Contents
- Audience
- Documentation Accessibility
- Related Documents
- Conventions
- 1.1 What Is BPEL?
- 1.2 What Is Oracle BPEL Process Manager?
- 1.3 What Is Oracle JDeveloper?
- 1.4 How to Use This Guide
- 1.5 Getting Started with Demonstrations, Activity and Conceptual References, and Tutorials
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- 1.5.1 What Demonstrations Are Available?
- 1.5.2 What Activity and Conceptual References Are Available?
- 1.5.3 What Tutorials Are Available?
- 1.6 Summary
- 2.1 Overview of Oracle BPEL Process Manager Components
- 2.2 Starting Oracle BPEL Process Manager Components
- 2.3 Overview of the BPEL Designer Environment
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- 2.3.1 Overview of BPEL Project Creation and Oracle JDeveloper
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- 2.3.1.1 Application Navigator
- 2.3.1.2 Diagram Window
- 2.3.1.3 Source Window
- 2.3.1.4 History Window
- 2.3.1.5 Component Palette
- 2.3.1.6 Property Inspector
- 2.3.1.7 Structure Window
- 2.3.1.8 Log Window
- 2.3.1.9 Editing Project Files in Oracle JDeveloper
- 2.4 Overview of Activities
- 2.5 Overview of Partner Links
- 2.6 Overview of Oracle BPEL Server
- 2.7 Overview of Oracle BPEL Control
- 2.8 Overview of Oracle BPEL Process Manager Services
- 2.9 Overview of Oracle BPEL Process Manager Technology Adapters
- 2.10 Summary
- 3.1 Use Cases for Manipulating XML Data in BPEL
- 3.2 Overview of Manipulating XML Data in BPEL Concepts
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- 3.2.1 How XML Data Works in BPEL
- 3.2.2 About Data Manipulation and XPath Standards
- 3.3 Initializing a Variable with Expression Constants or Literal XML
- 3.4 Copying Between Variables
- 3.5 Accessing Fields Within Element-Based and Message Type-Based Variables
- 3.6 Assigning Numeric Values
- 3.7 Mathematical Calculations with XPath Standards
- 3.8 Assigning String Literals
- 3.9 Concatenating Strings
- 3.10 Assigning Boolean Values
- 3.11 Assigning Date or Time
- 3.12 Manipulating Attributes
- 3.13 Manipulating XML Data with bpelx Extensions
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- 3.13.1 bpelx:append
- 3.13.2 bpelx:insertBefore
- 3.13.3 bpelx:insertAfter
- 3.13.4 bpelx:remove
- 3.13.5 bpelx:rename and XSD Type Casting
- 3.13.6 bpelx:copyList
- 3.14 Validating XML Data with bpelx:validate
- 3.15 Manipulating XML Data Sequences That Use Arrays
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- 3.15.1 Statically Indexing into an XML Data Sequence That Uses Arrays
- 3.15.2 Determining Sequence Size
- 3.15.3 Dynamically Indexing by Applying a Trailing XPath to an Expression
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- 3.15.3.1 Dynamic Indexing Example
- 3.15.3.2 Using the bpelx:append Extension to Append New Items to a Sequence
- 3.15.3.3 Merging Data Sequences
- 3.15.3.4 Dynamically Indexing with the BPEL getElement Function
- 3.15.3.5 Generating Functionality Equivalent to an Array of an Empty Element
- 3.15.4 SOAP-Encoded Arrays Not Supported
- 3.16 Converting from a String to an XML Element
- 3.17 Differences Between Document-Style and RPC-Style WSDL Files
- 3.18 Adding a Custom WSIF Provider
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- 3.18.1 Task 1: Register the WSDL Extension to the WSDL Reader
- 3.18.2 Task 2: Register the WSIF Provider
- 3.19 Input and Output Message Header Handling
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- 3.19.1 Header Handlers
- 3.19.2 Registering of Header Handlers
- 3.19.3 Manipulation of partnerLink Properties
- 3.20 Manipulating SOAP Headers in BPEL
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- 3.20.1 Receiving SOAP Headers in BPEL
- 3.20.2 Sending SOAP Headers in BPEL
- 3.21 Using Binary Attachments in SOAP Messages
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- 3.21.1 Use Case: SOAP Message with Binary Attachment Using MIME
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- 3.21.1.1 WSDL File Contents
- 3.21.1.2 BPEL File Contents
- 3.21.1.3 Java Client Using SAAJ
- 3.21.2 Displaying the Attachment Key for Binary Attachments Using the DIME Protocol in Oracle BPEL Control
- 3.22 Summary
- 4.1 Use Case for Synchronous Web Services
- 4.2 Overview of Synchronous Service Concepts
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- 4.2.1 Establishing the Partner Link
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- 4.2.1.1 Defining the Partner Link in the BPEL Code
- 4.2.1.2 Using the WSDL File to Enable the Web Services to Work with a BPEL Process
- 4.2.1.3 Performing Lookups for Services that Use Partner Links
- 4.2.1.4 Accessing Web Services on Remote Servers
- 4.2.2 Using the Invoke Activity to Perform a Request
- 4.3 Calling a Synchronous Service
- 4.4 Summary
- 5.1 Use Case for Asynchronous Web Services
- 5.2 Overview of Asynchronous Callback Concepts
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- 5.2.1 partnerLinkTypes for Asynchronous Services
- 5.2.2 Calling the Service from BPEL
- 5.2.3 How the Invoke and Receive Activities Work
- 5.2.4 Managing Multiple Active BPEL Process Instances Using Correlation Methods
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- 5.2.4.1 WS-Addressing
- 5.2.4.2 Using Correlation Sets to Coordinate Asynchronous Message Body Contents
