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Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 - A Hands-on Tutorial

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Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 - A Hands-on Tutorial

Overview of this book

BPEL, Business Process Execution Language is the definitive standard in writing and defining actions within business processes. Oracle BPEL Process Manager R1 is Oracle's latest offering, providing you with a complete end-to-end platform for the creation, implementation, and management of your BPEL business processes that are so important to your service-oriented architecture."Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial" is your guide to BPEL design and development, SOA Suite platform troubleshooting, and engineering in a detailed step-by-step guide working real-world examples and case studies. Using industry-leading practices you will start by creating your first BPEL process and move onto configuring your processes, then invoking, orchestrating, and testing them. You will then learn how to use architect and design services using BPEL, performance tuning, integration, and security, as well as high availability, troubleshooting, and modeling for the future. "Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial" is your complete hands-on guide to Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11g.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Configuring BPEL Processes

Web applications usually have business logic, workflow, integration with existing enterprise applications such as SAP/JDE/EBS/SDFC, and packages such as Java/ASP.NET. An example of workflow that can be part of a web application is order processing. A typical order processing workflow contains references to services, or in other words, consumes services such as create order, process payment, send order to warehouse, check inventory, process, and send order to customers. The order processing service illustrates a typical Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process scenario.

BPEL is a replacement to simplify your workflow and also, to some extent, a replacement to the custom code that describes and implements the business workflow. Typical web applications require more than one service to fulfill the business requirements. The key challenges are: how to create the services and how to orchestrate the services. We can use BPEL for describing, integrating...