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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have put into practice the theory we learned in the previous chapter about handling exceptions. We have explored the various mechanisms available for handling exceptions, including boundary events and event sub-processes. We have also explored the propagation of faults between processes.

Additionally, we have used some of the techniques we learned in earlier chapters, such as defining advanced conversations and correlation in order to create our practical examples.

We implemented two common patterns:

  • The "cancel message" use case that lets us send a message to a running process instance to cancel it

  • The "query" use case that lets us retrieve the value of process data objects from a running process instance

You are now armed with the theory and practical knowledge that you need to design quality BPMN processes that are able to communicate with each other safely, handle exceptions, and deal with data in arrays. Thank you for spending your time to learn with us!