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BPEL and Java Cookbook

By : Jurij Laznik
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BPEL and Java Cookbook

By: Jurij Laznik

Overview of this book

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has become the de-facto standard for orchestrating web services. BPEL and web services are both clamped into Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). Development of efficient SOA composites too often requires usage of other technologies or languages, like Java. This Cookbook explains through the use of examples how to efficiently integrate BPEL with custom Java functionality.If you need to use BPEL programming to develop web services in SOA development, this book is for you.BPEL and Java Cookbook will show you how to efficiently integrate custom Java functionality into BPEL processes. Based on practical examples, this book shows you the solutions to a number of issues developers come across when designing SOA composite applications. The integration between the two technologies is shown two-fold; the book focuses on the ways that Java utilizes the BPEL and vice-versa.With this book, you will take a journey through a number of recipes that solve particular problems with developing SOA composite applications. Each chapter works on a different set of recipes in a specific area. The recipes cover the whole lifecycle of developing SOA composites: from specification, through design, testing and deployment. BPEL and Java Cookbook starts off with recipes that cover initiation of BPEL from Java and vice-versa. It then moves on to logging and tracing facilities, validation and transformation of BPEL servers, embedding of third-party Java libraries into BPEL. It also covers manipulation with variables in BPEL different techniques of Java code wrapping for web service usage and utilization of XML fa?ßades. After reading BPEL and Java Cookbook you will be able to circumvent many of the issues that developers experience during SOA composite application development.  
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
BPEL and Java Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


In the SOA architecture, BPEL plays the role of the orchestration technology. Its main task is to efficiently coordinate the interaction between web services in the business processes. With the vendor extensions, it is also possible to orchestrate EJB, Java, Spring, REST, and the other compositions.

The design of the BPEL processes requires the orchestration of many web services, each with its own interface and a way of interaction with the outer environment. There will be rare cases when web services along with a business process are in our domain. Web services, in this case, are distinct entities, and so we need to adapt our business process to the interface of the calling web service. In such a scenario, we often encounter the incompatibilities of the web service interfaces. Consequently, the job of BPEL is also the translation of some web service outcome to become the request of another web service. We have already seen that some basic transformations can be done with the...