Introduction and Concepts
1. Introduction to Oracle BPEL Process Manager

• What Is BPEL?
• What Is Oracle BPEL Process Manager?
• What Is the BPEL Designer?
• JDeveloper BPEL Designer
• Eclipse BPEL Designer
• How to Use This Guide
• Tutorials and Demonstrations
• Summary

• Overview of Oracle BPEL Process Manager Components
• Starting Oracle BPEL Process Manager Components
• Overview of BPEL Designer Environments
• Overview of JDeveloper BPEL Designer
• Applications Navigator
• Diagram View Window
• Source Window
• Component Palette
• Property Inspector
• Structure Window
• Log Window
• Overview of Eclipse BPEL Designer
• Navigator
• Process Map and Overview Windows.
• BPEL Source Window.
• BPEL Inspector.
• Log Window
• BPEL Palette.
• Overview of Activities.
• Overview of Partner Links
• Overview of Oracle BPEL Server.
• Overview of Oracle BPEL Console.
• Overview of Oracle BPEL Process Manager Services.
• Overview of Oracle BPEL Process Manager Technology Adapters
• Summary

• Overview of Building a Simple BPEL Process.
• Creating a New BPEL Project Using Eclipse BPEL Designer.
• Browsing a New Project
• Viewing the WSDL Interface of a BPEL Process.
• Switching Between the Overview, Process Map, and Source Code
• Viewing an Overview of a BPEL Process
• Viewing a Detailed Process Map
• Viewing BPEL Source Code.
• Reviewing the BPEL Source Code.
• Understanding the Sequence Activity.
• Understanding the Assign Activity.
• Adding an Assign Activity to the Process Map.
• Step 1: Viewing the Process Map.
• Step 2: Inserting an Assign Activity
• Step 3: Adding a Copy Rule.
• Step 4: Defining the From Part (Source) of the Copy Rule..
• Step 5: Defining the To Part (Destination) of the Copy Rule
• Compiling and Deploying the BPEL Process.
• Testing the BPEL Process
• Summary

• How XML Data Works in BPEL.
• About Data Manipulation and XPath Standards.
• Initializing a Variable with Expression Constants or Literal XML
• Copying Between Variables.
• Creating Transformation activity in a BPEL Process
• Creating Transformation Mapping by using the XSLT Map per
• Saving a XSLT Transformation
• Applying a Transformation to XML data
• Creating a Domain Value Map in BPEL and in ESB
• Summary

• Demo
• Solving of Issues
• Exercise

• Use Case.
• Synchronous Service Concepts.
• Examples.
• The Partner Link.
• Port Types
• PartnerLinkTypes for Synchronous Services
• UDDI and WSIL Directories.
• The Invoke Activity
• Calling a Synchronous Service.
• Summary

• Introduction.
• Use Case.
• Understanding Asynchronous Callback Concepts.
• PartnerLinkTypes for Asynchronous Services
• Calling the Service from BPEL
• Invoke and Receive Activities.
• Correlations.
• WS-Addressing
• TCP Tunneling
• Correlation Sets
• The Reply Activity. Dehydration
• Adding a Partner Link for an Asynchronous Service.
• Adding an Invoke Activity
• Adding a Receive Activity.
• Performing Additional Activities.
• Questions and Answers.
• Summary

• Defining Adapter Services
• Describing the Adapter Framework
• Types of Adapters
• Creating a Partner Link for an Adapter in BPEL
• Invoking the service of a BPEL adapter
• Virtualising Services through ESB Adapters
• Deciding to use BPEL or ESB Adapters
• Designing Routing Patterns

• Introduction.
• Use Case.
• Understanding Parallel Flow Concepts.
• Defining a Parallel Flow.
• The flown Activity
• BPEL Code Example of the Flown Activity.
• Summary

• Introduction.
• Use Case.
• Understanding Conditional Branching Concepts
• Conditional Branching
• Adding a Switch Activity
• The While Activity.
• Summary

• Introduction.
• Use Case.
• Defining a Fault Handler
• Taxonomy of BPEL Faults.
• Using the Scope Activity -
• Throwing Internal Faults
• Returning External Faults.
• Returning a Fault in a Synchronous Interaction.
• Returning a Fault in an Asynchronous Interaction.
• Fault Handler within a Scope. -
• The Empty Activity at runtime. -
• Compensation -
• The Terminate Activity -10
• Catching Run-Time Faults Example.
• Eclipse BPEL Designer Example.
• Summary

• Introduction.
• Use Case.
• Using Java Code with WSIF Binding
• Using Java Code Wrapped as a SOAP Service
• Embedding Java Code in BPEL.
• The bpelx: exec Tag.
• XML Facade
• Bpelx: exec Built-in Methods.
• JDeveloper BPEL Designer Example.
• Summary

• Creating an ESB Project in JDeveloper and Creating a ESB System
• Creating an ESB Service and Routing Rules in ESB
• Adding Target Service to Routing Rules
• Adding a SOAP Service to an ESB Project
• ESBBPEL Native Integration
• Registering an ESB Project
• Benefits of ESB

• Demo
• Solving of Issues
• Exercise

• Compiling and Deploying a BPEL Process.
• Compiling and Deploying on JDeveloper BPEL Designer.
• Compiling Without Deploying on JDeveloper BPEL Designer.
• Compiling and Deploying on Eclipse BPEL Designer.
• BPEL Suitcase JAR File.
• Creating and Managing a BPEL Domain
• Changing the Default Domain Password
• Changing Oracle BPEL Admin Console Password.
• Creating a BPEL Domain
• Changing Oracle BPEL Server Mode.
• Deploying a BPEL Suitcase to a Specific Domain.
• Location of BPEL JAR Suitcase Files in a Specific Domain.
• Undeploying a BPEL Process from a Specific Domain
• Viewing BPEL Processes in Oracle BPEL Console.
• Dashboard Tab: Viewing Processes.
• BPEL Processes Tab: Managing the Process Life Cycle.
• Process Life Cycle Recommendations for a Development Environment.
• Process Life Cycle Recommendations for a Production Environment.
• Example: Life Cycle of Processes.
• Instances Tab: Viewing Process Instances
• Activities Tab: Viewing Process Activities.
• Build and Command Line Tools.
• Apache Ant.
• bpelc.
• Examples.
• schema
• Examples.
• Summary .

• Introduction to OWSM
• Debugging of BPEL Process
• BPEL Integration with Various Systems
• Design Patterns in SOA
• SOA Best Practices
• Introduction to BPA (Business Process Analytics)