Oracle SOA Suite 12c - Export a composite from Enterprise Manager

Hello everyone, in this blog tutorial we'll see how to export an existing SOA composite from enterprise manager and then after will import the same in JDeveloper. 

The scenario is, the composite has been accidentally deleted from developer machine post-deployment on SOA Server. So let's see the steps we can use to recover/ get a composite from enterprise manager.

Step1- Login to enterprise manager as http://host:port/em and navigate to SOA folder from left navigation menu & Click on anyone soa server... say soa_server1 or soa_server2 as shown below-

Step2- Click on 'Deployed Composites' tab as shown below- 

Step3- Locate the composite (even specific version you want) and click on the same as shown below-

Step4- Go to the top section of the composite and expand the menu. The 'Export' option is visible than after as shown below-

Step5- Click on the 'Export' option and select the appropriate options for downloading the composite. And finally, click on the top right 'Export' button.

Step6- The composite is then downloaded as sca_<composite_name>_rev1.jar

Step7- Now, we have to import this composite in our jDeveloper as- 

Open JDeveloper and create a new SOA Application from the template.

a. Next, go to the File > Import menu

b. Select 'SOA Archive Into SOA Project'

c. Locate the sca_<composite_name>_rev1.jar and open it. The composite will be opened in JDeveloper with Composite.xml as shown below-

So, in this way we have seen all the steps to get our soa composite from Oracle Enterprise Manager.