Custom JCA Adapter integration with BPEL

The stock FTP Adapter provided with BPEL does not have a feature I require, so I am creating a custom JCA FTP adapter that does only one thing: when it is invoked, it polls a directory for any existing files, and then returns the number of files in that directory.
The Adapter Developer Cookbook ( http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/integration/adapters/pdf/Adapter%20Development%20cookbook.pdf ) is about as clear as mud, and hasn't been updated for 10.1.3.
Are there any other resources that explain how you go from having your .java source files for your JCA adapter to having a working custom adapter in BPEL?

Hello Tlwi,
I guess you already figured out of writing custom JCA adapter, do you mind sharing your thoughs or document you may have. I tried to follow the cookbook, but was really looking for sample template code which I can change to make my own adapter.
Thanks,
Chintan

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Hi all,
Where can I find documentation or reference regarding integration of third party adapter with SOA suite?
There is an option of Third Party Adapter in SOA project of JDeveloper. When I drag it onto the composite.xml file, a window comes up asking for wsdl, jca files, etc. So I would like to know if there is any example or tutorial on how to integrate a third party adapter with SOA suite. Thanks.
Regards,
K.Hein

Thanks Anuj!
It seems like a new way of integrating JCA adapter to SOA suite.
Actually, I was only aware of integrating as a third party adapter as mentioned in this article (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/luttikhuizen-adapters-091679.html) which require wsdl and jca files.
Are there any difference between those two approaches? Which would be the recommended approach for JCA adapter integration with SOA? Thanks again for your informative replies.
Regards,
Kyi Hein
Edited by: K Hein on Jan 18, 2011 12:30 AM

Custom worklist application integration with BPEL cluster

Hi all,
I've setup a BPEL cluster using the Enterprise installation guide for 10.1.3.3.0. Currently we have a custom worklist application which is works when deployed on an installation SOA suite (10.1.3.1.0). The integration of claiming or setting an outcome works fine. We use the remote EJB to integrate with the workflow services.
However when testing the application on a cluster, we are getting the following log message in the log file for the custom application:
Questions:
1) What should be the value of the host name in the server URL since in a cluster a remote HTTP server. The HTTP server uses a virtual URL via the loadbalancer.
2) What should be the port number? Should it be the opmn request port from the $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/conf/opmn.xml
Anything else that i'm missing, please let me knoe.
Thanks in advance.
Log message:
08/03/31 23:11:05 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
08/03/31 23:11:05 Caused by: ORABPEL-30509
Error in invoking task query service.
A client side error occured in invoking the task query service.
Please check the exception error stack to identify the error. Contact oracle support if error is not fixable.
08/03/31 23:11:05 at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.query.client.TaskQueryServiceRemoteClient.authenticate(TaskQueryServiceRemoteClient.java:118)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at ca.bell.rcss.services.taskmanagement.client.RemoteTaskServiceClient.getWorkflowContext(Unknown Source)
08/03/31 23:11:05 ... 38 more
08/03/31 23:11:05 Caused by: java.rmi.UnmarshalException: Error deserializing return-value: java.io.InvalidClassException: oracle.bpel.services.workflow.verification.impl.WorkflowContext; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 6104875137687627481, local class serialVersionUID = 4086410548907188559
08/03/31 23:11:05 at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMICall.EXCEPTION_ORIGINATES_FROM_THE_REMOTE_SERVER(RMICall.java:109)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMICall.throwRecordedException(RMICall.java:125)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIClientConnection.obtainRemoteMethodResponse(RMIClientConnection.java:517)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIClientConnection.invokeMethod(RMIClientConnection.java:461)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at com.evermind.server.rmi.RemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:63)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at com.evermind.server.rmi.RecoverableRemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RecoverableRemoteInvocationHandler.java:28)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at com.evermind.server.ejb.StatelessSessionRemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(StatelessSessionRemoteInvocationHandler.java:43)
08/03/31 23:11:05 at __Proxy1.authenticate(Unknown Source)

