How to use Configuration files to customize OSB deployments
When deploying Oracle Service Bus projects to a new environment some values such as Web Services endpoints, DB JNDI Names, AQ JNDI Names, LDAP JNDI Names etc. In order to achieve automated changes to your resources, Oracle suggests using Configuration Files which apply customization rules to them. In OSB 11g, Configuration Files where called "Customization Files", apart from renaming the file in OSB 12c for homogenization purposes with SOA Configuration Plans, there are no other changes and everything in terms of functionality remains the same. In order to create a Configuration File first you should deploy your project with the initial implentation, which typically contains some proxy, pipelines and business services. Then, you log in to Service Bus console and: navigate to the Admin tab select the Create Configuration File option (take note that there is an option Execute Configuration File that we will use later) select the project for which you need ...