BPEL and VS2008 Development

I am an Microsoft developer that has developed many C# web services. I need to create a C# web service that calls into a BPEL web service. My C# web service ias hoted by IIS in windows. My question is can I develop both BPEL process and windows IIS web services on the same development machine without problems? How do I do both development enviroments on same machine?
Orgbrat

Yes you can, install IIS first, this will use port 80. make sure this is started then install SOA Suite, it will pick a differnt port to 80, it will show it at the end of the install. It will also be installed on a Oracle Application Server, not IIS.
Your machine should have at least 2GB of memory, more if you can.
You will use Visual Studio for MS development and JDev (free from Oracle Downloads OTN) for BPEL development.
cheers
James

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Hi All,
With the new year starting, one of our resolutions for 2005 is to enhance the developer experience for BPEL PM and we are looking for suggestions and help in prioritizing them. Given that some of you guys have kicked the tires, you are the best source for those suggestions. I hope that you guys will be vocal.
We are interested in the end to end experience: OTN, Download, 1 st hour, documentation, product development, console, this forum, anything else that is part of the overall experience.
If you do not like to post, please just send me an email.
Thank you!
Edwin
VP Product Development
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
[email protected]

Edwin,
I might have several suggestions as I'm sinking my teeth into the PM Server and Designer. We're considering to use the BPEL technology in the BIG way.
First of all, make it a bug-free (as much as possible). Let me describe to you what I believe is a bug or a flaky design. In the Designer, File>New>Oracle BPEL Project creates a new project with a file bpel.xml. For example, look at your CreditFlow sample. In that file there is <partnerLinkBinding name="..." <property name=wsdlLocation"> http://<host name of the WSDL host server>/....
when the partner WSDL is hosted on the localhost that <host name> in the line above is the name of my machine instead of 'localhost'. Then, <project name>.bpel validation crashes when you're in the off-line (disconnected) mode or connected via VPN gateway (since obviously you think you don't need a proxy because everything is local). But, even if it works inside the LAN I think it's a bad design; since it's generated automatically by Designer the developer doesn't have a clue what's wrog when he/she needs to debug your code. The Designer should stick there 'localhost' instead of the the name of my computer on the network.
Here how I spotted it. I generated you CreditFlow sample in the Quick Start Tutorial. I went by the book, Compiled the CreditFlow.bpel and it crashed! The book did not say it was supposed to crash. The book said everything should be honky dory. The Validator printed a message: "connection timeout...." Since I'm new to the BPEL it took me awhile to figure out and once I stick 'localhost' in the right place in bpel.xml everything worked. Again, I was running everything on localhost.
So, I think it's a bug at worst or a flaky design at second. What am I missing here?
The problem is that if my company wants to convert the Biz Analysts into BPEL modelers how could a BA figure out the solution to the problem like this? He/She would just give up and tell the Technologists (us) that this is a bad product.
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Greg
P.S. What happened to Doron Sherman (CTO) and the old Collaxa folks? He is not listed in the ORCL directory. For those who don't know BPEL Server and Designer were developed by Collaxa and ORCL bought that company last year.

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Hi,
I haven't worked much on RESTful WS, but they are usually like HTTP GET/POST method, and in that case you can leverage http binding (702.Bindings\HTTPBinding). You can marshal the return xml string in XML object.
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Thank you for reading my post
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Thank you for the link, it was good.
I want to ask something that i found confiusing.
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1. I have created BPEL which take 2 inputs and concatenate them.
2. have created a PL/SQL procedure for invoking this BPEL( working fine).
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thanks for help, but the problem is diff.
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1. I have created BPEL which take 2 inputs and concatenate them.
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Three simple steps you need to do :
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A tale of a Berkeley DB project: Success and future developements

