Oracle Content Services + BPEL for Human Workflow

Greetings,
I'm new to Oracle Collaboration Suite and BPEL. I'm starting to work with this technologies.
My goal is to develop some custom human workflow using Oracle Content Services 10.1.2.3.0 and BPEL.
Regarding software versions, some doubts arise ... I'm using Collaboration Suite 10.1.2.
- Which version of SOA Suite (10.1.2 or 10.1.3.1) and BPEL are recomended to work with content services 10.1.2.3.0 ?
Thanks,

The certified version for Content DB/Content Services 10.1.2.3 is 10.1.2 of BPEL.
Ravikiran

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