11.1.1.5: BPEL External Routing

Question

All,
I have a requirement to have External Routing program for parallel approval to various groups by implementing IAssignmentService. The requirement is to send the parallel approval to multiple groups and then have atleast one user from each of the groups to approve the request; to complete the request.
I tried looking into the docs and the api but could not find much information about parallel approval and how to set the outcome. I had been able to assign the approval to multiple groups in parallel but don't know how to get to the exit condition. Below is the method I am using for the same:
private Participants createParticipant() {
ObjectFactory objFactory = new ObjectFactory();
Parallel parallel = objFactory.createParticipantsTypeParallel();
parallel.setCollaboration(false);
ParallelCompletionCriteriaType vote = objFactory.createParallelCompletionCriteriaType();
ParameterType defaultOutcome = objFactory.createParameterType("APPROVE");
defaultOutcome.setType("STATIC");
vote.setDefaultOutcome(defaultOutcome);
ParameterType percentageOfOutcome = objFactory.createParameterType("100");
percentageOfOutcome.setType("STATIC");
vote.setPercentageOfOutcome(percentageOfOutcome); //deprecated and doc says using getOutcomePercentage() , would it set the vote?
parallel.setVote(vote);
Resource resource4 = objFactory.createResource();
resource4.setValue("Cricket");
resource4.setIsGroup(true);
resource4.setType("STATIC");
parallel.getResourceOrRoutingSlip().add(resource4);
resource4 = objFactory.createResource();
resource4.setValue("Hockey");
resource4.setIsGroup(true);
resource4.setType("STATIC");
parallel.getResourceOrRoutingSlip().add(resource4);
Participants participants = objFactory.createParticipants();
participants.getParticipantOrSequentialParticipantOrAdhoc().add(parallel);
return participants;
}I am calling the above code from onInitiation method but it's going in loops also I am not sure about how the outcome is computed here.
Will appreciate if anyone can throw in some pointers or some documentation/guide.
Thanks,
BB

Answer 1

Did a little digging and it worked!