Deployment too fast?

When doing configuration management on your SOA application to various environments; development, test, acceptance and production. You would use you on mechanism for deployment.

• CruiseControl
• Maven
• Oracle SOA Build System

What I found out during some SOA projects, that your build system is too fast for the de Oracle SOA Suite server. When deploying a lot of BPEL processes and ESB services, you sometimes get strange errors. This is related that WSDL files cannot be found or strange errors when registering ESB services. The solution is very simple.

Introduce a wait time between each deployment. Choose this delay between 4 and 10 seconds.

After deployment, the system needs to take care that everything is in place. This will take some time. Therefore a new deployment directly after the previous one, could result in errors.

Marc