- 5.2.5 Using the Reply Activity to Send Messages in Response to a Receive Activity
- 5.2.6 Using Dehydration Points to Maintain Long-Running Asynchronous Processes
- 5.3 Calling an Asynchronous Service
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- 5.3.1 Step 1: Adding a Partner Link for an Asynchronous Service
- 5.3.2 Step 2: Adding an Invoke Activity
- 5.3.3 Step 3: Adding a Receive Activity
- 5.3.4 Step 4: Performing Additional Activities
- 5.4 Using Correlation Sets in an Asynchronous Service
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- 5.4.1 Step 1: Creating a Project
- 5.4.2 Step 2: Configuring Partner Links and File Adapter Services
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- 5.4.2.1 Creating an Initial Partner Link and File Adapter Service
- 5.4.2.2 Creating a Second Partner Link and File Adapter Service
- 5.4.2.3 Creating a Third Partner Link and File Adapter Service
- 5.4.3 Step 3: Creating Three Receive Activities
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- 5.4.3.1 Creating an Initial Receive Activity
- 5.4.3.2 Creating a Second Receive Activity
- 5.4.3.3 Creating a Third Receive Activity
- 5.4.4 Step 4: Creating Correlation Sets
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- 5.4.4.1 Creating an Initial Correlation Set
- 5.4.4.2 Creating a Second Correlation Set
- 5.4.5 Step 5: Associating Correlation Sets with Receive Activities
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- 5.4.5.1 Associating the First Correlation Set with a Receive Activity
- 5.4.5.2 Associating the Second Correlation Set with a Receive Activity
- 5.4.5.3 Associating the Third Correlation Set with a Receive Activity
- 5.4.6 Step 6: Creating Property Aliases
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- 5.4.6.1 Creating Property Aliases for NameCorr
- 5.4.6.2 Creating Property Aliases for IDCorr
- 5.4.7 Step 7: Reviewing WSDL File Content
- 5.5 Summary
- 6.1 Use Case for Parallel Flows
- 6.2 Overview of Parallel Flow Concepts
- 6.3 Defining a Parallel Flow
- 6.4 Customizing the Number of Flow Activities by Using the flowN Activity
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- 6.4.1 BPEL Code Example of the FlowN Activity
- 6.5 Summary
- 7.1 Use Case for Conditional Branching
- 7.2 Overview of Conditional Branching Concepts
- 7.3 Using a Switch Activity to Define Conditional Branching
- 7.4 Using a While Activity to Define Conditional Branching
- 7.5 Summary
- 8.1 Use Case for Fault Handling
- 8.2 Defining a Fault Handler
- 8.3 BPEL Standard Faults
- 8.4 Categories of BPEL Faults
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- 8.4.1 Business Faults
- 8.4.2 Run-time Faults
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- 8.4.2.1 bindingFault
- 8.4.2.2 remoteFault
- 8.4.2.3 replayFault
- 8.4.2.4 Catching Run-time Faults Example
- 8.5 Getting Fault Details with the getFaultAsString XPath Extension Function
- 8.6 Using the Scope Activity to Manage a Group of Activities
- 8.7 Throwing Internal Faults
- 8.8 Returning External Faults
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- 8.8.1 Returning a Fault in a Synchronous Interaction
- 8.8.2 Returning a Fault in an Asynchronous Interaction
- 8.9 Using a Fault Handler within a Scope
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- 8.9.1 Using the Empty Activity to Insert No-Op Instructions into a Business Process
- 8.10 Using Compensation After Undoing a Series of Operations
- 8.11 Using the Terminate Activity to Stop a Business Process Instance
- 8.12 Fault Handling Example
- 8.13 Summary
- 9.1 Overview of Java and J2EE Code in BPEL Concepts
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- 9.1.1 Using Java Code with WSIF Binding
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- 9.1.1.1 Java Binding Service Using XML Simple Types
- 9.1.1.2 Java Binding Service Using Oracle BPEL Process Manager XML Facade
- 9.1.1.3 Java Binding Service Using XML DOM Elements
- 9.1.1.4 Throwing a WSDL Fault from a Java Binding
- 9.1.2 Using Java Code Wrapped as a SOAP Service
- 9.1.3 Directly Embedding Java Code in a BPEL Process
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- 9.1.3.1 Using the bpelx:exec Tag to Embed Java Code Snippets into a BPEL Process
- 9.1.3.2 Using an XML Facade to Simplify DOM Manipulation
- 9.1.3.3 bpelx:exec Built-in Methods
- 9.2 Using Java Embedding in a BPEL Process
- 9.3 Summary
- 10.1 Use Case for Events and Timeouts
- 10.2 Overview of Event and Timeout Concepts
- 10.3 Using the Pick Activity to Select Between Continuing a Process or Waiting
- 10.4 Using the Wait Activity to Set an Expiration Time
- 10.5 Setting Timeouts for Synchronous Processes
- 10.6 Defining a Timeout
- 10.7 Summary
- 11.1 Use Case for Invoking a BPEL Process
- 11.2 Overview of Invoking BPEL Process Concepts
- 11.3 Sending Messages to a BPEL Process from a Java or JSP Application
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- 11.3.1 Invoking a BPEL Process with the Generic Java API
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- 11.3.1.1 Connecting to Oracle BPEL Process Manager with the Locator Class
- 11.3.1.2 Passing XML Messages Through Java
- 11.3.1.3 Invoking a Two-Way Operation Through the Java API
- 11.3.1.4 Invoking a One-Way Operation Through the Java API
