States meaning for Instances

This is an enhanced version of my own blog dated 08-Aug-2008, BPEL: Purging Instances-1, which suggests about various States stored in Dehydration store. Earlier information was for SOA 10g interface States stored in Cube_instances, This blog is about the same but for SOA 11g.

Problem: To know the meaning of States stored under CUBE_INSTANCE table of SOA_INFRA Schema

Explanation:

Value: 0

Meaning: Initiated

Description: for an instance that has just been newly created

Value: 1

Meaning: Open & Running

Description: for an instance that has been created and has active activities executing

Value: 2

Meaning: Open & Suspended

Description: for an instance that is unavailable & is in suspended state. No action can be taken for this instance until the instance has returned to the running state

Value: 3

Meaning: Open & Faulted

Description: for an instance that has an activity that has thrown an exception. When an activity throws an exception, the instance is flagged as being in an exception state until the exception is properly caught and handled

Value: 4

Meaning: Open & Pending

Description: for an instance that is in mid of cancellation. An instance is said to be pending cancellation state - it may happen that the process is quite big & complicated that the entire cancellation process may takes anywhere from seconds/minutes/days. An instance may not be acted upon during this time

Value: 5

Meaning: Closed & Completed

Description: for an instance that has been completed i.e. All activities belonging to this instance have also been completed

Value: 6

Meaning: Closed & Faulted

Description: for an instance that has an activity that has thrown an exception while the instance is being cancelled

Value: 7

Meaning: Closed & Cancelled

Description: for an instance that has been cancelled. All activities belonging to this instance have also been cancelled

Value: 8

Meaning: Closed & Aborted

Description: for an instance that has been aborted due to administrative control. All activities belonging to this instance are also moved to the aborted state

Value: 9

Meaning: Closed & Stale

Description: for an instance who's process has been changed since the process was last accessed. No actions may be performed on the instance. All activities that belong to this instance are also moved to the stale state

Value: 10

Meaning: Non Recoverable

Description: for an instance that has failed and is marked as non recoverable

ORACLE AIA

Today instead of posting something on technical side, I thought of sharing something on Oracle AIA (again), which is the current buzz in the market.

FIRST LOOK:
Oracle AIA (Application Integration Architecture) is developed to widely-accepted open standards. Like everything new from Oracle, AIA revolves around the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept. It thus represents a first step toward Fusion Applications – one that can be taken without the need for massive conversions or retraining. Hundreds of specific cases where sophisticated application integration is needed have already been identified.
Most IT environments, especially within larger organizations, consist of a variety of applications from a mix of vendors, not to mention custom–made software. It is increasingly necessary to automate business processes that cross the boundaries between these applications. However, creating solutions that obtain data and use the logic of multiple divergent applications tends to be time consuming and complex. Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is Oracle’s proposed approach to reducing the cost and complexity of doing so.

WHAT IS IT?
Let’s define AIA: AIA is a set of standards and rules by which Oracle and its partners can create elegant bridges between applications. Oracle will use AIA to insure that all of them are built the same way using a common approach and set of standards .This is a framework which contains the functionality of various ERP applications owned by Oracle like - Oracle E-Business, Siebel, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft which can be recombined and tailored to enterprise needs.

Technical products inside Application Integration Architecture (Till date*)
1. BPEL Process Manager
2. BPEL Repository
3. E-Business Suite
4. Siebel
5. Adapters
6. Oracle Warehouse Builder
**More in AIA framework regarding JDE and PeopleSoft will be added soon.

COMPONENTS OF AIA:
• Best practices Processes
• Foundation Pack
• PIP (Process Integration Packs)

DISCOVER THE TREASURE:
To make your AIA treasure hunt much easier, here I am providing you with some of the useful links:
• Oracle AIA:
http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-application-integration-architecture.html
• AIA Documentation:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/intarch.html
• PIPs:
http://www.oracle.com/applications/process-integration-packs.htm
• Oracle AIA Foundation Pack:
http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-foundation-pack.html
• List of validated integrations:
http://www.oracle.com/partnerships/isv/integration/search.html

Happy learning...

AIA : Oracle Application Integration Architecture

AIA (Application Integration Architecture) is an integration architecture framework proposed by Oracle. It strongly recommends industry to start following this framework to build future integration packs for various business use cases. Oracle AIA is a set of products that enables companies to create greater alignment between IT and business strategy, so when business needs to react, IT can react with it.

Fusion middleware SOA products are the underlying products used in implementing AIA framework. AIA Framework is delivered as AIA Foundation Pack by Oracle. AIA Foundation Pack comprises of the following components

1. Enterprise Business Objects (EBO)
2. Enterprise Business Service (EBS)
3. SOA Governance Tools (BSR, CAVS and Error logging and resolution framework)
4. Reference Architecture

Process Integration Packs (PIPs) which are available with Application Integration Architecture are as under:

1.Siebel CRM On Demand Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite.
2.Siebel CRM Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Order Management.
3.Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications.
4.Siebel Life Sciences Integration Pack for Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System.
5.Siebel CRM Integration Pack for Oracle Trade Promotion Management.
6.Siebel CRM Integration Pack for i-flex's FLEXCUBE Account Origination - Liability Products.

To know more on Oracle AIA, refer to the link mentioned below:

http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-application-integration-architecture.html