Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at the more advanced messaging constructs supported by the Oracle SOA Suite, and how we can use this to support some of the more complex but relatively common message interaction patterns used in a typical SOA deployment.

We have also used this as an opportunity to introduce some of the more advanced BPEL activities and features such as the Pick and FlowN activity, as well as dynamic partner links.

While we have not covered every possible pattern, hopefully you should now have a good understanding of how the SOA Suite utilizes WS-Addressing, as well as how we can leverage correlation sets in BPEL to support message interactions that go beyond a single synchronous or asynchronous request and reply. You should ...

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