The site http://www.electre.com is an on-line catalog of all published French books (close to 1 million of them), from the 1970’s to today, with pricing and availability information for professional users.
The entire book database and search engine was developed with Berkeley DB. The site runs relatively problem free, and owes much to the stability and quality of the Berkeley DB source code. Moreover, the software is sold as an intranet version and runs on remote configurations that are out of our direct control. And yet, we don’t get much problem reports from these remote sites.
Development started in 2002. Using Berkeley DB was my decision. It was, with hindsight, a very good decision, but it would be hypocritical to affirm I knew all along it would work out so well. It was partly a gamble, and partly a calculated risk. I am not ashamed to confess that when I finally made the decision to go with Berkeley DB, there were some key areas in the technical design I had no clue how to tackle. Needless to say, any flaws that remain in this area are due to lack of knowledge and lack of foresight on my part, not because of some flaw in Berkeley DB.
What convinced me 4 years ago to “go for it” was Sleepycat’s no-nonsense approach to support from guys like Michael Cahill, Keith Bostic, John Merrells, Dave Seglau, Michael Ubell, Liz Pennel and others. Support was sending a message to [email protected]. Replies were never more than a couple of days away (including time zone differences). There was always something comforting when you read a reply from someone who says he “owns your problem” (especially when you also saw that someone’s name in the source code <g>). The majority of support questions were asked during evaluation and product development, before even a single dime was paid to Sleepycat. (Now that we sell the product as a closed source Intranet solution, we gladly pay the required license fees, of course). The fact that the project development went so well was in no small part thanks to the competence and reliability of the people I communicated with. I never expressed my thanks, so now is as good a time as any to do so. Thanks, guys (and gals).
When Sleepycat was bought by Oracle, it was rumored that the goal was ultimately “to kill the product”. I thought that was ridiculous and an exaggeration by some paranoid people (especially from the MySQL-camp). I understand that Oracle is a big company, and that things are done differently now. Besides, how do you “kill” a product? I didn’t know until I hit my first support question “post-Sleepycat”. So now I do: you kill a product not directly, but, but by a process of what I call “incremental discouragement”. It’s a subtle, 3-pronged approach:
1) Erect bureaucratic barriers between competent people and your customers. No more [email protected], but a slow and unwieldy web site and a support procedure hiding behind numbers and requiring a 2 hour training session. I’m not sure how I’m going to motivate to management a 2 hour training session for a product we’ve been using for the past 4 years, and which I now master sufficiently to reduce my support requests to about 3 a year, and for which the only difference is a change of company name. There’s a “free” forum, but the primary motivation for it seems to be to allow users to support themselves. Yes, questions are answered on the forum… but compared to the level of support I’ve been accustomed to from the same people in the past, I can’t help noticing something has changed… and not for the better. Some questions aren’t even acknowledged, though they are read over 300 times.
2) Add useless levels of indirection: when we sell an intranet, we asked Sleepycat to mail us an invoice, which we got within the week. Now we ask Oracle the same thing: the last time we did this was on November 27 of last year, and we still waiting for someone from “the Belgian office” to contact us. The only reply we got was from someone telling us our request would be passed on: a level of indirection not exactly adding value.
3) Increase useless Information Noise: www.sleepycat.com was all about Berkeley DB and related products. Look at any page on the www.oracle.com site supposedly about Berkely DB and count the number of items and links pointing to products that have nothing to do with Berkeley DB. It’s like that famous analogy: you’re only interested in a banana, and you must take the whole gorilla.
Berkeley DB is the fire behind the electre.com site. Our customers are satisfied, so this is not going to change for this version. But this developer is now convinced to view Berkeley DB as a medium to long-term liability. The fire will be kept alive for the remainder of this electre.com version, but for future versions and other similar projects, other solutions will have to be found. These other solutions will involve a similar gamble as the one I made a few years ago with Berkeley DB. My only hope is to meet similar competence, friendliness and professionalism, but without the overhead and bureaucracy of an organization for which the product is not even part of the core business.

