This morning, I started porting WA1858 Architecting SOA Using Oracle Service Bus (OSB) 10g to Oracle Service Bus 11g. I noticed that, by default Derby database is used to create various schema. This is a welcome departure from oracle SOA Suite which requires you to use an Oracle database. This complicates installation and adds overhead. I was also somewhat surprised to see that Pointbase database was not used. This is probably a good thing. Derby is also what is used by IBM’s SOA platform (WebSphere Process Server and ESB). Many of our courses have started using Derby in one way or other.
August 17, 2010 by Bibhas Bhattacharya
