Integration

We are evaluating the OSB to supplement our mainly BPEL based integration infrastructure (the drive to utilize OSB functionality is mainly for performance reasons).

Some of the features which I can’t easily find in OSB are:

• Scheduling – for example create an event which is based on date/time CRON expression
• Timers - for example we have an external system (web services) that requires first a command request and than we need to poll with a verification request to wait for the this system to complete the request. The polling requires x seconds delay between invoking the verification request.
• Service Proxy custom properties that we can change during runtime – for example in the above timer functionality we want operation support people to be able to change the polling duration from the current value x seconds to y seconds.

Any suggestions or known best practices for the above will be greatly appreciated.