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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

Using event sub-processes


In the previous example, we saw how we can use a boundary event to implement the cancel instance use case. We could also use an interrupting event sub-process to implement this use case. After you have completed this example, you might want to go back and implement the cancel order example using an event sub-process.

Another common use case that is implemented using event sub-processes is querying a process instance to retrieve some data from it. This is the use case we will implement in this practical exercise.

First, we will update the CancelBoundaryEvent process from the previous practical exercise so that it updates the orderStatus attribute of the Order process data object as it progresses through the process. Then, we will add an event sub-process that will allow us to query the status of an order.

  1. Open the properties for the Allocate Stock activity. Remove the draft checkbox, then go to the Implementation tab.

  2. Change Implementation Type to Script Task.

  3. Open Data...