Oracle SOA Suite 11g upcoming features

Friday we had a nice update from Demed L'Her from the SOA product management team. The next (and first) patch set should include:

• Singleton Adapter Service -- allows you to lock down inbound adapters to a single server in a cluster
• Pre/Post processing hooks in the file adapter
• SAR export -- the idea being here that since you can dynamically change policies and other aspects of a deployed composite, this feature will allow you to export the code as it is. One point we discussed was the need to diff this with the code from source code control. this should be possible by importing into JDeveloper.
• Web-based screens to edit business rules and DVM values
• Monitor express -- this allows you to monitor processes at a system level via pre-built monitoring dashboards in BAM

More features that will come a little later:

• Slick SOA Composite/Spring integration
• BPEL 2.0
  
• 10g to 11g instance migration -- this is a big one for those trying to migrate away but that have long-running BPEL processes.
  

I have to mention that they are also working on the developer install experience. This will be a while but will be much appreciated.