BPEL Tutorial

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What is SOA?
What is BPEL?
Difference between SOA and BPEL
Advantages of SOA/BPEL
Download SOA Suite
Hello World/ErpSchools Tutorial in BPEL
Compile and deploy BPEL Suitcase using bplec.bat
Monitor the activities/instances/statuses in Dashboard

What is SOA?
SOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture. SOA is an architectural
approach using technology to present business processes as reusable
services. SOA is focused on the business and enables process transformation
to new levels of integration, visualization, monitoring, and optimization.SOA is
not a technology, it is a concept and a strategy for using technologies to build
business automation solutions. SOA can be achieved through web services
like BPEL.
What is BPEL?
BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language. BPEL is a technology
used to build programs in SOA architecture.
Difference between SOA and BPEL
SOA is an architecture and not a technology. BPEL is a technology to build
SOA architectural programs.
Advantages of SOA architecture and BPEL technology
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Being SOA an architectural concept rather than a technology it is

concentrated on business rather than development or coding.
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Using SOA architecture and BPEL technology you can integrate
multiple legacy systems through reusable services/objects.
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BPEL provides handshaking which means you can track what is
happening to your input. If it is successfully processed or not.
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You Can create alerts to notify about errors in processing or critical
conditions.

Download SOA Suite

Click here to download the BPEL Suite

Hello World/ErpSchools Tutorial in BPEL

Click close to close the tip

Right click on the Application and select New Application

Select Integration Tier and then BPEL in the categories and then in Items select
BPEL Process Project

Click OK. Now BPEL Project Creation Wizard will open as shown below
Enter the name: erpschools_process
Name Space: Leave it as default
Template: Synchronous BPEL Process

Click Next

Leave the default values and click Finish

Now you will see a screen like this

Now on the right side tab you can see the Assign icon in the component pallet

Select it and drag into the diagram. When you drag you will see green circles
representing where you can drop the Assign component. I will drop between Receive
Input and Reply output as shown below

Double click on the Assign_1 icon in the diagram

You will see the below screen

In General tab you can change the Name or you can leave the default
Next Click on Copy Operation
And select Create drop down as show below

Now you will see Create Copy Operation box with From and To tabs

By default both from and to types are defaulted to Variable

Now in the From Type box select the Expression

Now click on the XPath Expression Builder icon

Expression Builder screen will pop up as shown

Now in the right side tab in Advanced Functions select String Functions as shown
below

Now double click on Concat and it should copy the concat function to expression tab
on the top as shown

Now manually enter the parameters for that concat() function as shown
Enter the welcome message as shown and place the cursor immediately after the comma

In the BPEL Variables select the Clinet:Input variable and double click it. It will
automatically insert the path on the top

Click OK.

We are done with from expression now

In the right side tab select the output variable as show below

To see the detailed information for that input variable select Show Detailed Node
Information check box in the bottom

Now click OK

Click Apply and then OK

Now coding part is done. We have to deploy this process.

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prudhvi@erpschools.com
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BPEL / SOA
Prepare to deploy the process.
Start the SOA Suite
Programs >> BPEL >> Start SOA Suite

Once it is started you will see a screen like this

Now go back to JDeveloper

In the left panel you can see the Connections Navigator click on that

Now select Application Server and right click to select New Application Server
Connection

You get to see the below screen

Leave the Connection Name as it is and click Authentication tab and

Enter the username/password
By default it is oc4jadmin/welcome1

Go to next tab Connection and enter as follows.

Now go to Test tab and click Test Connection. If you get Success message you are
good to move forward if not go back and check the ports and hostname e.t.c

Click OK
If you expand the application Server in the left panel you will see the directory
structure as follows

Integration Server Connection

Now right click on Integration Server folder as shown and select New Integration
Server Connection

You can leave the Connection Name as it is and click on next tab Connection

Now select the Application Server that we created in the previous step.
Click on Test Connection tab

Click Test Connection button

Now you should see the below text

Application Server: OK
BPEL Process Manager Server: OK
ESB Server: OK
If all the three servers are OK you are good to deploy the process.
If you expand the Integration Server folder you will see the directory structure as show
below

Now preparation to deploy the process is done.

Go back to Applications Navigator in the Left Panel

Select the process , right click , select deploy , Server Connections >> Connection that
you created previously

You get a message in the bottom of the screen saying success or fail. If success
everything is good if not you can deploy through another method.
It can fail for many reasons it depends on your browser settings, windows settings, ports,
permissions e.t.c
Deploy and create BPEL Suitcase
Go to Developer Prompt
Click Programs >> BPEL >> Oracle BPEL Process Manager >> Developer Prompt

It will open a command prompt and will take you to samples directory
Cd ..
Cd bin
Now type
Bpelc.bat path of your bpel.xml file in your application folder
In the first step while creating the new application we have the path
C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_2\bpel\samples\Prudhvi\Application1
So navigate to that folder and then click the process folder here it will be
erpschools_process and then to bpel directory
Final path will be
C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_2\bpel\samples\Prudhvi\Application1\erpschools_process
\bpel\bpel.xml
Execute the below command in the developer prompt(in cmd prompt)
Bpel.bat
C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_2\bpel\samples\Prudhvi\Application1\erpschools_process\
bpel\bpel.xml

You should see the successful message as shown above.

It will also tell you where the BPEL Suitcase is created and the name of the suitcase file.
Usually the name suitcase will be appended with date and its extension is .jar
After you create the BPEL Suitcase you have to manually deploy it.
In the browser type the below url
http://localhost:8888/BPELAdmin
default username and password will be
username: oc4jadmin
password: welcome1

Once you login you will see the below screen

Click on BPEL Domains tab on the top

Now click on default BPEL Domain

It will open a new window as shown below

In the Left panel you can see all the BPEL processes you have deployed till now.
To deploy our new process click on BPEL Processes tab on the top

Click on Deploy New Process in Related Tasks

Click Browse and select the BPEL Suitcase that we created using bplec.bat previously

Now click Deploy button.

If you get a successful message as shown below your BPEL process is deployed
successfully.

Click Done.

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