Coach Views are new feature in version 8.0 and enable reuse of custom, user-defined coach controls, sections and templates. In practice, this means that we can build one control for a certain business object and use it on multiple user interfaces in multiple human tasks. Because business processes are usually all about modifying a business object through a series of steps, performed by various participants, this is an extremely useful option which saves us a lot of redundant work.

In this blog we will take a look at how to build them and how to use them within coaches.

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Few days ago, Oracle released pre-configured Oracle SOA/BPM Suite 11g PS5 (11.1.1.6) VirtualBox image that is available for testing and evaluation purposes.

The VirtualBox image contains the following software:

• Oracle Enterprise Linux (64-bit) EL 5 Update 5
• Oracle XE Database 11.2.0
• Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.6.0 (includes Service Bus)
• Oracle BPM Suite 11.1.1.6.0
• Oracle Webcenter Content (Enterprise Content Management) 11.1.1.6.0
• Oracle Webcenter Suite 11.1.1.6.0
• Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.1.6.0
• JRockit R28.2.0-79-146777-1.6.0_29s
• Sun Java SDK 1.6.0_29-b11

It is available for download on this link.

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At a recent Impact event, IBM announced a next step towards highly integrated, easily scalable business process management environment, IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.

IBM BPM 8 includes tooling and runtime for process design, execution, monitoring and optimization and is focused on continuous and simplified process improvement, adopted for process owners and business users.

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