AIA Foundation pack

AIA pack is great architectural framework.
But if you are looking for reliability then you probably have to look somewhere else as AIA is not the answer. Its a bloated architecture with so called goodies and if you have huge spare hardware and databases available then try putting AIA in production.

I believe its good to learn few things from AIA such as Error Recovery, Testing etc but keep away from AIA when implementing custom oracle solutions.

Its good if you have packaged software apps from Oracle such as Siebel CRM, Peoplesoft HR and Oracle ERP etc then you would save tons of money when implementing AIA as most of the integration you will need is already there for you in AIA.

Another point to mention is its compatibilty with Oracle service bus and Weblogic on 10g and 11g.

So Look at these point mentioned above before jumping on the AIA bus.