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Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics

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Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics

Overview of this book

Oracle BPM Suite is a popular and highly capable business process management system with extensive integration capabilities. BPMN, one of the most widely used process modeling notations, includes advanced capabilities for inter-process communication, working of arrays of data, and handling exceptions. However, these very same areas are often poorly understood. This book gives you the knowledge to create professional process models using these advanced features of BPMN."Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" is the only book available that provides coverage of advanced BPMN topics for Oracle BPM Suite, helping to fill in the gaps left by the product documentation, and giving you the information that you need to know to use BPMN to its full potential.This book covers the important theory behind inter-process communication, working with arrays and handling exceptions in BPMN, along with detailed, step-by-step practical exercises that demonstrate and consolidate this theoretical knowledge.Throughout the book we'll cover topics including different types of sub-processes, initializing and manipulating arrays, using the multi-instance embedded sub-process, fault propagation and more.With "Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" in hand, you'll gain detailed and practical experience in using the advanced features of BPMN to create professional BPMN processes with Oracle BPM.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Communicating between processes using signals


In this practice activity, we will explore how to use signals to create publish/subscribe style communication between process instances, as illustrated in the following diagram. You may recall that when using signals, the sending process does not know which (if any) other processes will receive the signal.

  1. Create a new BPM Application in JDeveloper. Name both the application and the project as Practice3. Choose the option to create an emty composite.

    Let's start by defining an event. First, we will need a data type definition for the event. We will place this in an XSD file:

  2. Create a new XSD file as myEvent.xsd. You may need to change to the All Technologies tab in New Gallery and choose XML on the left-hand side and XML Schema on the right-hand side of the screen.

  3. Right-click on exampleElement and add sequence inside it. Then, right-click on sequence and add an element inside that.

  4. Right-click on element and set its type to xsd:string. Your XSD should...