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Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
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Table of Contents
Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Where to download the software from
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Inter-process Communication
Conversations
The default conversation
Correlation
Correlation sets
Correlation when there are multiple calls
Throw and catch events
Send and receive tasks
When to use throw/catch events and send/receive tasks
Messages, signals, and errors
Messages
Signals
Errors
Invoking sub-processes
Embedded sub-processes
Multi-instance embedded sub-processes
Reusable sub-processes
Recommended sub-process style to use
Summary
2. Inter-process Communication in Practice
Communicating between processes using messages and correlation
Communication between processes inside a loop
Communicating between processes using signals
Using reusable sub-processes
Summary
3. Working with Arrays
Data Associations
Creating an empty array
Creating an array with some empty elements
Creating an initialized array
Getting elements from arrays
Setting elements in arrays
Appending elements to arrays
Joining two arrays
Removing elements from arrays
Iterating over arrays with a multi-instance embedded sub-process
Cardinality or collection
Sequential or parallel
Using a completion condition
Scope
Practice: Iterating over an array using an embedded sub-process
Summary
4. Handling Exceptions
Mechanisms for catching exceptions in BPMN
Boundary events
Event sub-processes
Exception propagation with sub-processes and peer processes
Exception propagation with embedded sub-processes
Exception propagation with sub-processes invoked with a call activity
Exception propagation with peer processes invoked with a throw event
Exception propagation with peer processes invoked with a send task
How BPM exceptions affect the SCA composite
Summary
5. Handling Exceptions in Practice
Using boundary events to implement timeouts
Using boundary events to implement the cancel message use case
Using event sub-processes
Propagating exceptions using peer processes
Summary
Index
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Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
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Authors
Mark Nelson
Tanya Williams
Reviewers
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Mark Nelson is a Consulting Solution Architect in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Architect's Team (known within the Oracle community as "the A-Team") in Oracle Development. Mark spends a significant part of his time working with Oracle BPM Suite users around the world. His other main area of technical interest currently is Continuous Integration and its application to Oracle Fusion Middleware. Mark is one of the question authors for the Oracle SOA Certification Exam. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
Tanya Williams is a Principal Solution Consultant in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Consulting team in Australia. Tanya has experience helping organizations...
