Creating a Composite Application

Add the JBI module to the BPEL Module project before deploying the Composite Application. Deploying the project makes the service assembly available to the application server, thus allowing its service units to execute.

To Create a Composite Application

1. Choose File —> New Project from the main menu.

   The New Project wizard appears.

2. Select the SOA node from the Categories list.
3. Select the Composite Application node from the Projects list.
4. Click Next.
   
5. Type SendInventoryCompAppl in the Project Name field.
6. Click Finish.

   The Projects window now contains a project node for a Composite Application project called SendInventoryCompAppl.

   
   

   This action displays a message in the Output console.

   XML validation finished

7. Either right-click the SendInventoryCompAppl Composite Application Project node or expand the node. Select JBI Modules.
8. Select Add JBI Module.
9. Select the Project. Click Add Project JAR Files.

   The Project JAR Files is build/SEDeployment.jar.

   
   

   The SendInvetory.jar is added to the project.

10. Click Save All.
    
11. Right-click the SendInventoryCompAppl Composite Application project node. Select Clean and Build.
    

    This action displays a message in the Output console:

    BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 1 seconds)

12. Click Save All.

Deploying the Composite Application

The File Binding Component picks up messages from a local directory. The FTP Binding Component transports messages between the consumer and the provider using FTP.

To Deploy the Composite Application

1. Create a folder and save the file in the local directory.

   For example, use a folder name of c:/temp and file name of inventory%d.xml.

   
   
2. Create a folder on the FTP Server named book_updates.

   The folder is empty before deployment.

   
   
3. Select the SendInventoryCompAppl project node in the Projects window.
4. Right-click and choose Deploy.
   

   After deployment of the project, the following message appears in the Output window:

   BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 18 seconds)

5. Check for the folder in the local directory.

   Two folders are created under SendInventoryCompAppl_FileInboundService_fileTrig-45609436–4:

   1. archive
   2. filebc-in processing
      
6. Check the folders on the FTP Server.

   After deployment, inbox and instage folders are created.

   
   
7. Double-click the folder /inbox to check the output.

   The message routing starts with the consumer invoking a service (INVOKE in BPEL script). On the other side of the NMR, FTP BC OutboundProcessor accepts the request message, de-normalizes the message and labels the message body (which is the payload to a FTP file) with name as req.