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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

By : Vivek Acharya
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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook

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By: Vivek Acharya
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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.
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Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgement
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Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Process Modeling
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Process Modeling
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Introduction
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Modeling business processes with BPM
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Simulating the BPM Application development lifecycle
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Modeling a fictitious organization
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Creating Business Process Flow
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Creating and defining projects
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Defining Role and Organization Units
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Organizing processes using swimlanes
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Adding user interaction to Process Flow
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Controlling Process Flow—Defining exclusive gateways
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Controlling Process Flow—Implementing Exclusive Gateways
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Controlling Process Flow—Parallel gateways
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Controlling Process Flow—Sequence Flows
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Communicating with external processes and services
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Changing the value of Data objects in your process
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Creating Business objects in a Business Catalog
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Adding documentation to the Flow Element
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Creating MDS for BPM
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Publishing a BPM Project in BPM Studio to MDS
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Process Implementation
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Process Implementation
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Introduction
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Defining an Interactive task
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Generating a Task Form for an Interactive task
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Creating a common Interactive task
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Generating a common Task Form
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Assigning the same Human Task to different Interactive tasks
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Creating Data associations
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Implementing service tasks
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Configuring a Data association for conditional flow
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Process Deployment and Testing
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Process Deployment and Testing
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Introduction
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Connecting to the Application Server running SOA Suite
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Building and Compiling a BPM Project
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Deploying the Project
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Testing Process: Triggering the process
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Debugging the process
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Business Rules in the BPM Process
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Business Rules in the BPM Process
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Introduction
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Extending Human Tasks
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Adding a Business object
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Creating a dictionary
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Defining Globals and Bucketsets
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Defining the Rule: Decision Table
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Adding gateways and Human Tasks
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Defining the Rule: IF/THEN
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Testing the rules
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Human Workflow in BPM Process
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Human Workflow in BPM Process
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Introduction
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Creating Human Task Service Components
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Creating task definition and the task payload
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Defining assignments—stage and single participant
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Defining assignments—sequential stage and serial participant
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Defining assignments—management chain participant
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Defining Assignments—parallel participant type
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Testing the process
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Process Simulation
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Process Simulation
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Introduction
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Defining simulation models
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Defining simulation definition
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Running a simulation
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Analyzing simulation results
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Reengineering the BPM Process to improve performance
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Developing UI using Oracle ADF
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Developing UI using Oracle ADF
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Introduction
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Creating ADF Task Forms
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Creating a task display form
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Creating a task display form—using individual Drop handlers
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Implementing routers
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Creating Task Form sequence flow
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Creating a Task form with ADF Business Components
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Creating a task display form—using a wizard
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Exception Management
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Exception Management
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Introduction
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Handling Business Exception in a subprocess
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Handling a system exception—Fault Management Framework
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Handling the timeout exception—Timer event
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Faulting the process
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BPM and SOA in Concert
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BPM and SOA in Concert
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Introduction
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Invoking asynchronous service using message events
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Invoking synchronous service using service task
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Calling a BPM process
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Initiating BPM from JMS
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Exposing BPMN process as a service
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End User Interaction
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End User Interaction
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Introduction
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Interacting through BPM Workspace
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Working on the Process Instance
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Interacting through Process Spaces
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Manage, Monitor and Administer BPM Process
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Manage, Monitor and Administer BPM Process
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Introduction
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Creating a custom dashboard in BPM workspace
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Configuring BAM Architect to create custom dashboards
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SOA Admin—Configuring SOA infrastructure properties
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SOA Admin—Monitoring SOA infrastructure
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SOA Admin—Administering BPMN application deployment
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SOA Admin—Fault recovery for BPMN processes
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SOA Admin—Configure notification settings
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BPM Admin—Integrating Oracle BPM with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
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BPM Admin—Managing roles, organization units, and groups
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BPM Admin—Setting rules
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BPM Admin—Using flex fields/mapped attributes
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BPM Admin—Monitoring BPM processes
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Oracle BPM—Application Development Lifecycle
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Oracle BPM—Application Development Lifecycle
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Approval Management
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Approval Management
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Introduction
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Modifying Approval Task
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Implementing dynamic approval mechanisms

Simulating the BPM Application development lifecycle

By simulating BPM Application development lifecycle, you will define the strategy, paradigm, and Use Cases. As a Process Analyst, you will use BPM Studio to create BPM Process Models. Based on these models, Process Developers will implement the BPM applications and deploy it to BPM runtime.

