can automate the deployment of my .NET applications using the command line and msbuild)

Does anyone know how to do that via the command line?

I don't have any experience with BPEL on Oracle WebLogic but according to this documentation a BPEL application is packaged as a standard EAR. I don't know exactly how your sources are structured under JDeveloper but you best option here to automate the packaging and the deployment of this EAR is IMO to use Ant (or Maven but if all this is totally new for you I would recommend using Ant).

Maybe this tutorial can help you to get started for the packaging part (basically, how to use the ear task). And for the deployment, I suggest to use the wldeploy Ant task (which wraps the weblogic.Deployer utility). I've mentioned them in this recent answer.

Also have a look at this question, it seems that JDeveloper might have some support to achieve this task (but I have zero knowledge of it so I can't provide any guidance, JDeveloper is not really widely used).

Pascal Thivent 2010-01-29 21:12:56

I'm going to use Cruise Control, so I'd like to use command line tools (not ant tasks). I'll check out some of those links

Juan Manuel 2010-02-01 14:05:58

@Juan Invoking an Ant script is perfectly suitable for cruisecontrol (that's the common use case) but maybe I'm missing something.

Pascal Thivent 2010-02-01 14:09:43

I asked the QC department, and they told me I have the ability to use Hudson, which I believe can use Ant Tasks, so perhaps I'll just do that then

Juan Manuel 2010-02-01 14:16:45

Oh, I never did that from CC, perhaps you're right. I'll go with hudson though that's more likely to deal with Java than CC

Juan Manuel 2010-02-01 14:18:53

Both CC and Hudson can deal with Java but if you have the choice, pick up Hudson, it's much easier to use. And let me insist, Ant (or Maven) are the common tools to automate a Java build and Ant/Maven can be invoked by any decent continuous integration engine.

Pascal Thivent 2010-02-01 14:50:17

@Pascal: I assume this is BPEL Process Manager. If so, the core application is deployed as an EAR, but the actual BPEL processes are not; in Oracle SOA Suite 10g, BPEL processes are packaged as BPEL Suitcases (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/integrate.1013/b28981/deployproc.htm), and in Oracle SOA Suite 11g, they are packaged as SOA Composite applications (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/integration.1111/e10224/sca_lifecycle.htm).

markusk 2010-05-16 20:11:03

@markusk Not sure it deserves a downvote but nevermind...

Pascal Thivent 2010-05-16 20:41:53

@Pascal: You gave a good answer on how to deploy generic enterprise applications (EAR) on WebLogic. However, my guess is that this is not what the questioner needed; he needs to know how to automate deployment of BPEL processes, which does not involve EARs at all, and has a different set of deployment tools.

markusk 2010-05-17 07:55:42

I assume you are using Oracle SOA Suite 11g? If so, have a look at Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite, particularly the section 38.7 Deploying SOA Composite Applications and the subsection 38.7.5 Managing SOA Composite Applications with Scripts.

You may also find useful advice in the Oracle BPEL forums.

markusk 2010-05-16 20:06:05

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