- 11.3.2 Retrieving Status or Results from Asynchronous BPEL Processes
- 11.3.3 Using the Java API from a Remote Client
- 11.3.4 Invoking a BPEL Process with the Web Service/SOAP Interface
- 11.4 Summary
- 12.1 One-Way Message
- 12.2 Synchronous Interaction
- 12.3 Asynchronous Interaction
- 12.4 Asynchronous Interaction with Timeout
- 12.5 Asynchronous Interaction with a Notification Timer
- 12.6 One Request, Multiple Responses
- 12.7 One Request, One of Two Possible Responses
- 12.8 One Request, a Mandatory Response, and an Optional Response
- 12.9 Partial Processing
- 12.10 Multiple Application Interactions
- 12.11 Summary
- 13.1 Use Case for Transformation
- 13.2 Creating an XSL Map File
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- 13.2.1 Creating a New XSL Map File
- 13.2.2 Creating an XSL Map File from Imported Source and Target Schema Files
- 13.3 Overview of the XSLT Mapper
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- 13.3.1 Notes on the Mapper
- 13.4 Using the XSLT Mapper
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- 13.4.1 Simple Copy by Linking Nodes
- 13.4.2 Setting Constant Values
- 13.4.3 Adding Functions
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- 13.4.3.1 Editing Function Parameters
- 13.4.3.2 Chaining Functions
- 13.4.3.3 Named Templates
- 13.4.3.4 Importing User-Defined Functions
- 13.4.4 Editing XPath Expressions
- 13.4.5 Adding XSLT Constructs
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- 13.4.5.1 Conditional Processing with xsl:if
- 13.4.5.2 Conditional Processing with xsl:choose
- 13.4.5.3 Handling Repetition or Arrays
- 13.4.6 Automatically Mapping Nodes
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- 13.4.6.1 Auto Map with Confirmation
- 13.4.7 Viewing Unmapped Target Nodes
- 13.4.8 Generating Dictionaries
- 13.4.9 Creating Map Parameters and Variables
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- 13.4.9.1 Creating a Map Parameter
- 13.4.9.2 Creating a Map Variable
- 13.4.10 Searching Source and Target Nodes
- 13.4.11 Ignoring Elements in the XSLT Document
- 13.4.12 Replacing a Schema in the XSLT Mapper
- 13.5 Testing the Map
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- 13.5.1 Test XSL Map Window
- 13.5.2 Generating Reports
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- 13.5.2.1 Correcting Memory Errors When Generating Reports
- 13.5.3 Sample XML Generation
- 13.6 Summary
- 14.1 Use Cases for Notification Service
- 14.2 Overview of Notification Service Concepts
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- 14.2.1 Reliable Notification Service
- 14.3 Configuring the Notification Service in Oracle JDeveloper
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- 14.3.1 The E-mail Notification Channel
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- 14.3.1.1 Setting E-mail Attachments
- 14.3.1.2 Formatting the Body of an E-mail Message as HTML
- 14.3.2 The Fax Notification Channel
- 14.3.3 The Pager Notification Channel
- 14.3.4 The SMS Notification Channel
- 14.3.5 The Voice Notification Channel
- 14.3.6 Setting E-mail Addresses and Telephone Numbers Dynamically
- 14.3.7 Selecting Notification Recipients by Browsing the User Directory
- 14.3.8 Starting Business Processes with the E-mail Activation Agent
- 14.3.9 XML Validation Failure with the Notification Service
- 14.4 Summary
- 15.1 Oracle BPEL Process Manager Workflow Services 10.1.2 and 10.1.3.1.0 Compatibility
- 15.2 Overview of Workflow Services
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- 15.2.1 Workflow Functionality: A Procurement Process Example
- 15.2.2 Workflow Services Components
- 15.3 Use Cases for Workflow Services
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- 15.3.1 Assigning a Task to a User or Role
- 15.3.2 Using the Various Participant Types
- 15.3.3 Escalation, Expiration, and Delegation
- 15.3.4 Automatic Assignment and Delegation
- 15.3.5 Work Queues and Proxy Support
- 15.3.6 The Oracle BPEL Worklist Application
- 15.4 Participant Types in Workflow Services
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- 15.4.1 Continuing Workflows from Other Workflows
- 15.5 Overview of the Modeling Process
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- 15.5.1 Create a Human Task Definition with the Human Task Editor
- 15.5.2 Associate the Human Task Definition with a BPEL Process
- 15.5.3 Generate the Task Display Form
- 15.6 Task 1: Creating the Human Task Definition with the Human Task Editor
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- 15.6.1 Accessing the Human Task Editor
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- 15.6.1.1 From the Application Navigator
- 15.6.1.2 From the Component Palette
- 15.6.2 Reviewing the Sections of the Human Task Editor
- 15.6.3 Specifying the Task Title, Priority, Outcome, and Owner
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- 15.6.3.1 Specifying a Task Title and Priority
- 15.6.3.2 Specifying a Task Outcome
- 15.6.3.3 Specifying a Task Owner
- 15.6.4 Specifying the Task Payload Data Structure
- 15.6.5 Assigning Task Participants
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- 15.6.5.1 Specifying Task Approvers
- 15.6.5.2 Configuring the Single Approver Participant Type
- 15.6.5.3 Configuring the Group Vote Participant Type
