VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Migrating Oracle WebLogic Integration applications to IBM Business Process Manager Advanced Hi, I'm Don Vines. I am the technical lead for the WebSphere Worldwide Competitive Migration Team. Some colleagues of mine and myself have written a series of articles entitled "Migrating WebLogic Integration application to the IBM BPM platform." As the technical lead of the Competitive Migration Team, I've been able to travel throughout the world the past year, and one of the things that we've noticed is that a lot of customers purchased WebLogic platform. WebLogic platform was a bundling of four products: WebLogic Integration, WebLogic Server, WebLogic Workshop and WebLogic Portal. Most customers bought it primarily for WebLogic server, and they ended up using a little bit of WebLogic integration for, you know, point to point integrations. And some of them even used it for business processes. So in migrating applications from WebLogic Server to WebSphere sometimes we see the use of the platform. One of the things that our team does is we harvest the intellectual capital while we're doing migrations and we develop some tools for a tool-assisted approach to migrate not only WebLogic Server applications, but also to migrate WebLogic Integration applications. The reason this is important is because, well, number one is some customers want to move from the WebLogic platform to WebSphere. But also most of the customers are on Version 9.x, and Version 9.x end of service is November 2013. And so customers are going to be at a point where they're going to need to decide what they want to do with their business processes or some of their point-to-point integration solutions. One possible approach for them is to move their applications, upgrade to WebLogic Integration 10.x. If they do that, though, 10.3 is the final release of that platform. It's no longer a strategic platform for Oracle. So they're going to ultimately have to migrate to another platform. Oracle does support BPEL. It does have some automated tools that will help you do the migration. But what I guess I'm here to let you know is that there are alternatives that you can consider in that moving from WebLogic Integration. We also have a set of automated tools that would help your applications to be deployed to the BPM platform and run. And as well, the BPM platform that IBM provides certainly has a BPEL solution as well. So one of the things you should consider when you're at that juncture is what your alternatives are. In this article series, we'll describe to you one of the alternatives that you have and actually the tooling that IBM has that can help you in moving from the WebLogic Integration platform to the IBM BPM platform. This article series will describe the tooling that we have. It'll describe the process. It'll describe how you apply that tooling to migrate and actual WLI application to BPM. It's a four-part series. The first part is an introduction to the series, and it primarily just describes the tools and the process. The second part of the series talks about how you're going to be able to reuse all of your data types that you're using in your WebLogic Integration applications. Those data types were usually defined using XMLBeans, whereas the BPM platform uses SDO for its internal data types. And so we have a solution that can map for XMLBeans into SDO so that you can leverage all your existing data types that you currently have, and the source code or the application artifacts that leverage those data types. The third part of the series talks about how you migrate the WLI adapters or custom controls into the BPM adapters. The fourth part of the series pulls all the pieces together by showing how you actually migrate a full business process from running on WebLogic Integration to running on the IBM BPM platform. END OF SEGMENT SERIES URL: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/bpm/library/techarticles/1306_vines/1306_vines.html