SOA 12c - Get Started With MDS

Oracle has introduced couple of new features in Oracle SOA Suite 12c. I have listed couple of new features that Oracle introduced for developer in my post. These new features really make developers life easy as these reduce development cycle.

Here we discuss about MDS and what all featured introduced in that. As we know MDS is used to store artifacts like WSDL, XSD, XSLT etc. we have two types of MDS, File based MDS and DB based MDS. In Oracle SOA 12c, when we use default server which is integrated with Jdeveloper then we can use only Design Time MDS (File Based MDS), Run Time MDS (DB Based MDS) is not supported.

Check this post to create design time MDS connection.

In Oracle SOA 12c release, Oracle provided couple of new options that we can use when we use Design Time MDS, these options were not there in 11g.  Below are options available with Design Time MDS.

• Create and Delete folders
• Export and Import MDS artifacts
• Transfer Artifacts between MDS repositories

In this post, we discussed these options one by one.

Get started with Oracle SOA 12c.

Create and Delete Folders

We can simple add and remove folders from design time MDS repository.

To add a new folder to it, simply right click on the apps folder and choose “Create Folder”.

To delete the folder, right-click on the folder and delete it.

Export and Import MDS Artifacts

We can export MDS artifacts from one repository and import it to other repository. This is helpful when we want to add artifacts from Design time repository to run time repository.

To export the MDS artifacts, right-click on MDS repository and choose “Export to Jar”.

We can import the Jar to any other repository, to do that right click on the repository and choose “Import from Jar”.

Transfer artifacts between repositories

We can also transfer the files from one repository to another, to transfer the file right click on the file which we want to transfer and choose the target repository.

Click here to see how to share MDS artifacts to SOA Design Time Repository.

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