Chapter 6. Entity Variables, Master and Detail Processes, Security, and Business Events in BPEL

In this chapter, we will continue the discussion of the advanced BPEL features provided by the Oracle SOA Suite 11g PS2. We will discuss the Oracle's extension to standard BPEL variables Entity variables. As it is a very important feature, we will also show how to secure SOA Composite applications by attaching security policies. Finally, we will overview two new BPEL extensions that Oracle introduced in SOA Suite 11g the support for Maser-Detail processes and the ability to publish and subscribe to business events from a BPEL process. We will demonstrate the use of presented features on the asynchronous TravelApproval BPEL process that we have already developed in Chapter 2.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following:

• Entity variables

• Master and Detail processes

• Securing SOA Composite applications

• Using Business Events in BPEL

Entity variables

Support for entity variables is an Oracle extension that...