Oracle upgrade SOA solutions including key ebXML support

Oracle announced today at their Oracle OpenWorld conference a series of SOA-related upgrades, including the availability of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3.

Included in this release is support for key industry technology standards such as Electronics Product Code (EPCGlobal) for RFID, ebXML (Electronic Business Markup Language for XML), HL7, RosettaNet, EDI X12, EDIFact, EDI AS/2 (EDI over the Internet) and others.

Oracle provides a full ebXML CPA editor (collaboration profile agreement) for quickly configuring partner exchanges in Oracle registry services, and then support for ebMS v1 and ebMS v2 based message exchanges with full integration in the transformation and SOA routing services including the BPEL server module in 10g release 3.

"Standards have always been central to Oracle's product strategy because our customers are looking for simplicity, choice and interoperability in their IT environments," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president of Oracle Server Technologies, in a statement to eWeek magazine.

The announcement is also carried in CIOL magazine for readers in Asia.