This course will provide each participant with a thorough understanding of the role of Business Process Execution Language and its role for modeling corporate workflows and SOA processing using Oracle BPEL Process Manager and their SOA Suite. This course will focus on the usage of business process models, the role of BPEL and BPEL4WS, JDeveloper integration, use of BPEL Designer, role of BPEL Console, product support, integration of WSDL and other XML standards, using synchronous and asynchronous flows, BPELWS partner concepts, stateful interactions, BPEL extensions, role of sensors and notifcations, insertion of human tasks, debugging through the BPEL Console, mapping elements in BPEL4WS, migration of MQ Workflows to BPEL4WS, role of SOAP faults and fault handling, use of file and database adapters.

All aspects of this class will incorporate the specific architecture of Oracle’s SOA suite to illustrate the implementation of these techniques.

Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of application development and design methodologies.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Designed for programmers, managers, project leaders, enterprise architects and other technical individuals that need to understand the modeling of business workflows.

Learning Objectives

Upon conclusion, each participant will have acquired these skills:

• Understand the role of business process modeling
• Utilizing JDeveloper BPEL Designer to create workflows
• Learn the syntax and semantics of BPEL and BPEL4WS
• Understand the relationship between BPEL and other Web services standards such as WSDL (Web services Description Language)
• Gain experience using BPEL by building a progressively complex, process-centric application
• Understand which BPEL constructs are most appropriate for different application scenarios
• Understand the role of sensors and notifications
• Utilizing human tasks and workflows
• Illustrate the role of different adapters (File, database, etc)
• Understand the role of transformation logic
• Using modeling tools to develop BPEL and BPEL4WS processes
• Depict the key concepts of BPEL4WS: partners, endpoints, activities, correlation, data handling and scope
• Illustrate element BPEL4WS mapping for files, I/O, control nodes, processes, decisions and while loops
• Understand the generated files and the role of the different files generated from our BPEL models
• Depict the role of BPEL console for executing and tracking workflows