Chapter 10. BPMN to BPEL Round-tripping with BPA Suite and SOA Suite

The first phase of the business process lifecycle is Business Process Modeling. During process modeling, business analysts, together with business owners, analyze the business process and define the activity flow. Usually BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) is used for modeling (for BPMN specifications please refer to http://www.bpmn.org/). One of the most important advantages of using BPMN is that BPMN models can be automatically converted to BPEL, and vice versa. In that case, we do not have to build BPEL processes from scratch. We can also propagate changes from BPEL back to BPMN. We call this round-tripping. Round-tripping is very important, as it eliminates the semantic gap between IT and process models, and allows us to keep the model (BPMN) and executable code (BPEL) in sync.

In this chapter, we will get familiar with Oracle BPA (Business Process Analysis) Suite.

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We use Oracle BPA Suite version 11.1.1.2...