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Another nit with AquaLogic is its lack of support for integration with external data sources, such as our Oracle9i database. AquaLogic requires that such integration be service-enabled using some other mechanism, such as Web Logic Integration, and doesn't let you create a simple JDBC integration as part of the service orchestration. Cape Clear and IBM also omit this simple integration as part of their offerings, but provided the means to code a solution and include it as a service within their orchestrations. We'd like to see simple database access offered at the service bus level in all products in the future.
Configuration of foreign JMS queues is accomplished with the WLS 9.1 administration console--this was the only time we had to configure anything in WLS 9. Obviously, if database connectivity were coded at the service-enablement layer and deployed as part of the server, the JDBC configuration also would need to be configured within WLS 9 and not AquaLogic. We view this as a simple task, easily accomplished by any experienced enterprise service platform administrator.
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