- 15.6.5.4 Configuring the Management Chain Participant Type
- 15.6.5.5 Configuring the Sequential List of Approvers Participant Type
- 15.6.5.6 Configuring the FYI Assignee Participant Type
- 15.6.5.7 Configuring the External Routing Service Participant Type
- 15.6.5.8 Allowing All Participants to Invite Other Participants
- 15.6.5.9 Abruptly Completing a Condition
- 15.6.6 Escalating, Renewing, or Ending the Task
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- 15.6.6.1 Overview or Escalation and Expiration Policy
- 15.6.6.2 Never Expire Policy
- 15.6.6.3 Expire After Policy
- 15.6.6.4 Renew After Policy
- 15.6.6.5 Escalate After Policy
- 15.6.7 Specifying Participant Notification Preferences
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- 15.6.7.1 Notifying Recipients of Changes to Task Status
- 15.6.7.2 Editing the Notification Message
- 15.6.7.3 Setting Up Reminders
- 15.6.7.4 Securing Notifications, Making Messages Actionable, and Sending Attachments
- 15.6.8 Specifying Advanced Settings
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- 15.6.8.1 Specifying Escalation Rules
- 15.6.8.2 Specifying WordML Style Sheets for Attachments
- 15.6.8.3 Specifying Style Sheets for Attachments
- 15.6.8.4 Specifying Multilingual Settings
- 15.6.8.5 Overriding Default System Actions
- 15.6.8.6 Overriding Default Exception Management
- 15.6.8.7 Specifying Callback Classes on Task Status
- 15.6.8.8 Allowing Task and Routing Customization in BPEL Callbacks
- 15.6.9 Exiting the Human Task Editor and Saving Your Changes
- 15.7 Task 2: Associating the Human Task with a BPEL Process
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- 15.7.1 Associating a Human Worklist Task with a BPEL Process
- 15.7.2 Opening a Human Task Activity Already Associated with a BPEL Process
- 15.7.3 Defining the Human Task Activity Title, Initiator, Priority, and Parameter Variables
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- 15.7.3.1 Specifying the Task Title
- 15.7.3.2 Specifying the Task Initiator and Task Priority
- 15.7.3.3 Specifying Task Parameters
- 15.7.4 Defining the Human Task Activity Advanced Features
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- 15.7.4.1 Specifying a Scope Name and a Global Task Variable Name
- 15.7.4.2 Specifying a Task Owner
- 15.7.4.3 Specifying an Identification Key
- 15.7.4.4 Including the Task History of Other Human Tasks
- 15.7.4.5 Allowing Task and Routing Customizations in BPEL Callbacks
- 15.7.5 Viewing the Generated Human Task Activity
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- 15.7.5.1 BPEL Callbacks
- 15.7.5.2 Including the Task History from Other Workflows
- 15.7.6 Outcome-Based Modeling
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- 15.7.6.1 Payload Updates
- 15.7.6.2 Case Statements for Other Task Conclusions
- 15.8 Task 3: Generating the Task Display Form
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- 15.8.1 Overview of Task Display Forms
- 15.8.2 Selecting a Task Display Form
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- 15.8.2.1 Preview Release of Task Display Form Support for ADF Data Controls
- 15.8.3 Automatically Generating a Simple Task Display Form
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- 15.8.3.1 Payload File for the Autogenerated JSP
- 15.8.4 Generating a Custom Task Display Form
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- 15.8.4.1 Autogenerated JSP
- 15.8.4.2 Custom JSP
- 15.8.4.3 Default JSP
- 15.8.4.4 XSL
- 15.8.5 Deploying Task Display Forms
- 15.8.6 Creating Custom JSP Forms
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- 15.8.6.1 Adding Update Support in the Custom JSP
- 15.9 How Changes to a Workflow Appear in Worklist Application
- 15.10 Notifications from Workflow Services
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- 15.10.1 Configuring the Notification Channel
- 15.10.2 Contents of Notification
- 15.10.3 Configuring Messages in Different Languages
- 15.10.4 Sending Actionable E-mails
- 15.10.5 Sending Inbound and Outbound Attachments
- 15.10.6 Sending Inbound Comments
- 15.10.7 Reliability Support
- 15.10.8 Sending Secure Notifications
- 15.10.9 Channels Used for Notifications
- 15.10.10 Sending Reminders
- 15.11 End-to-End Workflow Examples
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- 15.11.1 Vacation Request Example
- 15.11.2 Prerequisites
- 15.11.3 Modeling the Vacation Request Process
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- 15.11.3.1 Creating the Vacation Request Process and Importing the Schema
- 15.11.3.2 Adding a Human Task to the Order Approval Process
- 15.11.3.3 Assigning Input and Output Parameters for the Human Task
- 15.11.3.4 Creating a Task Form for the Worklist
- 15.11.3.5 Modeling the Task Outcome
- 15.11.3.6 Validating, Compiling, and Deploying the Order Approval Process
- 15.11.3.7 Running the Order Approval Process
- 15.12 Workflow Services
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- 15.12.1 EJB, SOAP, and Java Support for the Workflow Services
- 15.12.2 Security Model for Services
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- 15.12.2.1 Security in SOAP Web Services
- 15.12.2.2 Security in EJBs
- 15.12.2.3 Creating Workflow Context on Behalf of a User
- 15.12.3 Task Service
- 15.12.4 Task Query Service
