Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By : Vivek Acharya

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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By: Vivek Acharya

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Overview of this book

Oracle Business Process Management Suite is a complete set of tools for creating, executing, and optimizing business processes.Oracle BPM Suite 11g offers the flexibility that business demands, hand-in-hand with the power IT requires. The result is an agile platform that brings together your existing applications, enabling you to react quickly to new business requirements.With this cookbook we will develop rich, interactive business processes using the Oracle Business Process Management suite.With Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook, a common process model based on BPMN is presented to the specific role assigned to readers in each chapter. Explore Oracle BPM 11g with Modelling, Implementation, Simulation, Deployment, Exception Management, BPM and SOA in Concert, Advanced Rules and Human tasks, End User Interaction and Run-time.Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook will help readers learn BPM 11g through a Real World Sample Process.This book is divided into four sections: the first section, Modeling, lays the foundation and demonstrates how to implement the Modeling of Business processes for a Use Case of a Fictitious Organization which needs BPM to be implemented at their site (with data objects and information handling). In the second section, Implementation, we learn about Process Implementation, Human Interaction, Business Rules, and much more. In the third section, Measuring, we learn about Post Process Development, Performance Analysis and Simulation Models. In the last section, Deployment, Migration and Run-Time, we learn deployment and migration, and Post Deployment Run-Time.

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Process Modeling

Introduction

Modeling business processes with BPM

Simulating the BPM Application development lifecycle

Modeling a fictitious organization

Creating Business Process Flow

Creating and defining projects

Defining Role and Organization Units

Organizing processes using swimlanes

Adding user interaction to Process Flow

Controlling Process Flow—Defining exclusive gateways

Controlling Process Flow—Implementing Exclusive Gateways

Controlling Process Flow—Parallel gateways

Controlling Process Flow—Sequence Flows

Communicating with external processes and services

Changing the value of Data objects in your process

Creating Business objects in a Business Catalog

Adding documentation to the Flow Element

Creating MDS for BPM

Publishing a BPM Project in BPM Studio to MDS

Process Implementation

Introduction

Defining an Interactive task

Generating a Task Form for an Interactive task

Creating a common Interactive task

Generating a common Task Form

Assigning the same Human Task to different Interactive tasks

Creating Data associations

Implementing service tasks

Configuring a Data association for conditional flow

Process Deployment and Testing

Introduction

Connecting to the Application Server running SOA Suite

Building and Compiling a BPM Project

Deploying the Project

Testing Process: Triggering the process

Debugging the process

Business Rules in the BPM Process

Introduction

Extending Human Tasks

Adding a Business object

Creating a dictionary

Defining Globals and Bucketsets

Defining the Rule: Decision Table

Adding gateways and Human Tasks

Defining the Rule: IF/THEN

Testing the rules

Human Workflow in BPM Process

Introduction

Creating Human Task Service Components

Creating task definition and the task payload

Defining assignments—stage and single participant

Defining assignments—sequential stage and serial participant

Defining assignments—management chain participant

Defining Assignments—parallel participant type

Testing the process

Process Simulation

Introduction

Defining simulation models

Defining simulation definition

Running a simulation

Analyzing simulation results

Reengineering the BPM Process to improve performance

Developing UI using Oracle ADF

Introduction

Creating ADF Task Forms

Creating a task display form

Creating a task display form—using individual Drop handlers

Implementing routers

Creating Task Form sequence flow

Creating a Task form with ADF Business Components

Creating a task display form—using a wizard

Exception Management

Introduction

Handling Business Exception in a subprocess

Handling a system exception—Fault Management Framework

Handling the timeout exception—Timer event

Faulting the process

BPM and SOA in Concert

Introduction

Invoking asynchronous service using message events

Invoking synchronous service using service task

Calling a BPM process

Initiating BPM from JMS

Exposing BPMN process as a service

End User Interaction

Introduction

Interacting through BPM Workspace

Working on the Process Instance

Interacting through Process Spaces

Manage, Monitor and Administer BPM Process

Introduction

Creating a custom dashboard in BPM workspace

Configuring BAM Architect to create custom dashboards

SOA Admin—Configuring SOA infrastructure properties

SOA Admin—Monitoring SOA infrastructure

SOA Admin—Administering BPMN application deployment

SOA Admin—Fault recovery for BPMN processes

SOA Admin—Configure notification settings

BPM Admin—Integrating Oracle BPM with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

BPM Admin—Managing roles, organization units, and groups

BPM Admin—Setting rules

BPM Admin—Using flex fields/mapped attributes

BPM Admin—Monitoring BPM processes

Oracle BPM—Application Development Lifecycle

Approval Management

Introduction

Modifying Approval Task

Implementing dynamic approval mechanisms

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Creating and defining projects

You will need a container for the resources that are used to create and support business applications created using Oracle BPM. Oracle BPM projects are based on SOA projects, but they include the additional functionality of the Oracle BPM Suite, including BPMN processes.

How to do it...

You will use JDeveloper as the IDE to work with BPM Studio. The version of JDeveloper used is 11.1.1.5.0. This is done as follows:

1. Start the JDeveloper Studio (11.1.1.5.0). Choose the default role, to enable all the technologies. You can also choose the BPM Process Analyst role.
2. Click on File | New | All Items, and choose BPM Application:
3. Give a name to the application, say FusionNX_Application.
4. We will create an application as we are starting the demo. In subsequent chapters and demos, we will use the same chapter.
5. Click on the Application menu, to the right of the application name in JDeveloper and click New Project....
6. Choose BPM Tier in the project gallery, and select BPM Project:
7. Enter the Project details such as Project Name (SalesQuoteToContractDemo) and specify the Directory where it will get saved.
8. Make sure that both BPM and SOA are selected.
9. A new Project will get created and will appear in the Project navigator, with a structure of resources, as shown:

How it works...

You must be aware that to handle resources, which together create an application, you need a container. And Projects is the container for BPM resources to create a BPM application.

There's more...

In addition to the two resources of BPM project, Processes and Organization, there are other major resources of an Oracle BPM project:

Processes: BPM and/or BPEL processes
Activity Guide: Includes project milestones defined for each BPMN process
Organization: Includes the organization elements, such as Roles, Organization Units, Calendars, and Holiday rules
Business Catalog: Includes reusable components including services, adapters, and human tasks
Simulations: Includes the simulation models defined for a project and individual BPMN processes
Resources: Contain the XML transformations defined for your project

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By : Vivek Acharya

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By: Vivek Acharya

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