Sending Dynamic HTML-based Emails for SOA and BPM Projects by Mark Peterson

April 13, 2017 Leave a comment

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Sending email notifications in Oracle BPEL or BPM projects can turn into a major effort if you are not using ADF–and sometimes even if you are using ADF. If you use ADF, you can leverage features such as HTML editors and actionable emails. But in many situations you may need a stand-alone email formatting solution that doesn’t involve ADF, that can produce a simple HTML-based email, and that doesn’t need to be actionable. You will find that that simple SOA-based approach helps you implement your requirements efficiently and effectively.

This approach

  • Integrates with BPM and BPEL
  • Is HTML-based and can contain dynamic information from a database
  • Leverages BPEL and BPM direct assignments and role-based assignments
  • Includes a template selector, for sending different types of emails
  • Handles attachments
  • Intercepts and redirects emails for testing purposes

A detailed description of this email notification system is described below. Upon request we would be happy to provide the actual project code describe here.

Input XML

This is a sample of the input XML. Notice the data includes

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BPM 12c Migration – A Deep Dive into a Simple 10g Process Migration by Aaron Dolan

April 12, 2017 Leave a comment

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Since Oracle BPM 12c was released this summer, many of our legacy BPM 10g customers have begun to ask what to expect from the migration path.  As my colleague Suyash Khot discussed in his article Oracle BPM 12c Migration – A Hand of Friendship to Oracle BPM 10g, Oracle has luckily given us a migration utility to kick-start the process of moving code from Oracle BPM 10g to Oracle BPM 12c.  While this utility is incredibly valuable and indeed very easy to use, it is well worth discussing the advantages and challenges this conversion presents us with.

This is the first in a series of articles where I’ll explore how various 10g coding patterns are translated into 12c and how we might overcome some of the issues this presents us with.  While in many cases the conversion is clean and maintenance-free, in other cases there is work to be done and issues to be on the lookout for.

In preparation for this article, I created a very simple, happy path Order Entry process in Oracle BPM 10g:   

You’ll notice that this consists of the “Place Customer Order” Global Creation Activity that calls the “PlaceCustomerOrderSF” screenflow: Read the complete article here.

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Human Workflow: Working with Collections and Repeating Stages by Fusion Applied

April 11, 2017 Leave a comment

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In this video you will learn how to work with collections and repeating stages in a Human Task. This is an excerpt from one of our self paced courses. Watch the video here.

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Adaptive Case Management Methodology published in Best Practices for Knowledge Workers (digital edition)

April 10, 2017 Leave a comment

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Working on an Adaptive Case Management (ACM) opportunity? Read the ACM Methodology published in the Best Practices for Knowledge Workers (Digital edition) book.

BPM-based solutions have brought major advances to work organization and automation. However, given BPM’s strong basis on formal workflow definition, oftentimes BPM solutions are not well suited for work scenarios where a precise workflow cannot be strictly defined. Work in such scenarios is highly dependent on knowledge-based decisions about activities and outcomes, leading to multiple work paths and business rules that can become quite complex or even unfeasible to model and completely automate. In these cases, a different technology support approach is required. The focus is not to isolate and automate decisions and rules, but rather to deliver opportunistic information support to the knowledge worker to accomplish them. Adaptive Case Management (ACM) rises as a successful design pattern for this. Get the eBook here.

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Real estate valuation using Process Cloud Service by Stefan Woermcke

April 9, 2017 Leave a comment

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Real estate valuation using Oracle Process Cloud Service by

End to end process flow demonstrating how to use the pre built property evaluation process running on Oracle Process Cloud Service. Watch the video here

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Process Cloud Service Connectors (Part 1 of 2): Web Service Connector by Antonis Antoniou

April 8, 2017 Leave a comment

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Oracle Process Cloud Service applications can communicate and exchange data with external applications that are exposed as either REST or Web Services.
In this first part of a two part series on connectors we will explore the Web Service Connector in Oracle Process Cloud Service to exchange data with an external application using the SOAP protocol.
To create a Web Service (SOAP) connection in Oracle Process Cloud Service, you need the following information:

  • WSDL file (upload from file or remove via URL)
  • The WSDL file should include a port type and a callback port type
  • If the service you are trying to invoke is secure, then you will need the username and password required to access the service

So let’s see how you can create a Web Service Connector in Oracle Process Cloud Service. The scenario will be quite simple.

We will have a process that will invoke a publicly available web service, GeoIPService to lookup countries by IP address. The process will start with a form pattern, where the user will type in the IP address. The process will then invoke the GeoIPService, passing it the IP address typed in by the user and using a second human task, it will display the country where that IP address is.

