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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

Designing orchestration


Orchestration is the process of combining BPEL services. Defining the style of interaction with the client is the first step of designing a BPEL service. Always consider using the Scope activity to group a set of activities and manage the BPEL variables' scope. Define the XML schemas (XSD) for the message structure after deciding the client interaction style.

As shown in the following figure, the Partner Link on the left-hand size contains the service interface (WSDL) to communicate with client applications or other components. The client applications can use the WSDL to invoke the BPEL service.

The Partner Link contains the service interface (WSDL) for BPEL services to invoke other external services:

The Oracle JDeveloper's design page has three different swim lanes, as shown in the next screenshot. These swim lanes are as follows:

  • The left-hand side swim lane is used to define partner links for communication with clients

  • The right-hand side swim lane is used to define...