Vincent,
I hear the frustration and concern in your post. I'd like to assure you that we're still here doing what we've done in the past and that your business is valuable to us, don't give up yet! :)
Moving from a company of 30 people to a company of >50,000 people has been an interesting transition for us as well. I have to say that honestly, things are pretty good here inside the realm of Oracle. Of course, some things were bound to change. Oracle has processes in place to acquire and grow companies and that is their intended goal with Sleepycat's Berkeley DB products. As such, some customer facing processes have changed and our home on the internet has been incorporated into the oracle.com site. The interesting thing to me is that even within Oracle's infrastructure you, the customer, are not really much further away from our engineers and support staff than before. Your suggestions, concerns, questions and bugs go directly to us via the same people pre-acquisition for the most part, although that staff is growing. With these OTN forums you have a way to speak directly to most of the Sleepycat staff, 99% of whom are still here at Oracle nearly one year post acquisition. So, I'd argue that we've done a great job of keeping that small company feeling in one of the largest software providers around.
Our web content is 80% identical to that which was on the sleepycat.com sites. Bookmarking one or two locations within Oracle and OTN will get you straight to that information. Sure, there are other product references floating around on the same page and we hope that over time Berkeley DB products and other Oracle products complement each other when used in combination. In general, I believe that most of the web experience is identical with different style sheets and a few extra links.
Support for eval customers continues to be something we provide free of charge via these forums and in private email conversations with our staff. This is unchanged. Ownership of customer issues is much the same as well and we do still use '[email protected]' for tracking issues once opened. We agree that '[email protected]' method of communication was simple and highly effective for us and our customers. We are working with Oracle's support infrastructure to consider adopting similar methods. This is another reason Oracle purchased Sleepycat, to learn from our efficient effective operational model. This is something that is ongoing, in the mean time we still track issues behind the scenes the same way as before with the added information provided by TARs so that we fit into the overall Oracle support infrastructure.
The rumors of our early demise are highly exaggerated. Berkeley DB products are alive and well in Oracle. Just look at the releases we've made in the past 12 months.
As for our three pronged attack. ;-)
1. The distance between first contact with support and helpful information has, in some ways, increased. This is due to the Oracle infrastructure for support that manages all Oracle products. The forums are the replacement for the discussion email lists we managed at sleepycat.com. We're managing a much larger amount of traffic than in the past and most of it is done with the same Berkeley DB engineering team you've come to know and love. Maybe we need to make it more obvious when we answer a question by having a signature indicating who we are, sometimes that's not obvious. As to the particular question you posed, I don't know what happened but the same thing can happen on an email list. My apologies for the lack of a response.
2. Oracle has a huge sales force worldwide. We're only beginning to fully function within this new infrastructure. Sorry we dropped the ball on your sales inquiry, rest assured that we're interested in all commercial deals. Once connected into the Belgium office you'll have a direct relationship, as before, with a sales rep for your use of Berkeley DB.
3. I've already talked about this. Oracle has many products, we're just one of those. We have to fit within the overall site structure. For the most part I'd give us an A- or B+ for transitioning our sleepycat.com information into oracle.com and OTN.com. If you have suggestions as to how we might improve that, drop me a line I'm all ears.
In general I'd like to believe that you and other developers like you will find that our place in Oracle doesn't prevent you from choosing Berkeley DB. Certainly it is a bigger company with some additional process overhead, but hopefully not so much that it prevents you from remaining a loyal customer and someone who would recommend us to others.
regards,
-greg
Gregory Burd [email protected]
Product Manager, Berkeley DB/JE/XML Oracle Corporation

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1. The BPEL process, using database polling feature of DB Adapter, will get the records from the database.
2. Transform the message
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I am struggling on how to put the transformed message within a SOAP envelope in the BPEL process.
If anyone had similar requirements and have successfully been able to send SOAP messages from BPEL process to an external webservice, kindly let me know.
Also if there is some kind of documentation or any link in the forum that I can refer, please let me know that as well.
I am new to Webservice integration using BPEL and would really appreciate your help.
Thanks In Advance
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Hi Dharmendra,
I am trying to send a SOAP message from my BPEL process to a web service. I have a complete SOAP message in a complex variable defined in the wsdl for the partnerlink (web service). My problem is that when I invoke the partnerlink it fails even though the content shown in the BPEL console looks valid.
I have set up obtunnel to see what I am actually sending out from BPEL. You mention that BPEL creates the SOAP envelope automatically.
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<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <env:Body> <RCMR_IN000002NR01 xmlns="urn:hl7-org:v3" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd">
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Edited by: Aagaard on Oct 30, 2008 8:59 PM
Should have mentioned. I am using BPEL 10.1.3.4
Edited by: Aagaard on Oct 31, 2008 8:43 AM
I have opened a new thread for this question so as to not confuse the issue more than necessary.
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Exception occured when binding was invoked.
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Any ideas or tips please?
Edited by: 849655 on Aug 9, 2011 2:35 PM
Edited by: 849655 on Aug 9, 2011 2:36 PM

So is there any further info I can provide or anything like that? I am still no closer to solving this it appears...
This makes no sense to me. I have edited these BPELs in this manner twice before and never had problems.
I have 3 bpels. I added the new element to each of them.
BPEL1 - calls some PL SQL and also passess the elements to the next BPEL (BPEL2)
BPEL2 - passes the elements to BPEL 3
BPEL3 - Calls PL SQL in exactly the same way as BPEL1
however, where BPEL 1 is functioning fine, BPEL3 is resulting in the error above. So frustrating, because BPEL3 works exactly like BPEL1, there is no reason it shouldn't be working. The elements are the same order as the PL SQL type and procedure it is mapping to, so that isn't the problem
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FWIW - this is one of the reasons some people were raising heck when Lr4 first came out - no way to brighten shadows using the basic sliders without getting the clarification effect.. That said, Eric Chan also has informed us that Lr3's fill light had a similar mathematical algorithm backing it, and so Lr4 was not new in that regard, just improved..
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