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BPEL Tutorials
Quick Start Tutorial (PDF)
This document describes how BPEL and the Oracle BPEL Process Manager facilitate development of SOA based applications by composing a set of synchronous and asynchronous services into an end-to-end BPEL process flow. It is not intended to be a complete development guide, but rather a tutorial and guided tour providing a rapid overview of many of the most commonly used features. Pointers are given throughout to additional documentation and samples and readers should also use the many other documents after going through this guided tour.
Tutorial 1: Developing a Hello World BPEL Process (PDF)
In this tutorial you will learn how to install the Oracle BPEL Designer and use it to build, deploy, and test your first BPEL process. The process is simply a synchronous “Hello World” flow. It takes a name as an input message and returns the message “Hello” followed by the name via a synchronous reply.
Tutorial 2: Invoking a synchronous Web Service (PDF)
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Oracle BPEL Designer to build, deploy, and test your second BPEL process. The process is an asynchronous flow that calls a simple service: a synchronous credit rating service. Creating this process is intended to be the first step toward building a more sophisticated application (like Oracle’s loan flow example).
Tutorial 3: Manipulating XML Documents in BPEL (PDF)
In a BPEL process, everything is XML, including the messages that are passed into and returned from the BPEL process, the messages that are exchanged with external services, and any local variables used by the flow itself. The types for all of these messages and variables are defined with XML Schema, usually in the WSDL file for the flow itself or in the WSDL files for services it invokes. Therefore, all variables in BPEL are XML documents, and any interesting BPEL process will spend a fair amount of its code manipulating those XML variables...
Tutorial 6: BPEL and User Tasks (PDF)
BPEL is a language for composing multiple services into an end-to-end business process. People and manual tasks are often an integral part of such business processes (particularly for exception handling or workflow/approval-related tasks). In this document, you will learn how to use the Oracle TaskManager service to model user interactions within a BPEL business process.
Tutorial 7: Invoking BPEL Processes through SOAP or Java
BPEL is a language for composing multiple services into an end-to-end business process. People and manual tasks are often an integral part of such business processes (particularly for exception handling or workflow/approval-related tasks). In this document, you will learn how to use the Oracle TaskManager service to model user interactions within a BPEL business process.
Using a BPEL Process in Oracle ADF
Watch this viewlet and learn how to integrate a BPEL process into an ADF (Application Development Framework) application. It will demonstrate calling a BPEL process from a JSF (Jave Server Faces) page and ADF data bindings.
ESB Services and BPEL Process design in JDeveloper
See how to create an ESB service, including using routing rules and a transformation, and then integrating it into a BPEL process.

(You can also find tutorials on integrating .Net services into an ADF application ADF tutorial page.)

BPEL TechTalk

Audio recording of Edwin Khodabakchian answering frequent BPEL questions:

  1. "Regarding EJB Integration, when you have an existing stateless session bean is it easy to integrate into a BPEL process?" (@ 3:30)
  2. "What are the best practices for debugging soap interactions and how will BPEL Process Manager help?" (@ 8:24)
  3. "How can I implement and manage dynamic partner links? What are the challenges and best practices?" (@ 12:27)
  4. "Regarding transformation, with BPEL is the "assign" activity the best way to address transformation requirements?" (@ 15:52)
  5. "What types of adapters are available, which resources can be accessed?" (@ 18:24)
  6. "What if I want to install Oracle BPEL Process Manager on an existing instance of the OC4J container?" (@ 20:07)
  7. "What are the best practices to use BPEL to call out to the Oracle Database? For stored procedures? Database tables?" (@ 21:52)
  8. "What is the plan for incorporating JDeveloper?" (@ 25:48)
  9. "What are the different types of exceptions that can be managed within BPEL? Does Oracle BPEL Process Manager do more than what's covered in the standard and how is it done?" (@ 27:20)
  10. "Can you talk to me about WS Security? When does this apply? How is it done?" (@ 31:01)

Technical Notes
BPEL-TN001: TCP Tunneling the Oracle BPEL Process Manager
How do I view the SOAP messages exchanged between a BPEL Process and a service it calls (or vice-versa)? How do I see the WS-Addressing headers used for correlation of asynchronous messages?
BPEL-TN002: Creating and Managing a BPEL Domain
What is a BPEL domain? How do I create a new domain? How to a deploy a BPEL process to a newly created domain? How do I undeploy a BPEL process from a newly created domain?
BPEL-TN003: HTTP Proxy Configuration
How do I configure the Oracle BPEL Process Manager to use an http proxy when invoking a Web service hosted outside the corporate firewall?
BPEL-TN005: Running the BPEL Designer in a Standalone Environment
Reconfigure the BPEL designer so that it can be used on a machine where the Oracle BPEL Process Manager is not installed.
BPEL-TN007: Building Resilient BPEL processes
Learn how to increase the resiliency of your BPEL processes by properly managing run-time exceptions.
BPEL-TN009: BPEL PM Oracle9i Configuration Guide
Instructions for how to configure the BPEL Process Manager engine to use Oracle9i as it persistence store
Calling a stateful web service from a BPEL process
This document walks you through the details of how you can invoke stateful web services over multiple calls in your BPEL process. Full source code is included so you can try this yourself.
Adding new Standard Views in Worklist Application
Instructions on modifying or adding new Standard Views in Worklist Application

Training Material
A combined version of all Lecture segments can be downloaded here (PDF)
Lecture 1: Hello World BPEL Process (PDF)
“How do I implement, compile, deploy and run my first BPEL Process? I would like that BPEL Process to generate and return a greeting”
Lecture 2: Invoking a Synchronous Web Service (PDF)
“How do I invoke a synchronous credit rating web service from within a BPEL process?”
Lecture 3: Invoking an Asynchronous Web Service (PDF)
“American Loan exposes a web service that can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to a couple days to process a loan application into a loan offer. How can I leverage that asynchronous loan processor service as part of my BPEL Process?”
Lecture 4: Parallel Processing (PDF)
“Given that AmericanLoan and UnitedLoan can take up to 5 days to process a loan request, is it possible to invoke those services in parallel?”
Lecture 5: Conditional Branching (PDF)
“I have received two loan offers (one from UnitedLoan and one from StarLoan). How do I select the one with the lowest rate?”
Lecture 6: Fault Handling (PDF)
“The Credit Rating service throws a {http://services.otn.com}NegativeCredit fault under certain conditions. How do I catch and manage a fault from within a BPEL process?”
Lecture 8: Invoking a BPEL Process From a JSP (PDF)
“I have implemented and deployed an asynchronous HelloWorld BPEL process. How do I initiate it from a Java/JSP application?”
Lecture 9: Events and Timeouts (PDF)
“StarLoan is supposed to call us back with a LoanOffer within an hour. What happens if it doesn’t? How can I handle this time-out within my BPEL process?”
Lecture 10: Java Embedding (PDF)
“I have a Customer Entity Bean that allows me to retrieve a SSN based on an email id. How can I invoke that bean from within my BPEL process?”
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