Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF Human Tasks by Andrejus Baranovskis

May 5, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002I’m diving into the new topic – Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF integration. Today will be the first post in the category and there are more posts planned for the future. I strongly believe that ACM (Adaptive Case Management) makes a great extension for standard BPM. Mainly because it allows to define a loose process, without strict order steps. Process steps can be executed in different order, depending on the situation requirements, at given time. I will be explaining how to implement ADF Human Task for ACM activity and will share several tips, how to make it run in BPM Workspace application.
This is how sample application (HotelBookingProcessing_v1.zip) is constructed, there are two Human Tasks (AddHotelBooking and ValidateHoteBooking) and HotelBookingProcessing Case control:

HotelBookinfProcessing case is defined with Hotel Booking Details data type (this type is based on XSD schema and is defined as Business Component variable – don’t mix up with ADF Business Components) – you can think about it as about main data structure type for the case, this can be transferred into every case activity: Read the complete article here.

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Creating Custom BPM Work List for Human Tasks based in ADF by Mark Peterson

March 30, 2015 Leave a comment

 

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If you ever need a custom work list and need to open the human task from this list, then this blog can help you. All you really need to do is find the list of tasks and create the URL that opens the task from the custom work list. This is not as straightforward as it seems since the URL contains some dynamic fields that you will need to derive from information about the tasks.

The need for a custom work list usually involves some sort of relationship between instances in a process, or between tasks in different processes such that the OOTB functionality of the BPM workspace is not sufficient. The user wants to see a logical grouping of tasks or between parent and child tasks. These tasks should be shown grouped together. These tasks can be shown in a table or tree format and each task should have a link to click on to open the task directly from the form. This is an example of such a list and grouping. Read the complete article here.

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Screenflows with BPM and ADF 12c by Marcel Maas

March 29, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002BPM 12c came with a slew of features that were scrapped when Oracle truly integrated the acquired BEA’s BPM implementation. One of those features is “screenflows”. I guess some of you, if not all of you have ever come across the situation where you needed to retrieve some information from a user using a human task, then do some logic and immediately provide the same user with a new screen for processing this data without having to go back to the tasklist.

In 11g there was no (out-of-the-box) way to do so, other than using the human workflow api or simply doing a service call from the existing task flow and not really going back to the process. Well now you can! And we are going to demonstrate it in this post. Now this feature is easily configured. We first need to make sure the server is configured correctly. Because this feature uses JMS messaging to function we need to a new topic as well as a new connection factory.

In WLS console in BpmModule create a new topic:

Name: UIBrokerTopic
JNDI Name: jms/bpm/UIBrokerTopic
Type: Topic (or Distributed unified Topic if clustered)

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BPM Authentication On Behalf Business User from ADF by Andrejus Baranovskis

March 28, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002This is the next post in the series of ADF/BPM integration, check previous post available here – Dynamic ADF Buttons Solution for Oracle BPM Outcomes. Here I’m going to describe how you could authenticate with BPM from ADF through a proxy user, on top you could apply only business user name, password will not be required.
There is API method available – authenticateOnBehalf(context, userName), you must have a valid connection context created and with authenticateOnBehalf method you could set to use any valid user name, instead of proxy user. Here is the example for Workflow Context: Read the complete article here.

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Dynamic ADF Form Solution for Oracle BPM Process by Andrejus Baranovskis

February 25, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002I was working recently on integrating ADF 11.1.2.4 and BPM 11.1.1.7 environments. This worked pretty well, all configuration was done based on my previous blog post for similar topic, only previous ADF and BPM versions – BPM 11g R1 Worklist Integration (Hacking Experiment) Into Non-SOA ADF 11g R2 Domain. Goal of this post is to describe dynamic ADF form approach associated with BPM process human task.
BPM payload contains additional element called voInstanceName. This element is supposed to contain ADF VO instance name, this instance will be used later to render dynamic ADF UI for the currently selected task:

Sample application – adfbpm11gr4.zip, is based on two separate applications. One implements simple BPM process with payload including ADF VO instance name and another implements standalone dynamic ADF application with BPM API.
There are two human tasks in BPM process. Each of these human tasks accepts a payload element with ADF VO instance name. This allows to control ADF UI from BPM process, by providing ADF VO instance name to be used in ADF. The first human task is set to work with EmployeesView1 instance: Read the complete article here.

