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

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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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Defining an Interactive task

An Interactive task adds human interaction in the BPMN process. This recipe will delve into defining an Interactive task.

Getting ready

User tasks are tasks that need user interactions. Check the model that you have created. Rectangle green boxes represent the User tasks. They are also called Interactive tasks.

How to do it...

To implement a User task, you need to define a service component called Human Task, associate it with the activity, and then map data into and out of the activity. As we mentioned earlier, you must have already defined the Business and Data objects. As a developer, you will perform the following activities for implementing a User/Interactive task:

Defining a Human Task
Binding it to an activity
Mapping data input and output to the activity

There are two approaches to working with Human Tasks in Oracle BPM:

Creating the Human Task using the SOA Human Task editor
Creating the Human Task using the simplified interface that Oracle BPM provides

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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By : Vivek Acharya

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By: Vivek Acharya

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