First thing that we will do is to create a new application in Oracle Process Cloud Service. I’ve named it "Web Service Connector Demo App" and created a new space (aantoniou) to file this new application under. Read the complete article here.

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Process, Integration & API Partner Summit! April 25th–27th Oracle HQ

April 7, 2017 Leave a comment

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Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity to meet and drive a closer engagement with Oracle’s Development, Engineering and Product Management Team April 25th – 27th, 2017!
Topics: Cloud Integration, Product Roadmaps, Partner Feedback, Q&A.
Target Group: Oracle Process, Integration & API Partners with Oracle iPaaS opportunities.

Summit agenda

· Oracle iPaaS for Cloud and Hybrid Integration

· Rich Connectivity with Cutting Edge SaaS and On-Prem Adapters

· Microservices Role in an Integration world?

· Bringing SOA to the Cloud

· Next Generation Outcomes with APIP CS and Apiary Design
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· Automation with Process

· Integration & Streaming Analytics

· Oracle Self-Service Integration Cloud Service “SSI” that’s NEW!

· Extreme File Handling

· Digital Process Apps Made Simple

Opportunity for partners to grow with the fastest growing iPaaS in the industry! Learn from key examples and success! Transform to be a leader in cloud integration solutions with Oracle!

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PaaS & Middleware Partner YouTube Update April 2017

April 6, 2017 Leave a comment


PaaS Partner Community Forum special edition from Split includes:

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For regular information please become a member in the free SOA & BPM Partner Community http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soaFor regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Thanks for your likes and sharing the video on YouTube and LinkedIn. For the latest WebLogic & Developer Partner Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required)

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5.000.000 Messages per Day Handled by Oracle Service Bus 11g by Pavel Samolysov

April 5, 2017 Leave a comment

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Hello everyone! Let me share a story about how to build an enterprise service bus (ESB), which connects together a number of legacy application and a new-born centralized information system, and how Oracle Service Bus (OSB) can help handle up to 5.000.000 messages in a day ensuring guaranteed delivery.

Challenge

Every data change from a one application (a source) must be synchronized with another application (a destination) in the near real-time mode, batch processing is not a solution. So, the changes need to be captured and free to publish on a service bus. The following pattern works fine: when a user changes data in the source application, a trigger in an application database creates a record in an event table. Let’s name a record in the event table as a "event". A event is specified by an id; a changed entity type; an operation, such as to create, update or delete; a state, such as new, in process, successful processed, unsuccessful processed. Actual data can be retrieved from the database using an id and a changed entity type because there is a database view for each type of entities, the bus has a concern in. The OSB instance polls the events using the database adapter and selects a corresponding record from a database view. The content of the retrieved record is transformed to the canonical data model of the service bus, from zero till five messages are generated for one database record. The messages are put in a JMS-queue, and the corresponding records in the database marked with the "in process" flag.
In order to send messages into a destination application, there is the OSB proxy-service gets messages from the JMS-queue, transforms it from the canonical model to a destination format, and calls a web-service provided by the destination application. The proxy-service waits for a service response, retrieves a status of handling from this one and put the status into a statuses queue. The bus gets the status from the queue and updates a corresponding record in the event table of the source application database.
Read the complete article here.

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Restoring OSB 12.2.1 Maven Functionality by Robert Patrick

April 4, 2017 Leave a comment

It seems that testing of the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Maven functionality in the new 12.2.1 release failed to catch a few issues that make the OSB Maven plugin unusable out of the box.  Oracle is aware of the issue and working to create a patch for this.  In the meantime, users can work around the problem with a few simple changes.  This blog documents those changes.

Fixing the com.oracle.servicebus:client POM

The first change we need to make is to edit the com.oracle.servicebus:client POM.  This POM can be found at ${ORACLE_HOME}/osb/plugins/maven/com/oracle/servicebus/client/12.2.1/client-12.2.1.pom.  Open this file in a text editor and make the following changes.

  1. Delete the <dependency> stanza for the com.oracle.weblogic:wlthint3client.  This artifact does not exist.  Fortunately, it is is not needed since the weblogic-server-pom dependency provides all of the connectivity to WebLogic Server that is required.
  2. In the weblogic-server-pom dependency, change the <version> element’s value from “LATEST” to “[12.2.1,12.2.2)” (without the double quotes).
  3. In the com-bea-core-xml-xmlbeans dependency, change the <artifactId> element’s value from “com-bea-core-xml-xmlbeans” to “com.bea.core.xml.xmlbeans” (without the double quotes).
  4. In the com-bea-core-xml-xmlbeans dependency, change the <version> element’s value from “LATEST” to “[12.2.1,12.2.2)” (without the double quotes).

After making these changes, the relevant section of the file should look like the one shown here. Read the complete article here.

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