- 15.12.5 Identity Service
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- 15.12.5.1 Creating Users and Groups
- 15.12.5.2 Identity Service Providers
- 15.12.5.3 User and Role Properties
- 15.12.5.4 Multirealm Support
- 15.12.5.5 Authentication, Authorization, and Identity Service Providers
- 15.12.6 Notification Service
- 15.12.7 Task Metadata Service
- 15.12.8 User Metadata Service
- 15.12.9 Runtime Config Service
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- 15.12.9.1 Internationalization of Attribute Labels
- 15.13 Configuring the Assignment Service
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- 15.13.1 Dynamic Assignment Functions
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- 15.13.1.1 Implementing a Dynamic Assignment Function
- 15.13.1.2 Configuring Dynamic Assignment Functions
- 15.13.1.3 Configuring Display Names for Dynamic Assignment Functions
- 15.13.2 Dynamically Assigning Task Participants with the Assignment Service
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- 15.13.2.1 Assignment Service Overview
- 15.13.2.2 Implementing an Assignment Service
- 15.13.2.3 Example of Assignment Service Implementation
- 15.13.2.4 Deploying a Custom Assignment Service
- 15.13.3 Custom Escalation Function
- 15.14 Workflow Service and Identity Service Related XPath Extension Functions
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- 15.14.1 Deprecated Workflow Service and Identity Service Functions
- 15.15 NLS Configuration
- 15.16 Summary
- 16.1 Use Cases for the Worklist Application
- 16.2 Overview of Worklist Application Concepts
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- 16.2.1 Worklist Application User Types
- 16.2.2 Task Components
- 16.3 Features of the Worklist Application
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- 16.3.1 Using the Task Details Page
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- 16.3.1.1 Task Actions
- 16.3.1.2 Request Status
- 16.3.1.3 Header Section
- 16.3.1.4 Payload Section
- 16.3.1.5 Comments and Attachments Section
- 16.3.1.6 History Section
- 16.3.1.7 Routing
- 16.3.1.8 Requesting More Information
- 16.3.1.9 Reassignment
- 16.3.1.10 Parallel Tasks
- 16.3.1.11 Determining Action Permissions
- 16.3.2 Using Advanced Search
- 16.3.3 Viewing a Bar Chart of Task Status
- 16.3.4 Using Work Queues
- 16.3.5 Setting Preferences
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- 16.3.5.1 Vacation Preferences
- 16.3.5.2 My Rules
- 16.3.5.3 Group Rules
- 16.3.5.4 Custom Views
- 16.3.5.5 Display Preferences
- 16.3.6 Using the Administration Functions
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- 16.3.6.1 Manage Rules
- 16.3.6.2 Flex Field Mappings
- 16.3.6.3 Application Customization
- 16.3.7 Creating Reports
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- 16.3.7.1 Unattended Tasks Report
- 16.3.7.2 Tasks Priority Report
- 16.3.7.3 Tasks Cycle Time Report
- 16.3.7.4 Tasks Productivity Report
- 16.3.8 User and Group Information
- 16.4 Accessing the Worklist Application in Local Languages
- 16.5 Customizing the Worklist Application
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- 16.5.1 Worklist Application Architecture
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- 16.5.1.1 Customizing the Login Page
- 16.5.1.2 Customizing Header Information
- 16.5.1.3 Customizing the Task Details Page
- 16.5.1.4 Changing the Client-Service Binding for the Worklist Application
- 16.5.1.5 Deploying the Custom Worklist Application
- 16.5.1.6 Customizing the Worklist Application Using Preferences
- 16.5.1.7 Configuring Display Names for Task Attributes Using WorkflowLabels.properties
- 16.5.2 Controlling Access to Information and Actions for Different Users
- 16.5.3 Enabling the Worklist Application for Single Sign-On
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- 16.5.3.1 Task 1: Changing the Servlet Code
- 16.5.3.2 Task 2: Changing the Application Configuration
- 16.5.3.3 Task 3: Reviewing the File Changes
- 16.5.3.4 Task 4: Building and Deploying the Application
- 16.6 Building Clients for Workflow Services
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- 16.6.1 Packages and Classes for Building Clients
- 16.6.2 Workflow Service Client
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- 16.6.2.1 The IWorkflowServiceClient Interface
- 16.6.3 Classpaths for Java Clients
- 16.6.4 EJB References in Web Applications
- 16.6.5 Initiating a Task
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- 16.6.5.1 Creating a Task
- 16.6.5.2 Creating a Payload Element in a Task
- 16.6.5.3 Initiating a Task Programmatically
- 16.6.6 Writing a Worklist Application Using the HelpDeskUI Sample
- 16.7 Summary
- 17.1 Use Cases for Sensors
- 17.2 Overview of Sensor Concepts
- 17.3 Implementing Sensors and Sensor Actions in Oracle JDeveloper
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- 17.3.1 Configuring Sensors
- 17.3.2 Configuring Sensor Actions
- 17.3.3 Publishing to Remote Topics and Queues
- 17.3.4 Creating a Custom Data Publisher
- 17.3.5 Registering the Sensors and Sensor Actions in bpel.xml
- 17.4 Sensors and Oracle BPEL Control
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- 17.4.1 Viewing Sensor and Sensor Action Definitions
- 17.4.2 Viewing Sensor Data
