Summary

Organizations that have adopted SOA Suite 10g will probably think about migration to the SOA Suite 11g release. Many rewards can be reaped from such a migration. Undoubtedly, SOA Suite 11g will offer potential benefits due to the many enhancements over the 10g release. However, it depends on the specific situation of an organization whether and which of these potential rewards are relevant and outweigh the effort required by and risks posed by the migration.

Migration from SOA Suite 10g to the 11g release is not to be undertaken lightly. Even though the migration process is relatively straightforward, it certainly is not trivial. It requires some (substantial) effort, in several areas. Migration will impact the run-time infrastructure, the currently deployed applications, the procedures and automated scripts for building, deploying, administering, and testing, and possibly the consumers of the services. During the migration, care must be taken to prevent (prolonged) periods of downtime. The developers and administrators of SOA applications will experience considerable changes, too. Although this forces a relatively short learning curve on them, they will soon benefit from richer functionality and higher productivity.