Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Java Caps

SOA-Suite

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, hot-pluggable software suite to build, deploy and manage Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from common capabilities including consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. It is a part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of software products.

Oracle SOA Suite's hot-pluggable architecture helps businesses lower upfront costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity. As of April 2013 Oracle Corporation markets Oracle SOA Suite version 11g Release 1 Patchset 6 (11.1.1.7).

JAVA Caps

Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS or Java CAPS), is a standards-based Enterprise Service Bus software suite from Oracle Corporation.Java CAPS has several components which help to integrate existing applications and deliver new business services in a Service Oriented Architecture environment.Java CAPS is related to the Open ESB open source project.Java CAPS was originally a product of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation named Integrated Composite Application Network Suite (ICAN). It was renamed to Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS), after the acquisition of SeeBeyond by Sun Microsystems in 2005.

ICAN suite was a Java EE compliant platform and provided application-to-application integration, business-to-business integration, business process management along with integrated humanworkflow, an Enterprise Information Portal, extract transfer and load (ETL), business activity monitoring and composite application development.

After Sun was acquired by Oracle, Oracle incorporated features and functions of Sun SOA products to Oracle SOA products. Oracle offers migration tools which helps in migration of Java CAPS projects to the Oracle SOA Suite. The premier support of Java CAPS 6.2 has been extended until January 2017.