SOA Suite Composite Sensors: the why and how… by Martien van den Akker

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Introduction

Long time ago BPEL PM was acquired by Oracle, and as part of the first release of SOA Suite (10g), it was a more or less standalone component. For initiated BPEL flow instances in the soa infrastructure database there were 2 tables:

  1. cube_instance: bpel flow instances
  2. ci_indexes: 6 indexes related to the bpel flow that can be set with an embedded java call

These 2 tables store the BPEL instances, along with a set of indexes that you could, and in 11g and 12c still can, set with a value that you determine during the flow. Yes, these tables still exist in the soa infra database. So, let’s say in your BPEL you have several string based variables that you fill with a value from the input message using an assing. Then within an Embedded Java activity, you can do something like: Read the complete article here.

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About Jürgen Kress
As a middleware expert Jürgen works at Oracle EMEA Alliances and Channels, responsible for Oracle’s EMEA Fusion Middleware partner business. He is the founder of the Oracle SOA & BPM and the WebLogic Partner Communities and the global Oracle Partner Advisory Councils. With more than 5000 members from all over the world the Middleware Partner Community is the most successful and active community at Oracle. Jürgen manages the community with monthly newsletters, webcasts and conferences. He hosts his annual Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forums and the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps, where more than 200 partners get product updates, roadmap insights and hands-on trainings. Supplemented by many web 2.0 tools like twitter, discussion forums, online communities, blogs and wikis. For the SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl, Jürgen is a member of the steering board. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences like the SOA & BPM Integration Days, JAX, UKOUG, OUGN, or OOP.

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