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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By : Vivek Acharya
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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By: Vivek Acharya

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.

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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook
Vivek Acharya
Apr, 2012 | 512 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook
Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Process Modeling
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
2
Process Implementation
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
3
Process Deployment and Testing
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
4
Business Rules in the BPM 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
5
Human Workflow in BPM Process
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
6
Process Simulation
Process Simulation
Introduction
Defining simulation models
Defining simulation definition
Running a simulation
Analyzing simulation results
Reengineering the BPM Process to improve performance
7
Developing UI using Oracle ADF
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
8
Exception Management
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
9
BPM and SOA in Concert
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
10
End User Interaction
End User Interaction
Introduction
Interacting through BPM Workspace
Working on the Process Instance
Interacting through Process Spaces
11
Manage, Monitor and Administer BPM Process
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
Oracle BPM—Application Development Lifecycle
Approval Management
Approval Management
Introduction
Modifying Approval Task
Implementing dynamic approval mechanisms

Debugging the process

While you are testing the process and things are not working as expected, for example, a process instance takes the wrong branch or the approval flow is not what you were expecting, you can debug the process by setting the Audit Level to Development. Setting the Audit Level is done in the Enterprise Manager.

First you will set the Audit level to Development mode and then you will initiate a new process instance in the Business Process Workspace to witness the effects of this change in debugging.

How to do it...

This section will cover how to debug a process instance. It is done as follows:

  1. 1. Go to the Enterprise Manager console | SOA-Infra | SOA Administration and click Common Properties. This will set the Audit level to Development mode.

  2. 2. Also tick the Capture Composite Instance State check box.

  3. 3. In the EM Console, click on the old instance that you have created while following the steps in the section Testing Process : Triggering the Process, in this chapter.

  4. 4. The...

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