The basic concepts of adaptive case management in Oracle BPM Suite

Before we look at how to develop a case scenario in Oracle BPM Suite, we will have a brief look at the main concepts that will be represented in the tool.

• Cases need a BPM project in JDeveloper as a living space. We really like the fact that Oracle implemented the case construct like all main building blocks (BPEL, mediator, rules, human tasks, and so on) as an SCA component. This means that you can just drag and drop a "case" from the component palette into the composite diagram. You only can have one case per project, but that doesn't feel like a limitation. Once you have the new case in JDeveloper, you have to configure it.

• Milestones: This concept is really useful to give the user faster insight about the progress a case has made until now. In the system, a milestone is represented as a string. It is only a logical thing used to group a set of activities. But, there is no direct association between a milestone and an...