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WS-BPEL 2.0 Beginner's Guide

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WS-BPEL 2.0 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WS-BPEL 2.0 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – appending multiple values to a variable


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Drag-and-drop an <assign> activity after the <invoke> activity named invoke_search_web_search, double-click on it, and go to the Copy Rules tab. Create a new copy rule and then choose $invoke_search_web_service_search_OutputVariable.output as the From expression and $outputVariable.payload as the To expression. Then right-click on that copy rule and go to Change rule type and select Append. Then click on Apply and then on OK, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. The BPEL is ready for testing and deployment:

What just happened?

In the preceding section, we collated all the responses from repetitive web service invocations into a single variable called outputVariable.

Understanding the <forEach> loop

Frequently in real life, we need to perform some tasks repeatedly. This typical behavior is common for computer programs, as well. Almost all the programming languages define language constructs...