- 17.5 Sensor Integration with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
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- 17.5.1 Creating a Connection to Oracle BAM Server
- 17.5.2 Creating a Sensor
- 17.5.3 Creating a BAM Sensor Action
- 17.6 Sensor Public Views
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- 17.6.1 BPM Schema
- 17.7 Sensor Actions XSD File
- 17.8 Summary
- 18.1 Business Rules and Decision Service Concepts
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- 18.1.1 Business Rules and Business Rule Engines
- 18.1.2 Decision Service
- 18.1.3 Oracle Business Rules with Oracle BPEL Process Manager
- 18.2 Decision Service Architecture
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- 18.2.1 Decision Service Components
- 18.2.2 Interaction with Other Components
- 18.2.3 Contents of Decision Service Configuration File
- 18.3 Use Cases for Integration of Business Processes and Business Rules
- 18.4 Integration of BPEL Processes with Business Rules
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- 18.4.1 Create Rule Engine Connection Wizard
- 18.4.2 Decision Service Wizard
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- 18.4.2.1 Selecting an Invocation Pattern
- 18.4.2.2 Selecting a Business Rule
- 18.4.2.3 Specifying Input and Output Facts
- 18.4.2.4 Importing Schema Files
- 18.4.3 Decide Activity
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- 18.4.3.1 Mapping Input and Output Facts to BPEL Variables
- 18.5 Methodology for Rule Set Modeling and Integration with a BPEL Process
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- 18.5.1 Recommended Methodology
- 18.5.2 Methodology One: Modeling Fact Types Based on an XML Schema
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- 18.5.2.1 Task 1: Create a Data Model for Rule Authoring
- 18.5.2.2 Task 2: Create a New Rule Repository and Dictionary in the Rule Author
- 18.5.2.3 Task 3: Import the XML Schema into the Data Model of the Rule Dictionary
- 18.5.2.4 Task 4: Create a New Rule Set and Model Rules
- 18.5.3 Methodology Two: Modeling Rules Based on Existing RL or JavaBeans Fact Types
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- 18.5.3.1 Task 1: Define a Contract between BPEL and Business Rules
- 18.5.3.2 Task 2: Create a New Data Model Using the RL Fact Types
- 18.5.3.3 Task 3: Create a New Rule Set and Rules
- 18.5.3.4 Task 4: Create the RL Function Contract
- 18.5.4 Invoking the Sample Rule Set from a BPEL Process
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- 18.5.4.1 Task 1: Create a Connection to the Rule Engine
- 18.5.4.2 Task 2: Create a BPEL Project
- 18.5.4.3 Task 3: Create a Decision Service Partner Link
- 18.5.4.4 Task 4: Create a Decide Activity
- 18.5.5 Summary of Methodology
- 18.6 Decision Service Deployment and Run Time
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- 18.6.1 Decision Service Partner Link Directory Structure
- 18.6.2 Deployment
- 18.6.3 Run Time
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- 18.6.3.1 Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console Support
- 18.6.3.2 Oracle BPEL Control Support
- 18.7 Advanced Decision Service Features
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- 18.7.1 Using WSIF Bindings
- 18.7.2 Enabling Logging of Oracle Business Rules Rule Session Events
- 18.7.3 Customizing assertXPath
- 18.8 Example of BPEL Process Integration with Business Rules
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- 18.8.1 Task 1: Update a Rule Using Oracle Business Rules Rule Author
- 18.8.2 Task 2: Create a Connection to the Business Rule Repository
- 18.8.3 Task 3: Create a BPEL Process and Import the Schema
- 18.8.4 Task 4: Create a Decision Service Partner Link
- 18.8.5 Task 5: Create a Decide Activity
- 19.1 Compiling and Deploying a BPEL Process
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- 19.1.1 Compiling and Deploying in Oracle JDeveloper
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- 19.1.1.1 Compiling Without Deploying in Oracle JDeveloper
- 19.1.2 BPEL Suitcase JAR File
- 19.1.3 Deploying to Multiple Environments with Different Configuration Values
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- 19.1.3.1 customize ant Task Example
- 19.1.3.2 customize ant Task Syntax
- 19.2 Creating and Managing a BPEL Domain
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- 19.2.1 Logging into Domains
- 19.2.2 Changing Domain Passwords
- 19.2.3 Creating a BPEL Domain
- 19.2.4 Changing Oracle BPEL Server Mode
- 19.2.5 Deploying a BPEL Suitcase to a Specific Domain
- 19.2.6 Undeploying a BPEL Process from a Specific Domain
- 19.3 Managing Processes in Oracle BPEL Control
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- 19.3.1 Dashboard Tab: Viewing Deployed, Running, and Completed Processes
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- 19.3.1.1 Viewing and Changing Domains
- 19.3.2 BPEL Processes Tab: Managing the Process Life Cycle
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- 19.3.2.1 Clearing the WSDL Cache
- 19.3.2.2 Deploying New Processes
- 19.3.2.3 Performing Manual Recovery
- 19.3.2.4 Refreshing the Alarm Table
- 19.3.2.5 Viewing the Process Logs
- 19.3.2.6 Managing the Process Life Cycle
- 19.3.3 Instances Tab: Viewing Process Instances
- 19.3.4 Activities Tab: Viewing Process Activities
