Business Rules and BPEL integration

hi
can u provide me information on how to integrate Business Rules with BPEL. do provide me any documents related to this, if any.

Hi,
In the new 10.1.3 release (scheduled to hit the streets this summer) Oracle provides business rules support in the BPEL product.
Supported in 10.1.3 are Ilog Jrules as well as Oracle's own business rules engine that will be contained in the package.
More info on new features can be found in a recent web seminar for which the replay can be obtained here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/htdocs/webinars.html.
Hth, Sjoerd

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JHeadstart, Oracle Business Rules and BPEL Process Manager

Dear JHeadstart Team,
I have some questions regarding integration of JHeadstart and Oracle Business Rules and Oracle BPEL Process Manager. As a matter of fact I don't have any work expriences with these tools so my questions may not be good and precise.
1- Using a business rule engine can dramatically increase speed of development and ease of maintenance.I had a very good exprience in using JHeadstart and Headstart in the past but I wanted to know if it is possible to use Oracle Business Rules in conjunction with the JHeadstart ? If so, What steps should be taken? Is there any known issue about this integration? Does Oracle Business Rules have any interference with JHeadstart or it is only used in model layer during insert,update,delete?
2- Is it possible to develope a system based on oracle work flow engine (Oracle BPEL Process Manager) using JHeadstart ? If so, What steps should be taken and how the changes in the flow of work would by applyed in a system developed by JHeadstart. Is there any known issue about this integration?
Any help,link to documents or general guidelines would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Navid

Couple of things I would like to add, are the following.
In the context of an ADF application usage of Oracle Business Rules most likely is in the business logic layer, but mind that it does not need to be restricted to that.
Oracle Business Rules takes so called 'facts' as input, evaluates some rules based on that and change those facts or return some result. That might be checking a business rule as defined in the JHeadstart Developers Guide. But it might also return some value that is used in a navigation rule.
Think about a page flow where after page A normally page C is presentend, but in case of some situation (like a customer ordered something and you want to present some special offering based on that) you want page B presented in between (i.e. A -> B -> C). Oracle Rules could be used to determine this page flow. This would be an example of using it in the controller layer (probably in combination with using facts that come from the model layer).
Another remark that I would like to make, is that in my opinion it does not make much sense to use Oracle Rules for business rules that logically more or less are part of your data model (like end date must be on or after begin date). You typically use Oracle Rules to implement business rules that are of a volatile nature, meaning that day-to-day business may require a change of the rules. One example is the navigation case that I mentioned before. Another (typical) example would be a rule that defines when a customer is a Gold customer.
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How to aceess Business rules from BPEL, OESB and OSB ?

Hey you can use Decision Service in BPEL process. You have "Decide" activity for this. However, no idea about ESB or OSB.

Unable to integarte Oracle business rules with BPEL

hi'
I am unable to integrate Business rules with BPEL, I am using JDeveloper to do this.
I have successfully made a connection to rule repository and using decision service in synchronous BPEL process.
In the decision service wizard step 1 of 2
1.) Selected 'Execute Ruleset' in Invocation pattern
2.) Selected rules set which I have cretead before.
the problem is coming when nothing is geting displayed in the
window below for Fact name, assert name, watch fact.
please help me why Fact name, assert name, watch fact are not coming.
thanks
Yatan

Thanks Anirudh,
Do I need to make some changes in the java classes or in the XSD file which I am importing while creating new BPEL process
I am importing the same XSD file in input and output, actually I am updating the database in the BPEL process so I am taking the
input from the payload and updating the DB.
Do I need to make two different <complexType name="updatingDB"> and <complexType name="businessrules">in the XSD
if you have some example which shows the Integration of BPEL and Business rules
with Java facts please share it with me.
thanks
Yatan
Edited by: user10681871 on May 25, 2009 11:51 PM
Edited by: user10681871 on May 26, 2009 12:02 AM

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Anybody here knows the difference between Business Rules and BPM..
We can do pretty much everything with a Business Rules Engine as we would do with BPM , then in which scenario should we use BPM and in which scenario should we use Business Rules Engine?
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All,
Are there any good links where I can read about the limitations of active database features (such as constraints and triggers) and other options and alternatives to implementing business rules?
Regards

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This post may be helpful - Re: Business Rules are disappearing from forms in Hyperion Planning v 11.1.1.3
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Planning ,Business rules and Reporting Analysis Backup

