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Migrating your BPEL 1.1 process to BPEL 2.0 – SOA Suite 11gR1PS2 to PS3
1In my current project we just started creating BPEL 1.1 processes. Then SOA Suite 11gR1PS3 came along and gave use BPEL 2.0. As we are just in the early stages of development we decided to have a look at the impact of upgrading our already build BPEL 1.1 processes to version 2.0.
As there are no BPEL 2.0 upgrade tools we had basically two options. The first was to complete rebuild all our processes. Not a very good option to redo all the work. The second options was to manually upgrade the BPEL 1.1 definitions to 2.0. Expecting this to be less work we choose the second option.
The first step was to fool Jdeveloper into thinking a BPEL 1.1 process is actually BPEL 2.0.
1.      In the BPEL source file I changed two namespaces: xmlns =â€http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/†into xmlns=â€http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/process/executable†xmlns:xxx=â€http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/process/executableâ€Â into xmlns:bpel=”http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/process/executable”
2.      In the composite.xml I added the version=â€2.0†attribute to the bpel component  <component name=â€name bpel process†More >
Embedded Java in a 11g BPEL process
0In an earlier blog my colleague Peter Ebell (link) explained how you can create an extension of collaxa.cube.engine.ext.BPELXExecLet to do your coding in a regular Java environment so you have code completion and validation. In 11g no improvements have been implemented and the Java embedded activity is still a pretty dumb text editor. So the same approach is still valid. But there are some differences between the 1o en 11 version.
The class you need to extend has been moved to a different package: com.collaxa.cube.engine.ext.bpel.v1.nodes.BPELXExecLet. You need at least to include the SOA Workflow library in your project. If you want it to run you need additional packages.
Most of the methods of the 10 version still exist. Only the method getLocator is gone. You now need to get an instance of the locator bean through a factory.
Book review of: Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial
0Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial
Authors: Demed L’Her, Heidi Buelow, Jayaram Kasi, Manas Deb, Prasen Palvankar (aka Oracle Product Management for SOA Suite)
A hands-on tutorial is what the cover of the book promises, and that is exactly what you get. A quick, very hands-on introduction into the most important components in the SOA Suite 11g. In no time at all, readers will be able to get a composite application up and running. An application that leverages many of the essential features and functions in the SOA Suite.
Some books are primarily an introduction into a certain topic, with lots of theory, background and explanations of what, why and how. Other books are mainly reference material that you use to look things up when you need them. This book is neither – it offers very little in the way of explanation and background and it would be fairly useless as reference guide. It is however a very good way to get to know the SOA Suite – both design time and run time – and get a feel for how to develop for it and run applications in it.
The book contains a large number of informative screenshots and also provides the salient code snippets. It is very More >
OOW 2009: Introducing SOA and Oracle SOA Suite 11g for Database Professionals
The Oracle Open World 2009 conference is almost underway. On Monday 12th October I will do two presentations, and I am done preparing the first one of them (the one that has actually sold one – probably scheduled in a small room).This presentation is one in which I introduce the key concepts and objectives of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) as well as the Oracle SOA Suite 11g to an audience of database professionals. Whether DBA or Database Developer, SOA is unavoidable. But what (exactly) is it? And how does it impact – positively or negatively – the work and lives of database professionals? What can a database professional do to work well with SOA and the SOA technology once that starts being implemented in her or his organization?
SOA Suite 11g – Composite instance as WebService Result Cache using BPEL Correlation
This article describes an architectural pattern, implemented in the Oracle SOA Suite 11g, that is somewhat similar to the Oracle Database 11g Function Result Cache. It introduces a SOA Composite Application in the role of Result Cache. In its most simple form, the result cache is initialized – loaded with values -, used by other SOA applications that need the cached values, refreshed/reset when required and terminated. Through this ‘result cache’ – frequently used and not-so-frequently changed values that are published by (possibly remote, expensive or slow-reacting) web services or adapter services can be made available to local consumers in a simple, cheap and fast manner. We achieve this using the fast native SCA binding used for invoking in-container services exposed by fellow composite applications (that’s for speed) and the BPEL correlation mechanism (that’s for finding the result cache in the first place).
What the actual value of this pattern and implementation are is not yet entirely clear to me. Your feedback is appreciated. What I do know is that this article is also a good demonstration of using correlation and of applying some of the XML manipulation techniques More >
Chatting from SOA Suite 11g – how BPEL processes can use the XMPP protocol to notify the world
Various scenarios may require sending email messages or other types of notifications to users as part of the process flow. For example, certain types of exceptions that cannot be handled automatically may require manual intervention. For example, a BPEL process can use the notification service to alert users by voice, IM, SMS, or email.
In a previous article (http://technology.amis.nl/blog/6019/configure-soa-suite-11g-for-sending-email-notifications-with-google-mail) I described recently how the fairly new SOA Suite 11g can use GMail or other public Email servers to send notifications, for example from BPEL processes or the Human Workflow Service. The SOA Suite 11g works with the User Messaging Service (UMS) to perform that feat and the essence of said article is to configure the email driver in UMS to use GMail – or any other email server for that matter.
This article looks at one of the other communication channels available in UMS, and also available to BPEL processes: Instant Messaging or Chat. After configuring the UMS XMPP driver in the Enterprise Manager console, the Chat channel is available to any BPEL process. We will discuss how to configure – and with which More >
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