- 19.4 Build and Command Line Tools
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- 19.4.1 ant
- 19.4.2 bpelc
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- 19.4.2.1 Examples of ant Tasks
- 19.4.3 schemac
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- 19.4.3.1 Examples
- 19.5 Summary
- 20.1 Overview of the BPEL Test Framework
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- 20.1.1 Test Cases Overview
- 20.1.2 Test Suites Overview
- 20.1.3 Emulations Overview
- 20.1.4 Assertions Overview
- 20.1.5 Process Code Coverage Overview
- 20.1.6 JUnit Support Overview
- 20.2 Components of a Test Suite
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- 20.2.1 Process Initiation
- 20.2.2 Emulations
- 20.2.3 Assertions
- 20.2.4 Include Files
- 20.3 Creating Test Suites in Oracle JDeveloper
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- 20.3.1 Creating Test Suites in Oracle JDeveloper
- 20.3.2 Importing Test Cases in Oracle JDeveloper
- 20.3.3 Creating Test Cases in Oracle JDeveloper
- 20.3.4 Editing Test Cases in Oracle JDeveloper
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- 20.3.4.1 Creating Emulations in Oracle JDeveloper
- 20.3.4.2 Creating Assertions in Oracle JDeveloper
- 20.3.4.3 Creating External Calls in Oracle JDeveloper
- 20.3.5 Creating a Test Case from Oracle BPEL Control
- 20.4 Deploying a Test Suite
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- 20.4.1 Deploying from Oracle JDeveloper
- 20.4.2 Deploying from an ant Task
- 20.5 Running a Test Suite and Viewing Report Results
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- 20.5.1 Running from Oracle BPEL Control
- 20.5.2 Running from an ant Task
- 20.6 Advanced Test Suite Design Features
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- 20.6.1 Setting Dynamic Values at Run Time
- 20.6.2 Asynchronous Event Emulation
- 20.6.3 Verifying External Actions
- 20.6.4 Custom Reporting
- 20.6.5 Database Views
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- 20.6.5.1 admin_list_td
- 20.6.5.2 admin_list_tdef
- 20.6.6 XML Schemas
- 20.6.7 Client APIs
- 21.1 OracleAS Portal Introduction
- 21.2 Step 1: Installing and Configuring the Required Oracle Application Server Components
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- 21.2.1 Configuring Realms (10.1.3.1.0 Only)
- 21.3 Step 2: Deploying the Portlets
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- 21.3.1 Deploying Portlets with dcmctl
- 21.3.2 Deploying Portlets with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console
- 21.4 Step 3: Registering Web Providers with OracleAS Portal
- 21.5 Step 4: Defining Portlet Parameters and Accessing Portlet Data Sources
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- 21.5.1 Defining Oracle BPEL Control Report Portlet Parameters and Accessing Portlet Data Sources
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- 21.5.1.1 Instance State
- 21.5.1.2 Instance Execution Time
- 21.5.1.3 Performance
- 21.5.1.4 Activity Sensor
- 21.5.1.5 Process Time Distribution
- 21.5.1.6 Fault Sensor
- 21.5.2 Defining Oracle BPEL Worklist Application Portlet Parameters and Accessing Portlet Data Sources
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- 21.5.2.1 Listing Portlet Customization
- 21.5.2.2 Listing Portlet View
- 21.5.2.3 Analysis Portlet Customization
- 21.5.2.4 Analysis Portlet View
- 21.6 Step 5: Mapping Portlet Parameters with Page Parameters
- 21.7 Summary
- 22.1 Creating Oracle BPEL Control Reports
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- 22.1.1 Creating Process Reports
- 22.1.2 Creating Performance Reports
- 22.1.3 Creating Activity Sensor Reports
- 22.1.4 Creating Fault Sensor Reports
- 22.1.5 Creating Process Time Distribution Reports
- 22.2 Summary
- A.1 Troubleshooting General Issues
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- A.1.1 Setting Properties for BPEL Processes to Successfully Complete and Catch Exception Errors
- A.1.2 Developer Prompt on Windows 2000
- A.1.3 Correcting Validation Errors in Complex Processes
- A.1.4 Handling Long-Running Processes
- A.1.5 Creating an Empty BPEL Process and Importing a Schema
- A.2 Troubleshooting Sensors—The Custom Data Publisher
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- A.2.1 Data Publisher Is Not Working
- A.2.2 Data Publisher Works, But Business Process Runs Slowly
- A.2.3 Caching Data in the Data Publisher Is Not Supported
- A.2.4 Unexpected Errors in the Data Publisher
- A.2.5 Data Extracted to XML Is Difficult to Work With
- A.3 Troubleshooting Oracle BPEL Worklist Application
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- A.3.1 Not Able to Log In to the Worklist Application
- A.3.2 Information Is Displayed in a Different Language
- A.3.3 Dates and Times Are Displayed Incorrectly
- A.3.4 The User Is Not Permitted to Perform an Action
- A.3.5 Expected Task Is Not Listed Under Task Titles
- A.4 Summary
- B.1 Process Activities Overview
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- B.1.1 Tabs Common to Many Activities
- B.1.2 Assign Activity
- B.1.3 Compensate Activity
- B.1.4 Decide Activity
- B.1.5 Email Activity
- B.1.6 Empty Activity
- B.1.7 Fax Activity
- B.1.8 Flow Activity
- B.1.9 FlowN Activity
- B.1.10 Human Task Activity
- B.1.11 Invoke Activity
