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Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics

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Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics

Overview of this book

Oracle BPM Suite is a popular and highly capable business process management system with extensive integration capabilities. BPMN, one of the most widely used process modeling notations, includes advanced capabilities for inter-process communication, working of arrays of data, and handling exceptions. However, these very same areas are often poorly understood. This book gives you the knowledge to create professional process models using these advanced features of BPMN."Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" is the only book available that provides coverage of advanced BPMN topics for Oracle BPM Suite, helping to fill in the gaps left by the product documentation, and giving you the information that you need to know to use BPMN to its full potential.This book covers the important theory behind inter-process communication, working with arrays and handling exceptions in BPMN, along with detailed, step-by-step practical exercises that demonstrate and consolidate this theoretical knowledge.Throughout the book we'll cover topics including different types of sub-processes, initializing and manipulating arrays, using the multi-instance embedded sub-process, fault propagation and more.With "Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" in hand, you'll gain detailed and practical experience in using the advanced features of BPMN to create professional BPMN processes with Oracle BPM.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

When to use throw/catch events and send/receive tasks


The following table is a quick guide to which kind of inter-process communication mechanism you should use in various circumstances:

 

Throw/catch message events

Throw/catch signal events

Send/receive tasks

Ability to attach a boundary event to catch errors

No

No

Yes

Asynchronous

Either

Yes

Yes

Invoked process becomes a ...

Child

Child

Peer

The process you want to invoke starts with a ...

Catch message event or receive task that creates an instance

Catch signal event

Receive task

You know who the receiver is at design time

Yes

No

Yes

You want to send the 'message' to ... receivers

One

Any number

One

Failure of called process propagates to calling process*

No

No

Yes

Note

Propagation of failures will be covered in Chapter 4, Handling Exceptions.