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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

Configuring BPEL timeouts


Receiving connection timeout-related errors is a common scenario for processing large payload or a large number of message files.

Some of the scenarios that require value changes in the Timeout parameter are listed as follows:

  • One needs more than 30 seconds for running the composite application with a large payload

  • Application logfiles or EM console has timeout errors

There are multiple solutions available to resolve timeout-related errors. The following timeout controls are available in BPEL Process Manager:

  • JTA Transaction Timeout aka Global Transaction Timeout

  • BPEL EJB's Transaction Timeout

  • syncMaxWaitTime

  • Transaction setting in composite.xml

Global Transaction Timeout parameter setting is at the WebLogic container level. Please note that the BPEL Process Manager programs run within the WebLogic platform. The Global Transaction Timeout parameter should be higher than any BPEL program's timeout settings.

It is required to set the timeout values as follows:

Global Transaction...