- B.1.12 Java Embedding Activity
- B.1.13 Pager Activity
- B.1.14 Pick Activity
- B.1.15 Receive Activity
- B.1.16 Reply Activity
- B.1.17 Scope Activity
- B.1.18 Sequence Activity
- B.1.19 SMS Activity
- B.1.20 Switch Activity
- B.1.21 Terminate Activity
- B.1.22 Throw Activity
- B.1.23 Transform Activity
- B.1.24 Voice Activity
- B.1.25 Wait Activity
- B.1.26 While Activity
- B.2 Services Overview
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- B.2.1 AQ Adapter
- B.2.2 Database Adapter
- B.2.3 Decision Service
- B.2.4 EJB Web Service
- B.2.5 File Adapter
- B.2.6 FTP Adapter
- B.2.7 Java Web Service
- B.2.8 JMS Adapter
- B.2.9 MQ Adapter
- B.2.10 Oracle Applications
- B.2.11 PartnerLink
- B.3 Validation When Loading a Process Diagram
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- B.3.1 Changes Made In Oracle JDeveloper Do Not Update Automatically
- B.4 Summary
- C.1 Deployment Descriptor Preference Properties
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- C.1.1 Defining a Preference Property
- C.1.2 Updating a Preference at Run Time
- C.1.3 Getting the Value of a Preference within a BPEL Process
- C.1.4 Encrypting a Preference Value
- C.2 Deployment Descriptor Configuration Properties
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- C.2.1 Defining a Configuration Property
- C.3 Summary
- D.1 Advanced Functions
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- D.1.1 create-nodeset-from-delimited-string
- D.1.2 generate-guid
- D.1.3 lookup-dvm
- D.1.4 lookup-xml
- D.2 BPEL Extension Functions
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- D.2.1 getLinkStatus
- D.2.2 getVariableData
- D.2.3 getVariableProperty
- D.3 BPEL XPath Extension Functions
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- D.3.1 addQuotes
- D.3.2 appendToList
- D.3.3 copyList
- D.3.4 countNodes
- D.3.5 doc
- D.3.6 formatDate
- D.3.7 generateGUID
- D.3.8 getContentAsString
- D.3.9 getConversationId
- D.3.10 getCreator
- D.3.11 getCurrentDate
- D.3.12 getCurrentDateTime
- D.3.13 getCurrentTime
- D.3.14 getDomainId
- D.3.15 getElement
- D.3.16 getGroupIdsFromGroupAlias
- D.3.17 getInstanceId
- D.3.18 getNodeValue
- D.3.19 getNodes
- D.3.20 getPreference
- D.3.21 getProcessId
- D.3.22 getProcessOwnerId
- D.3.23 getProcessURL
- D.3.24 getProcessVersion
- D.3.25 getUserAliasId
- D.3.26 integer
- D.3.27 parseEscapedXML
- D.3.28 processXQuery
- D.3.29 processXSLT
- D.3.30 processXSQL
- D.3.31 readBinaryFromFile
- D.3.32 readFile
- D.3.33 writeBinaryToFile
- D.4 Database Functions
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- D.4.1 lookup-table
- D.4.2 query-database
- D.4.3 sequence-next-val
- D.5 Date Functions
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- D.5.1 add-dayTimeDuration-to-dateTime
- D.5.2 current-date
- D.5.3 current-dateTime
- D.5.4 current-time
- D.5.5 day-from-dateTime
- D.5.6 format-dateTime
- D.5.7 hours-from-dateTime
- D.5.8 implicit-timezone
- D.5.9 minutes-from-dateTime
- D.5.10 month-from-dateTime
- D.5.11 seconds-from-dateTime
- D.5.12 subtract-dayTimeDuration-from-dateTime
- D.5.13 timezone-from-dateTime
- D.5.14 year-from-dateTime
- D.6 Mathematical Functions
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- D.6.1 abs
- D.7 Identity Service Functions
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- D.7.1 getDefaultRealmName
- D.7.2 getGroupProperty
- D.7.3 getManager
- D.7.4 getReportees
- D.7.5 getSupportedRealmNames
- D.7.6 getUserProperty
- D.7.7 getUserRoles
- D.7.8 getUsersInGroup
- D.7.9 isUserInRole
- D.7.10 lookupGroup
- D.7.11 lookupUser
- D.8 Workflow Service Functions
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- D.8.1 clearTaskAssignees
- D.8.2 createWordMLDocument
- D.8.3 getNotificationProperty
- D.8.4 getNumberOfTaskApprovals
- D.8.5 getPreviousTaskApprover
- D.8.6 getTaskAttachmentByIndex
- D.8.7 getTaskAttachmentByName
- D.8.8 getTaskAttachmentContents
- D.8.9 getTaskAttachmentsCount
- D.8.10 getTaskResourceBundleString
- D.8.11 wfDynamicGroupAssign
- D.8.12 wfDynamicUserAssign
- D.9 String Functions
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- D.9.1 compare
- D.9.2 compare-ignore-case
- D.9.3 create-delimited-string
- D.9.4 ends-with
- D.9.5 format-string
- D.9.6 get-content-as-string
- D.9.7 get-localized-string
- D.9.8 index-within-string
- D.9.9 last-index-within-string
- D.9.10 left-trim
- D.9.11 lower-case
- D.9.12 matches
- D.9.13 right-trim
- D.9.14 upper-case
- D.10 Utility Functions
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- D.10.1 authenticate
- D.10.2 batchProcessActive
- D.10.3 batchProcessCompleted
- D.10.4 format
- D.10.5 genEmptyElem
- D.10.6 getChildElement
- D.10.7 getMessage
- D.10.8 listUsers
- D.10.9 max-value-among-nodeset
- D.10.10 min-value-among-nodeset
- D.10.11 search
- D.10.12 square-root
- D.10.13 translateFromNative
- D.10.14 translateToNative
- D.11 Adding a Custom XPath Function
- D.12 Summary
- E.1 Backwards Compatibility between 10.1.2 and 10.1.3.1
- E.2 Changes Between the Workflow Wizard and the Human Task Editor
- E.3 Changes to Configuration Files
- E.4 Changes to Worklist APIs
- E.5 Changes to Task Display Form Deployment
- E.6 Changes to the Oracle BPEL Worklist Application
- E.7 Changes to Oracle BPEL Control
- E.8 Migrating Workflow Definitions from 10.1.2 to 10.1.3.1