Hi
Currently we have migrated our Hyperion Planning EPMA 11.1.1.2 applications from TEST to PROD on windows 2003 Server (2 boxes).Essbase Server on UNIX and Application Server is OAS.We need to take backups on daily basis for Hyperion planning, BR's ,Reporting Analysis , Financial Reporting and Essbase , Open LDAP.
But now We are taking only backups for Essbase and Open LDAP by using maxl script and Backup.bat file (Scheduled in Windows Scheduler)
As per the documentation we are going to take the backups for the Hyperion planning, BR's ,Reporting Analysis , Financial Reporting also.
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2) If doesn't have how can we move ?(not manually, Using Windows Scheduler)
3) Is there any necessity to create new Batch scripts for this action?
Could you please any one help me out.
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John
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While I am testing BPC FX Restatement pacakge, I make most use of original se-up in APSHELL, and just do some some config in related dimension and business rule. However, when I process business rule and dimenstion, one message shows that "_unexpected error in application server"._ And I still tried to run FX Restatement package, in detail log, it says "Member USD not exist." Does anyone help me figure out the reasons? I really appreciae your help.
Fred Cheng

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I am not sure if the configuration of MSMQ is fine at you side, it is better to check my how to document too as here I clearly mentioned about MSMQ steps.
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Calc script, Business rule and business rule macro

Hi John,
Can we use calc script , BR sequence and a BR macro against different databases at a single go.
In one calc script or BR sequence or BR macro itself can i calculate 2 databases

If possible could you not start every post with my name, there are lots of others helping on this forum and they provide excellent answers
Calc Scripts run against one database.
Sequences can contain multiple business rules, in the launch variables you can set the database to run against for each rule (outside of the planning application though)
Macros are called from a business rule and are run against the database the calling rule is being run against.
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John
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Creating simple Business Rules in BPEL process

Hi,
I have an environment consisting of SOA Suite 11g running on Weblogic Server. I'm using JDeveloper 11g for development.
Scenario
I have a BPEL process which starts off by polling a DB table and I then assign the input to a Recieve activity's InputVariable. I have a 'Number' column which will contain a number between 1 and 3. I then require Business Rules (BR) to be set up which read this value, and based on the number, assign a 'Name' string (which is to be the output variable from the business rules) to be used later on in BPEL process.
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I am not sure why this is, but suspect that my XSD (which is very simple anyway) or the setup steps I follow to define the link to my XSD, are wrong.
I have taken the following steps so far:
1. Create empty BPEL process
2. Set up polling adapter to poll DB table
3. Create Receive activity and assigned polled input to created variable
4. Add Business Rules component to composite and set up and create dictionary here. Also set up inputs/outputs to be in form of my XSD elements.
5. Add Business Rules component to my BPEL process and configure this to include input/output variables (*This is where error occurs*)
6. Go back to .rules component in composite to define rule and define rule
Upon deployment, I get many errors most of which pertain to "Unresolved XML element... make sure XML element +xxxxx+ is defined in one of WSDL's that are referenced by the deployment descriptor."
I have only imported a simple XSD containing two elements to this project. The other XSD is the one of my polling adapter. I've not created any input/output variables for the overall BPEL process as didn't think I was required to.
Can you please help in getting this process doing the simple activities described at the top.
I appreciate your help.
Edited by: user10248308 on 10-Mar-2010 11:49

Hi,
Create a project with BPEL composite
Now drag a business rule
Now create input variable of type ur requestelement
and output variable of type response element
Now in rules designer page take decision table
and then craete a condition (inputelement.input > 1000) and in the rule select true
now create another rule select false
Npw create an action with assertion and select the parameterized box there
now in designer page for first rule assign some value (say 500) and for second rule some value(100)
Now in bpel u have to assign a value to input var of BR
Deploy the process
If u supply 10000 u will get 500
if u supply 100 u will get 100
In the same way u can do by using If-Then
You can use facts and bucketsets according to ur requirement
Regards
PavanKumar.M
PavanKumar.M

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Hi,
My requirement is :
We have to migrate records from one DB table to another DB table.
And we have to apply Business Rules on those records while they are on there journy from source DB to target DB.
We have two choices to achieve this:-
1) Use BPEL process and Tranform Record from Source to Destination by applying Business Rules
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2) Develop ADF application and use business rules SDK to fetch the Rules and apply them to Tranfer Data from Source DB to Traget DB.
Can anybody suggest the better approach on this.
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