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Adding an ADF Human Task User Interface to our SOA Maven build by Mark Nelson

November 4, 2014 Leave a comment

With the new Maven support in 12c, it is much simpler now to include our ADF projects in our SOA Application build. Continuing on from this earlier post, we will now add the ADF project.
You can do this by opening the Human Task (from the composite view) and clicking on Form and Auto-Generate Task Form.
Then in the popup Create Project dialog box, give the project a name, I used HTUI1, and click on OK. It will take a few minutes to generate the project. When it is done, do a Save All for good measure.
Now if you want to take a look, you will see that you have three POM files – one for the SOA Project (composite), one for the ADF project, and also your application level POM. If you open the application level POM (that’s the one under Application Resources/Build Files, you will see that is is a multi-modules project that lists the other two, as you can see in the image below. It also has some configuration to tell Maven where to find ojdeploy. In this release, we still need to run ojdeploy to build and package the ADF projects, so you do need to have JDeveloper available to your build server if you want to build ADF projects there. Read the complete article here.

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Back-end to the Future: Using your Existing Oracle ADF Applications as a Pillar of your Mobile Strategy, white paper

March 16, 2014 Leave a comment

Mobility has been a significant trend in IT for several years now. Laptops have been outselling desktops since 2008, and it seems that tablet shipments will surpass desktops in 2013 and laptops in 2014. In that context, the real question for your organization is not if it will build mobile applications, but when. To negotiate this transition successfully, one cannot ignore other technology trends.

Read the white paper here.

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Oracle BPM and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) by Dan Atwood

February 14, 2013 Leave a comment

(This is an excerpt from Lesson 8 "Oracle BPM and ADF (Part 1)" from Avio Consulting’s new self-paced online Oracle BPM Developer Workshop training.)

Understanding ADF’s architecture is an essential step to understanding how to use it with Oracle BPM. This describes the different layers of ADF’s architecture and how they tie to Oracle BPM.

ADF Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture
ADF is built on a Model View Controller design pattern that separates the data from how the end users interact with the data.

In MVC, the Model layer represents the underlying data that is exposed and manipulated. The View layer represents the web based user interface (UI) forms that end users interact with. The Controller layer is the connection between the Model and the View layers, taking what the end users see and change on the View’s UI forms and connects it to the Model’s source(s) of the data. Read the article here.

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Build Mobile App for E-Business Suite Using SOA Suite and ADF Mobile By Michelle Kimihira

December 27, 2012 Leave a comment

With the upcoming release of Oracle ADF Mobile, I caught up with Srikant Subramaniam, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware post OpenWorld to learn about the cool hands-on lab at OpenWorld. For those of you who missed it, you will want to keep reading.

Author: Srikant Subramaniam, Senior Principal Product Manager,Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Oracle ADF Mobile enables rapid and declarative development of native on-device mobile applications. These native applications provide a richer experience for smart devices users running Apple iOS or other mobile platforms. Oracle ADF Mobile protects Oracle customers from technology shifts by adopting a metadata-based development framework that enables developer to develop one app (using Oracle JDeveloper), and deploy to multiple device platforms (starting with iOS and Android).

Oracle ADF Mobile also enables IT organizations to leverage existing expertise in web-based and Java development by adopting a hybrid application architecture that brings together HTML5, Java, and device native container:

  • HTML5 allows developer to deliver device-native user experiences while maintaining portability across different platforms
  • Java allows developers to create modules to support business logic and data services
  • Native container provides integration into device services such as camera, contacts, etc

All these technologies are packaged into a development framework that supports declarative application development through Oracle JDeveloper. ADF Mobile also provides out of box integratoin with key Fusion Middleware components, such as SOA Suite and Business Process Management (BPM).

Oracle Fusion Middleware provides the necessary infrastructure to extend business processes and services to the mobile device — enabling the mobile user to participate in human tasks – without the additional “mobile middleware” layer. When coupled with Oracle SOA Suite, this combination can execute business transactions on Oracle E-Business Suite (or any Oracle Application).
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Learn Advanced ADF online – for free by Grant Ronald

September 10, 2012 Leave a comment

DF knowledge is key for any BPM implementation! The second part of the advanced ADF online eCourse is Live now! This covers the advanced topics of region and region interaction as well as getting down and dirty with some of the layout features of ADF Faces, skinning and DVT components.

The aim of this course is to give you a self-paced learning aid which covers the more advanced topics of ADF development. The content is developed by Product Management and our Curriculum development teams and is based on advanced training material we have been running internally for about 18 months. We will get started on the next chapter, but in the meantime, please have a look at chapters one and two.

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