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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.

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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Inter-process Communication
Inter-process Communication
Conversations
Correlation
Throw and catch events
Send and receive tasks
When to use throw/catch events and send/receive tasks
Messages, signals, and errors
Invoking sub-processes
Summary
2
Inter-process Communication in Practice
Inter-process Communication in Practice
Communicating between processes using messages and correlation
Communication between processes inside a loop
Communicating between processes using signals
Using reusable sub-processes
Summary
3
Working with Arrays
Working with Arrays
Data Associations
Creating an empty array
Creating an array with some empty elements
Creating an initialized array
Getting elements from arrays
Setting elements in arrays
Appending elements to arrays
Joining two arrays
Removing elements from arrays
Iterating over arrays with a multi-instance embedded sub-process
Practice: Iterating over an array using an embedded sub-process
Summary
4
Handling Exceptions
Handling Exceptions
Mechanisms for catching exceptions in BPMN
Exception propagation with sub-processes and peer processes
How BPM exceptions affect the SCA composite
Summary
5
Handling Exceptions in Practice
Handling Exceptions in Practice
Using boundary events to implement timeouts
Using boundary events to implement the cancel message use case
Using event sub-processes
Propagating exceptions using peer processes
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Bhagat Nainani is currently Vice President of Product Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware and is responsible for product development and strategy for Business Process Management, Event Processing, and User Productivity Kit products. Over the past 18 years, he has held various technical leadership roles in database transaction processing, messaging, and middleware product groups at Oracle. He has extensive experience with SOA, process management, distributed systems, and EAI technologies. He has also contributed to many industry standards and holds patents in distributed systems.

Bhagat holds a BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi (India), a MS in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

Prasen Palvankar has over 25 years of experience in information technology and is currently working as a Director of Product Management at Oracle. He is responsible for outbound SOA Suite and BPM Suite product-related activities such as providing strategic support and architectural and design consultation to Oracle's SOA Suite and BPM Suite current and prospective customers. His responsibilities also include field and partner enablement, and creating and rolling out advanced deep-dive training workshops. Prasen joined Oracle in 1998 and worked as a Technical Director in the Advanced Technology Solutions group in Oracle Consulting delivering large-scale integration projects before taking on his current role as Product Management Director in 2005. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Prasen has co-authored booksGetting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1— A Hands-On Tutorial Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1— A Hands-On Tutorial

Robert Patrick is a VP in Oracle's Fusion Middleware Development organization, responsible for a team of Solution Architects (known as the A-team) covering core middleware and integration technologies-related engagements. Robert has 19 years experience in the design and development of distributed systems, and he specializes in designing and troubleshooting large, high performance, mission-critical systems built with various middleware technologies. Prior to joining Oracle, Robert spent years working for BEA Systems (most recently as their Deputy CTO) where he spent most of his time advising Fortune 1000 companies how to best apply middleware technology to solve their business problems. He has written papers, magazine articles, and was one of the co-authors of Professional Oracle WebLogic Server (Wrox, 2009) and Mastering BEAWebLogic Server (Wiley, 2003) as well as sp at various industry conferences.

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