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WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g

You're reading from   WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g Define, model, implement, and monitor real-world BPEL business processes with SOA powered BPM.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197948
Length 616 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g
Credits
1. Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
2. Preface
1. Introduction to BPEL and SOA FREE CHAPTER 2. Service Composition with BPEL 3. Advanced BPEL 4. Using BPEL with Oracle SOA Suite 11g 5. BPEL Extensions, Dynamic Parallel Flow, Dynamic Partner Links, Notification Service, Java Embedding, and Fault Management Framework 6. Entity Variables, Master and Detail Processes, Security, and Business Events in BPEL 7. Human Interactions in BPEL 8. Monitoring BPEL Processes with BAM 9. BPEL with Oracle Service Bus and Service Registry 10. BPMN to BPEL Round-tripping with BPA Suite and SOA Suite 11. Integrating BPEL with BPMN using BPM Suite

Human interactions in business processes


The main objective of BPEL has been to standardize the process automation. BPEL business processes make use of services and externalize their functionality as services. BPEL processes are defined as a collection of activities through which services are invoked. BPEL does not make a distinction between services provided by applications and other interactions, such as human interactions, which are particularly important. Real-world business processes namely often integrate not only systems and services, but also humans.

Human interactions in business processes can be very simple, such as approval of certain tasks or decisions, or complex, such as delegation, renewal, escalation, nomination, chained execution, and so on. Human interactions are not limited to approvals and can include data entries, process monitoring and management, process initiation, exception handling, and so on.

Task approval is the simplest and probably the most common human interaction...

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