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Opening a BPMN process from Oracle BPA Suite

Some organisations use Oracle BPA Suite (which is based on ARIS) to model their organisation’s business processes from the highest level (strategy) down to the operational process level.  Such organisations will often follow the ARIS methodology, or some customised version … Continue reading

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Installing BPM for Developers

If you are going to be doing development for Oracle BPM Suite 11g, you may want to install a copy of BPM on your own machine so that you can do some unit testing as you build components and composites. … Continue reading

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Using the Organisation Chart component

In a previous post, we built a component that displays an organisation chart using the ADF Hierarachy Viewer.  In this post, we look at how to use that component. The organization chart provides a hierarchy view for members in an … Continue reading

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Building an interactive Organisation Chart using the ADF Hierarchy Viewer component

Introduction The ADF Hierarchy Viewer component provides a highly interactive way to visualise and interact with a set of data which contains relationships.  In this post, we will use it to build an organisation chart which allows users to navigate … Continue reading

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Consuming E-Business Suite web services using Oracle Service Bus, or Using Oracle Service Bus with OWSM Policies to call WS-Security protected services

This post demonstrates how to expose an E-Business Suite interface as a web service, in this case the PL/SQL API for getting a price for a product. Once you have exposed a service, you are probably going to want to … Continue reading

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Deploying to WebLogic Server on Amazon EC2 from JDeveloper

Sometimes, when running WebLogic Server on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, you may find that you are unable to deploy from your local JDeveloper to your WebLogic Server instance. Andrew Rosson has written a helpful post (here) that provides a simple … Continue reading

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Purging old instance data from SOA/BPM 11g

When you are running a lot of instances of your composites through SOA/BPM 11g in your testing/development environment, you will start to fill up the available space in your database with the logging and auditing information for these instances.  From … Continue reading

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Iterating/traversing arrays in BPM

Update: See this post for an updated example. Recently, I was working with a customer who has a requirement to create an arbitrary number of human tasks, based on the cardinality of an input data structure (array).  A bit of … Continue reading

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End-to-end installation of WebCenter and BPM 11g (64-bit)

In this post we will present a complete end-to-end installation and configuration of Oracle BPM 11.1.1.3, including Oracle WebCenter 11.1.1.3 for the Process Portal, Spaces and Composer features, on the Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit operating system, with Oracle Database … Continue reading

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New “Oracle Now” iPhone application

The team that run the oracle.com website have just released a new iPhone application that brings you the latest news, events and blog posts.  You can get it free by searching for Oracle Now on the App Store. If you … Continue reading

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