Building Integration Applications

The integrated development environment in WebLogic Workshop includes a framework and tools for building WebLogic Integration applications. The topics in this section provide information about designing business processes that span applications, users, enterprise networks, and trading partners.

Topics Included in This Section

Tutorial: Building Your First Business Process

Provides a tour of the features available to design business processes for a WebLogic Workshop application by describing how to create a process that orchestrates the processing of a request for quote. Includes designing asynchronous communication with Web Service controls and Process controls, designing decision nodes, looping logic, parallel nodes, data transformations, Message Broker publish and subscription logic, and so on.

Tutorial: Building Your First Data Transformation

Introduces the basics of building a data transformation by describing how to create and test an XML-to-XML data transformation.

Guide to Building Business Processes

Describes how to build and test business processes using graphical tools. This topic includes how to design your business process logic, including designing looping constructs, decision nodes, switch nodes, interactions with clients and external resources, transactions, stateful and stateless processes, versioning business processes, and so on.

Guide to Data Transformation

Describes how to use the mapper functionality to create a data transformation graphically and how to import an existing eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) into WebLogic Workshop for data transformation.

Using Integration Controls

Describes how to use controls that make it easy to access enterprise resources, such as databases, file systems, Enterprise Java Beans, the Worklist, RosettaNet, ebXML, Trading Partner Management systems, and so on from within your application.

How Do I ...?

Provides step-by-step instructions for common tasks needed to build business processes, including creating new applications and business processes, and importing Schemas and Message Broker channel files. This topic also includes descriptions of the keyboard shortcuts and productivity accelerators you can use while building your business processes.

Java Class Reference

Provides reference information for WebLogic Integration API Javadoc for WebLogic Integration controls, business processes (JPDs), data transformation, Worklist, business calendars, WLXT, XML, and so on.

Annotations Reference

Provides reference information about WebLogic Integration-specific Workshop annotations, which are formatted like Javadoc tags.

Samples

Explains how to use samples that demonstrate WebLogic Integration functionality.

Building and Deploying Integration Applications

References information about building and deploying applications as enterprise archive (EAR) files and as exploded directories.

Building Integration Applications

Topics Included in This Section

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