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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

Creating property aliases


Property alias is for telling the BPEL process how to extract the value of the property from the specified message. The property aliases assist us in mapping a property to a field in a specific message part and that can be used in XPath expressions. Multiple property aliases may be required for correlation, such as the one for instantiation and another one for validation.

To create a property alias in JDeveloper, double-click on the Property Aliases icon, as shown in the following screenshot. Select the correlation set to associate with a property alias. If the message part is an element or a complex type, you can define an XPath query to identify the location of the property within the element or type. In the Query field, add appropriate XPath expressions. An XPath expression is for navigating within an XML document and helps to directly define a part of the XML document.

As a final verification, you may review the WSDL file content to ensure that the properties...