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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By : Vivek Acharya
Book Image

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By: Vivek Acharya

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Process Management Suite is a complete set of tools for creating, executing, and optimizing business processes.Oracle BPM Suite 11g offers the flexibility that business demands, hand-in-hand with the power IT requires. The result is an agile platform that brings together your existing applications, enabling you to react quickly to new business requirements.With this cookbook we will develop rich, interactive business processes using the Oracle Business Process Management suite.With Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook, a common process model based on BPMN is presented to the specific role assigned to readers in each chapter. Explore Oracle BPM 11g with Modelling, Implementation, Simulation, Deployment, Exception Management, BPM and SOA in Concert, Advanced Rules and Human tasks, End User Interaction and Run-time.Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook will help readers learn BPM 11g through a Real World Sample Process.This book is divided into four sections: the first section, Modeling, lays the foundation and demonstrates how to implement the Modeling of Business processes for a Use Case of a Fictitious Organization which needs BPM to be implemented at their site (with data objects and information handling). In the second section, Implementation, we learn about Process Implementation, Human Interaction, Business Rules, and much more. In the third section, Measuring, we learn about Post Process Development, Performance Analysis and Simulation Models. In the last section, Deployment, Migration and Run-Time, we learn deployment and migration, and Post Deployment Run-Time.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Oracle BPM—Application Development Lifecycle

Introduction


Business rules focus on decision making and policies. Business rules can be included in cases where you need dynamic processing, Human Task routing, data validations, and so on. A Decision component, also called a Business rule service component, supports the use of Oracle Business rules in an SOA composite application.

Business rules are statements that describe business policies or key business decisions. For example, computations such as discounts or premiums, or say a business rule for a car rental company might specify that if the driver's age is less than twenty-one, the application must be denied. Business rules can perform calculations, such as calculating a credit score, and they can result in changes to the flow by setting values that determine how the process branches.

Rules follow either an IF/THEN structure or can be expressed in a spreadsheet-like format called Decision Tables. You write rules and Decision Tables in terms of fact types and properties. Fact types...