JDeveloper-Creating a Simple BPEL Process

Creating a Simple BPEL Process : HelloWorld BPEL

Business Process Execution Language(BPEL) is an execution language for defining business processes. In short, it is the language for orchestrating multiple WebServices based on the business logic.

This post is about creating your first BPEL process using Oracle SOA Suite 11g

This is a simple BPEL process that gives back fullName as response, inputs being firstName & lastName

Defining your first BPEL Process

Create a new Project, name it HelloWorldBPELPrj and select Empty Composite in the next screen'

Define a Schema as follows

In the composite file, drag and drop BPEL Processcomponent from the Component Palette into the Components swimlane of the composite.xml

This will open up a wizard where you need to give the following details

Name : HelloWorldBPEL

Template : Syncrhonous BPEL Process

Select Input and Outputfrom the schema just created

Select the checkbox "Expose as a SOAP WebService" so that it creates a WebService with the same message types in the External References section of the composite.xml, though which external clients talk to this BPEL process

This will create the following in the composite.xml

Now that you've created the skeleton, lets implement the BPEL process.

Either open the .bpel file from the Navigator or double click the BPEL process icon in the coposite.xml - this will take you to the BPEL Component Editor where you'll implement the business logic in the BPEL process

When you look at the empty BPEL process, you'll find an incoming line from the external WS to Receive Activity, and an outgoing line from Reply Activity to the same external WS. These lines represent the flow of message to and from the WS to the BPEL Process

Note : Every operation in a BPEL process is called an Activity

Click on the "X" symbol in the boundary enclosing both the activities. The boundary is called a Scope in BPEL, which is similar to Scope in any programming language

This will open up variables section, where you'll see 2 variables (inputVariable and outputVariable). The inputVariable contains the the value coming into the BPEL process from the external WS.

In this example, inputVariable contains just a simple string, name

We need to concatenate this with 'Hello ' and assign it to the output variable. This can be done using Assign activity

Drag and drop Assign activity in between the two activities, name it AssignOutput

Here, we need to concatenate both the elements from the input and assign it to the output.  

 

For this, click on the Expression icon at the top right as shown

Use the concat() function from the String functions and append Helloto the name from the inputVariable, as shown

This will create a function icon in the middle of the Assing editor, where you need to drag this to assign it to the returnMsg of the outputVariable and click OK

With this, the outputVariable is stuffed which is sent back to the calling WS(indicated the outgoing line)

Thats it, you are done with your first BPEL process

Deploy the project as per this linkand test it in Enterprise Manager

Hope this tutorial gave you a basic understanding on working with a BPEL process.

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※ 참고사이트 : http://middlewareschools.com/bpel-in-helloworld

                      https://chendamok.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/soa-bpel-project-helloworld/ (SOA BPEL Project : HelloWorld)