BPM 12c Events (Part 3 of 3): Intermediate Events by Antonis Antoniou

March 3, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001The third and last set of events are referred to as "Intermediate Events" and as the name implies they can occur between the start events and end events.
"Intermediate Events" are sub-classified into two groups, "Catch Events" and "Throw Events".
"Catch Events" can occur anywhere in the middle of the process and what they do is that they block the process for specific conditions. We do have a variety of "Catch Event" activities such as a "Catch Message", a "Catch Timer" and a "Catch Signal" activity.
The "Catch Timer" event provides a delay mechanism in a process flow. The delay can be based on a specific date and time or on a recurring interval, for example, every day at a specific time.

The "Catch Message" activity is also used to model a request-response and receive-reply patterns. It is equivalent to a BPEL receive, so instead of having a "Send Activity" to call a service or a process and a "Receive Activity" to receive the response from a service or a process, you can use a "Throw Message" and a "Catch Message" respectively. Read the complete article here.

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Subversion revision of a deployed BPM/SOA composite? By Luc Gorissen

March 2, 2016 Leave a comment

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So there you are: a production error was reported … in your code (of all places) … but no one knows what release the code came from?

Wouldn’t it be great if it was easy to link deployed composites to their Subversion location and revision?

This article show an approach based on ‘Subversion keywords expansion’. This is illustrated with the following steps:

  1. Add properties to the composite.xml file
  2. Set Subversion keywords for composite.xml
  3. Query the deployed composite with wlst
  4. Solve the limitations in Subversion keyword expansion

Let’s get started:

Step 1: add properties to the composite.xml

In composite.xml, add the below lines after the properties for productVersion and compositeID that JDeveloper already added: Read the complete article here.

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Quick tips on Case Management audit events by Vikram Bailur

March 1, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Adaptive Case Management has rich APIs to retrieve the events that transpired within a case instance. Here is an example of using case events and some important tips. This information applies to Oracle BPM 11g and 12c.

Create a java class with a main method to retrieve the case audit events

Some key tips:

1. Passing a null value for TEventType will retrieve all the case events just like the default view on the case workspace. Passing a specific value retrieves only those specific event types – see the API for more details.

2. Make sure the pageNum and pageSize are in the correct position when calling the method – it will not retrieve any values if they are wrong.

3. Using additionalCaseEventInfo.add(ICaseConstants.CaseEventInfo.taskInfo); will work only for Case activities that are Human Tasks (does not work on BPMN or custom case activities). This retrieves an oracle.bpm.casemgmt.task.model.TaskInfo object that will retrieve all the details on the task including task assignees (see oracle.bpm.casemgmt.task.model.Task API for more details). Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Application Player by Andrejus Baranovskis

February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002With Oracle Process Cloud you can forget these days when you was waiting long to deploy BPM process and test Human Task UI. No need to wait anymore, in Oracle Process Cloud you could use Application Player feature, this allows to run the process and test Human Task UI almost instantly.
To demonstrate Application Player functionality, I have implemented basic process of Data Entry for the Claim Handling:

This process is using Web Form in the Start activity to capture data, human activity Claim Expense Review allows to review entered data, before submitting it:

This is how Web Form UI design looks like: Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Service – Reusable Subprocesses by Niall Commiskey

February 28, 2016 Leave a comment

 

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Process A calling process B.
B has a human task –

I now validate the application –

Let’s look at the implementation of the Call activity –
Note: no processes in the dropdown list –

Reusable Subprocesses

So what’s needed here is a reusable sun-process.

This is a process with a "None" start activity.

Here is mine – as you can see, I have added an Approval task.

Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Service – Consuming ADF BC REST Service in Web Form by Andrejus Baranovskis

February 27, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002With the introduction of Oracle Process Cloud Service (https://cloud.oracle.com/process) there is an option to run your business process in the cloud. You can implement very similar things as it is possible with BPM 12c in JDeveloper, but only in the cloud. There is no option to implement human task UI with ADF, it must be done with Web Forms (light UI forms implementation framework). This is disadvantage, as it will require to externalise complex business logic and access data collections through REST calls, instead of processing it locally in ADF extension. However, this is how it is implemented currently in the BPM cloud version.
This is how it looks – Web Form editor in Process Cloud Service:

You have an option to select specific types from component palette. There are such types as money, email, phone, text. Components are provided with built in validation, checks for valid email address, etc. User who implements a form, needs to drag and drop components one by one (generally it works OK, but sometimes may get stuck and page refresh will be required). Properties section is available to enter details for the selected component.
Cool part about it – we can define business logic rules. For example, to show/hide customer field based on trip type, etc. One of the rules below, shows how REST service can be called inline and REST response is applied for drop-down field. This is pretty simple to fetch data from external REST service and use it for the Web Form component. Just invoke REST service and assign collection to the component supporting array of data: Read the complete article here.

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February 26, 2016 Leave a comment

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Process Cloud Service –> Process A calling Process B via Send/Receive by Niall Commiskey

February 26, 2016 Leave a comment

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Another simple scenario, leading on from the last post.
I have now added process C to my application –
It does a security check on my order –

Now I call this from ProcessA using Send and Receive activities.

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Send configuration –

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Receive configuration –

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BTW. Here is a list of the valid types –

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I do the necessary data associations and then deploy/test –
I then check for completed instances in the Tracking tab.

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Here I see 2 instances, one for A and one for C.
Remember, we do not see a separate instance for B as it is being leveraged as a reusable process.
To quote the docs –
The call activity lets you call a reusable process from within the current process. The
process being called becomes a child process of the calling process. When calling a
reusable process, the call activity of the parent process waits until the child process
completes before continuing.

I check the audit trail for ProcessA –Read the complete article here.

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Integration Cloud Service – free hands-on Bootcamp for Oracle Partners – April 4th-5th 2016 Munich Germany

February 25, 2016 Leave a comment

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To become an Oracle PaaS expert we do offer a free hands-on Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Bootcamp in Munich. Make advantage and register now!

Integration Cloud Service Bootcamp April 4th – 5th 2016

Simplify Integration.

Maximize the value of your investments in SaaS and on-premises applications through a simple and powerful integration platform in the cloud. clip_image002

  • Fast. Get started in minutes!
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  • Enterprise-Grade. A secure, performant and highly available platform for your mission-critical integrations.
  • Integrated. Pre-integrated with your Oracle SaaS applications.

Attend a free hands-on workshop to learn Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) hands-on- Goal of the workshop is to build SaaS and on-premises integrations as well your own cloud adapters with the SDK.

Target audience:

Integration Developers, Solution Architects, Technology Consultants

Tainer:

Niall Commisskey

Registration is free of charge, except in case of cancellation fee € 150 or no-show fee €2000! Please read the registration page very careful before you register here: München April 4th- 5th 2016

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Process Cloud Service – SOAP Web Service Integration by Andrejus Baranovskis

February 25, 2016 Leave a comment

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Oracle Process Cloud (https://cloud.oracle.com/process) allows to invoke SOAP services, along with REST services. You can define a library of SOAP services in Oracle Process Cloud application and use them within the process. This helps to integrate with business logic running on premise.
I have implemented regular SOAP service in ADF BC, just to test how it works to invoke it from Process Cloud:

SOAP service method accepts employee ID and checks the status. ADF BC application is deployed on standalone WLS. Make sure to select correct deployment profile, when deploying ADF BC with SOAP on standalone server, otherwise SOAP service reference will be missing in deployed application. You should use ADF BC service deployment profile:

Once SOAP service is deployed, you can access WSDL file through Enterprise Manager. Oracle Process Cloud currently doesn’t support direct SOAP references, instead you must provide WSDL file copy for Web Service registration: Read the complete article here.

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