1. Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite
  2. Completing Your Application
  3. Deploying SOA Composite Applications
  4. Customizing Your Application for the Target Environment Before Deployment
  5. How to Use Configuration Plans to Customize SOA Composite Applications for the Target Environment
  6. Introduction to Use Cases for a Configuration Plan
  7. How to Use a Configuration Plan when Creating Environment-Independent Processes

How to Use a Configuration Plan when Creating Environment-Independent Processes

The following steps provide an overview of how to use a configuration plan when creating environment-independent processes:

Note:

This use case is useful for users that have their own development server and a common development and testing server if they share development of the same process. Users that share the same deployment environment (that is, the same development server) may not find this use case as useful.

  1. User A creates SOA composite application Foo.

  2. User A deploys Foo to their development server, fixes bugs, and refines the process until it is ready to test in the staging area.

  3. User A creates a configuration plan for Foo, which enables the URLs and properties in the process to be modified to match the settings for User A's environment.

  4. User A checks in Foo and the configuration plan created in Step 3 to a source control system.

  5. User B checks out Foo from source control.

  6. User B makes a copy of the configuration plan to match their environment and applies the new configuration plan onto Foo's artifacts.

  7. User B imports the application into Oracle JDeveloper and makes several changes.

  8. User B checks in both Foo and configuration plan B (which matches user B's environment).

  9. User A checks out Foo again, along with both configuration plans.