Oracle BPM (ALBPM) Resources

This is a quick post to put all publicly available Oracle BPM resources all together to avoid wasting time doing pointless searches.

Technical Forums:
Oracle Business Process Management Suite

Forum in Simplified Chinese:
http://cn.forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=315

Downloads:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/bpm/index.html

or go to http://edelivery.oracle.com/

Documentations:

Oracle BPM Configuration Matrix

10gR3
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13154_01/bpm/docs65/index.html

Docs for previous version are no longer available on edocs.bea.com for some reason. Well, we can still access them via the links below. But I have no idea how long they are going to last.

6.0
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs60/index.html

5.7
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs57/index.html

5.5
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs55/index.html

Patches:

Where to download Oracle BPM patches now?

Where to download Oracle BPM patches now?

The legacy BEA site will be ditched soon. We can see that http://albpmsupport.bea.com is no longer updated. Latest Oracle BPM patches are not listed there any more.

All Oracle customers are redirected to Metalink for all product support and patches.

After logging in Metalink, do a quick search with keywords 'albpm hotfix' and there will be a KB article with instructions on how to download Oracle BPM patches from 5.5 to 10gR3 or above.

Subject: How to download Oracle BPM (OBPM) patch (HotFix ) or patchset / maintenance or service Pack (MP / SP) using Oracle Metalink.

Steps:

• Once logged in the Metalink, click on “Patches and Updates”
• Click on “Advanced Search”
• Product or Product Family: Click on the flashlight, on the search window enter “BPM” and click “Go”. The search result should show “Oracle Business Process Management Suite (beaalbpm)” product. Check the “Select” box (or click on “Check all”) and click on “Select” button.
• Now you should see Oracle Business Process Management Suite (beaalbpm) in the Product or Product Family search field.
• Select the Release: click on the flashlight near the “Release” search field and choose the appropriate version.
• Ignore the rest of the search criteria and click “Go”
• You should get all the list of available Oracle BPM patches and patchsets.
• Please verify the build number, the product (Studio, Enterprise SA and EnterpriseJEE) and the type (Patch / Hotfix or Patchset / MP ).

Hope this helps the confused and frustrated users.

Oracle BPM 10gR3 MP1 and hotfix

It was release on Jan/6/2009. As published on legacy BEA website, some of you guys may not be aware of the existence of the Maintenance Pack.

Again, please check http://albpmsupport.bea.com on a regular basis if you work on OBPM. One thing I don't understand is that why don't use a better publishing platform for the patch-set/hotfix site? Even a RSS feed would be much nicer in such a Web 2.0 era, it's easy!

10gR3 MP1 which is 10.3.1.0.0.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/bpm/index.html

It's good to find a direct link without using edelivery to download the media.

I am surprised to see the final birth of a official Mac OS X version of Studio for 10gR3 MP1 for Mac OS X. I am not a big Mac fan, but I am still glad to see OS X is supported by Oracle, maybe later OS X server, you reckon?

It seems that the newly supported platform hasn't been added to all of the release notes yet. Even the recommended official config matrix page, it has been weeks after the release...
check:

Enjoy! A late happy new year to all of you who is lucky enough to see this post!^_^