Using BPM Studio, a Process Analyst can do the following:

  • Model business processes
  • Define business rules and performance indicators
  • Simulate processes
  • Determine the optimal resource requirements to achieve specified SLAs

How to do it...

The steps to define strategy, paradigm, and Use Case are:

  1. Chose between BPA and BPM Suite.

    If your answer is 'YES' to following requirements, then you need BPM as a tool:

    • If you are concentrating only on a process and not enterprise-wide modeling
    • If you have human-centric Use Cases that require flexibility and collaboration
    • If you have to focus on the project at hand and not on your total enterprise
    • If you have the tactical/implementation of the processes, BPM Suite works best

    If your answer is 'YES' to following requirements, then you need BPA as a tool:

    • If you have a strategic/pre-implementation work, such as as-is, to-be, gaps, requirements definition, and so on, BPA works best
    • If you need to focus on higher-level, enterprise-wide modeling that might be done using rigorous methodologies, use Oracle BPA
    • If you need the ability to model other things that relate to processes, such as systems, data, people, organizations, and services that represent the Enterprise, use BPA
    • If you need models that relate not only to processes but to other parts of the enterprise, as well, use BPA
  2. Define modeling approach:

    If it is bottom-up, then:

    • Create projects in BPM Studio
    • Populate projects with reusable artifacts, such as data services, and so on
    • Publish to MDS—Projects or Templates can be published to MDS
    • From Process Composer, check out published BPM projects
    • Customize and use these projects to create new processes

    Else if it is top-down ,then:

    • Create high-level abstract Process Flows (blueprints) from scratch using BPM Composer
    • Publish them to MDS
    • Check into BPM Studio and refine them
    • Deploy
  3. Define the Use Case:
    • Determine the business requirements
    • Model the required business processes using Oracle BPM Studio
    • Create simulation models for "as-is" and "to-be" processes or models. Implement the processes by integrating each element of the process with backend systems and reusable services
    • Compile the Oracle BPM project as a composite application
    • Deploy the application to the runtime environment
    • Interact with the deployed processes as part of a running business application
    • Maintain and monitor the running process-based applications

How it works...

You can start modeling in either BPA Suite or BPM Suite. However, as a Process Analyst, you will choose BPM Suite to model, because you have answered 'YES' to all questions asked when choosing between BPA and BPM, in favor of BPM. Along with it, BPM Suite offers predictability, traceability, adaptability, is measurable, and bridges the gap between Business and IT. As a Process Analyst, you have some knowledge of the business process and can collaborate with business users to enrich the modeling outcomes.

As a Process Analyst, in this chapter, you will probably follow the bottom-up modeling paradigm as your modeling strategy. Metadata Store (MDS) enables modeling paradigms. The MDS repository is used for creating a shared, collaborative work environment across multiple BPM Studios and process composers.

There's more...

In addition to the modeling methods described in the preceding text, there are different ways by which a Process Analyst can model business processes, such as the following:

  • Implementing a modeling Use Case with Business Process Composer, by creating Process blueprints. These blueprints will be used by developers to create project templates and store them into Oracle MDS. After this, Process Analyst will use these project templates again to create projects, and finally, to deploy them.
  • You can even use Oracle BPA suite to model the processes by designing the business architectures, analyzing the processes that will be candidates for BPM projects, and then creating process models and importing them into Studio to finally make them available at runtime.
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