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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

Invoking a service from a BPEL process


BPEL uses Partner Link for invoking synchronous and asynchronous services. BPEL processes may alternatively use the Invoke activity that opens a port in the BPEL service component to send and receive data.

Partner Link

Partner Link provides references to external services. Partner Link is the door for outside services. While editing a BPEL process, one can create a Partner Link to invoke external services. As shown in the following screenshot, drag-and-drop the Partner Link to the JDeveloper console and select the SOA Resource Browser for selecting the WSDL for interacting with another web service using the standard WSDL interface:

As shown in the following screenshot, select the WSDL file from your filesystem for interacting with another web service. Other options are to locate the WSDL file from Resource Palette and Application or retrieve WSDL using the WSDL endpoint URL. It is recommended to test and confirm the WSDL URL using an external web browser...