Building ProcessServices-OrderHandling

Now by following the same detailed steps, let us also build the other core and yet very important order handling business process. As explained in the previous chapter, the purpose of this component is to accept the configured customers orders for products and deal with activities related to the fulfillment of the order including product availability, credit verification, order issuance, shipment management, processing the payments, and finally through its lifecycle, provide order status and tracking details. This will be implemented as a long-running business process (BPEL) since the process will have several human tasks along its path and will have to wait for responses for certain activities for an extended period of time.

Note

Since we have explained in the earlier chapter and also in this chapter how to work with the WID business process editor, we will not delve into step-by-step details of how we would build this process like we did with the earlier...