13.1 Introduction to Oracle BPEL Control

Oracle BPEL Control is a browser-based tool for managing the life cycle of a BPEL process. You can use it to view currently running BPEL processes to determine the success of the processing and then correct any problems in Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

Oracle BPEL Control is also useful for deciding when a process is ready for production mode. For example, assume that you compiled and deployed version 1.0 of your BPEL process and subsequently a newer version, version 2.0. After testing and verification of your BPEL process, you can use Oracle BPEL Control to mark one of the versions as the default. Then new instances are started using this definition.

Read this chapter to understand:

• How to monitor deployed, running, and completed processes

• How to manage a process life cycle and initiate processes

• How to monitor process instances

• How to monitor process activities

• How to change domains