New features SOA Suite 11g

* Composite Applications
With a functional design on a logical level an application is one component. When building the application functionality is split up over multiple technical components, for example BPEL, Java, database or file adapters, business rules and human workflow. So complexity goes up and maintenance, build, test, etc goes up as well. By the way which SOA Suite 11g approaches composite applications using the SCA assembly model, complexity will not get out of hand, while retaining possibilities to easily reuse (previously created or out of the box supplied) assets.
* OER
Oracle Enterprise Repository will be getting more integrated as 11g matures.
* AIA PIPs
More PIPs will be created by Oracle or in conjuction with clients or third parties (like Capgemini).
* JCA
A JCA-based connectivity infrastructure will provide an embedded policy manager for security.
* Business rules
Business rules take a more important role in 11g. The 'Decide' activity is even replaced by the business rule activity. In the next release there will also be a webbased GUI for (business analysts) users to modify the business rules directly at runtime.
* SOA Fabric
In the coming releases a more integrated SOA Fabric will be introduced.