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Event System Demonstration

The Event System Demonstration is an example of using events to transmit business documents between two systems. You initiate the demonstration process by entering a purchase order on one system. Oracle Workflow generates a purchase order XML document and sends this document to a second system. The second system processes the purchase order and sends back to the first system three XML documents representing a purchase order acknowledgement, an advanced shipment notice, and an invoice.

You can initiate this example process if you are using the standalone version of Oracle Workflow. If you are using Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications, you should consider this process mainly as an example for explanation purposes and not for demonstration use. The files necessary to set up and run this demonstration are not provided with the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications.

Attention: For detailed information about runnable workflow processes that are integrated with Oracle Applications or Oracle Self-Service Web Applications, refer to the appropriate Oracle Applications User's Guide or online documentation. See: Predefined Workflow Embedded in Oracle Applications and Oracle Self-Service Web Applications.

Before running the Event System Demonstration, you must set up the two installations of Oracle Workflow you want to use for the demonstration, one as a Buyer system and the other as a Supplier system. Then you can initiate an Event System Demonstration process on the Buyer system from the Workflow Demonstrations web page. When you initiate the process, you must specify an order number, item number, item description, deliver date, total amount, and order requestor role for the purchase order.

When you submit the purchase order, the order information is inserted into a database table and a purchase order event is raised with the order number as the event key. Because a subscription to this event requires the complete event data, the Event Manager runs the Generate function for the event to produce a valid purchase order XML document.

Raising the purchase order event triggers the subscription to this event that has the source type Local. The rule function for this subscription sends the event to the Buyer: Top Level PO process in the Event System Demonstration item type, with the event key (the order number) as the correlation ID. The Workflow Engine creates a new instance of this process with that correlation ID as the item key.

During the purchase order processing in the Buyer: Top Level PO process, a standard external Java function activity retrieves the name of the order requestor from the purchase order XML document, so that the process can send notifications to the requestor. The purchase order event message is sent to the Supplier system, and then the process waits to receive responses from the supplier.

When the purchase order event arrives at the Supplier system, the subscription to this event with the source type External is triggered. The rule function for this subscription sends the event to the Supplier: Top Level Order process in the Event System Demonstration item type, with the event key (order number) as the correlation ID. The Workflow Engine creates a new instance of this process with that correlation ID as the item key.

During the purchase order processing in the Supplier: Top Level Order process, standard external Java function activities retrieve the item number and item description from the purchase order XML document. The process sends event messages containing the following XML documents back to the Buyer system:

On the Buyer system, these events trigger subscriptions with the source type External that send the event messages to the Buyer: Top Level PO process, using the correlation ID to match the messages with the running process to which they belong. The process receives the event messages and notifies the order requestor when each one arrives. After all three response documents have been received, the process completes.

See Also

Installing the Event System Demonstration Data Model

Initiating the Event System Demonstration Workflow

The Event System Demonstration Item Type

Summary of the Buyer: Top Level PO Process

Buyer: Top Level PO Process Activities

Summary of the Buyer: Send PO to Supplier Subprocess

Buyer: Send PO to Supplier Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Buyer: Receive Supplier PO Acknowledgement Subprocess

Buyer: Receive Supplier PO Acknowledgement Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Buyer: Advanced Shipment Notice Subprocess

Buyer: Advanced Shipment Notice Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Buyer: Receive Supplier Invoicing Subprocess

Buyer: Receive Supplier Invoicing Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Supplier: Top Level Order Process

Supplier: Top Level Order Process Activities

Summary of the Supplier: Get Order Details Subprocess

Supplier: Get Order Details Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Supplier: Credit Check Subprocess

Supplier: Credit Check Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Supplier: Stock Check Subprocess

Supplier: Stock Check Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Supplier: Advanced Shipment Notice Subprocess

Supplier: Advanced Shipment Notice Subprocess Activities

Summary of the Supplier: Send Supplier Invoice Subprocess

Supplier: Send Supplier Invoice Subprocess Activities

B2B Purchase Order Event

B2B Purchase Order Acknowledgement Event

B2B Advanced Shipment Notice Event

B2B Invoice Event

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