Some more information:
1) The integration from the integration/worklistapp works fine for the custom workflows.
2) I've tried using both the machine name and the http server name in the server url.
3) Snapshot of the wf_client_config.xml:
<servicesClientConfigurations xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/services/client">
<ejb>
<serverURL>opmn:ormi://bangrcssdevsoa.sapient.com:6004:OC4J_SOA/hw_services</serverURL> 
<user>oc4jadmin</user>
<password>iasadmin1</password>
<initialContextFactory>oracle.j2ee.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory</initialContextFactory>
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Custom JCA Adapter / Application Error - Message.setErrorInfo() ??

Hi All,
I was looking for how to create a sensible Application Error in a custom JCA adapter and was excited to find the following page in the PCK info on Adapter Development:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3c/53d6409ff68631e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
The part of interest being:

The following methods are available to enable you to read error information in the form of an ErrorInfo object from the message, or to set the error information in a message.
Message.getErrorInfo()
Message.setErrorInfo()
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Many thanks,
Chris

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OR here is the direct link for the SP19 (latest) of <a href="https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~swdc/012002523100009492712006D/SAPXIAFC19P_4-20000272.sca?_ACTION=DL_DIRECT">SAPXIAFC19P_4-20000272.sca</a>
Within this is aii_af_lib.sda which has the jars. You can use winzip or winrar to open .sca, .sda files.
Regards,
Jin

ADF Integration with BPEL

Hello,
I am new to BPEL. I am working on a sample .
I am working on ADF Integration with BPEL process.
I have an ADF Screen displaying data from an EMPLOYEE table in HR Schema . It has a button called "Update". I need to call a synchronous BPEL process on click of "Update" . This BPEL process will take the selected employee information as an XML input and update the last name to the first name as the response.
I have some doubts in that :
1. How to pass an XML Schema as input parameter to a BPEL process ? Can you please let me know some sample applications ?
2. I am creating a web proxy for the BPEL WSDL (created above) and my "Update" button is binded to a method which is calling the BPEL process.
How can i pass my XML input as the argument of the method to invoke the BPEL process ?
Thanks
Nutan

When using a web service proxy, you need to pass the data as an object, which' structure is defined in the web service proxy wrapper classes.
When you've defined a data control for your bpel process, you can just drag and drop the 'initiate'/'execute', your operation and bind this to the update-button.
When working with the proxy client, you need to populate your java class objects with the employee-object, this can be done in a backing bean or managed bean in your adf faces application.
For more information you can always have a look at my blog where I've provided an explanation about the different possibilities of interfacing adf with SOA.
Kind regards,
Nathalie

Problem Creating Partner Link for Adapter Integrating with Tuxedo using JCA

Hi All,
This is the first time that I am working on integration tools. I will explain in brief the problem.
There will be a legacy system (Tuxedo) running which connect to legacy database for requests. I am able to connect to that legacy system using Attunity Studio for getting the response back. Which is working fine.
Now I want that to integrate with BPEL PM 10.1.2 using JCA. For this I followed this URL (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/oc4j/904/how_to/oc4j-jca-tux/onjava-jca.html). What happens here is, a simple servlet invokes a Session Bean that interacts the Attunity Server using the JCA. For that I am using oc4j container of BPEL PM 10.1.2. I could able to work it fine.
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Am I missed any important configuration at BPEL PM end.
For doing this a followed the "tutorial 2" @ http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/integration/adapters/dev_support.html
In exact way, above provided tutorial 2 PDF, I failed at step "Configuring a BPEL Service to invoke the above Adapter Service" on page 11.
Your help is highly appreciated
Thanks
Venkata

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JCA Adapter matchManagedConnection and BPEL

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PC
Edited by: user770775 on May 3, 2010 4:02 AM

Hi,
Goto the URL:
http://abhishek-soablog.blogspot.com
See the entry of September 2007. It will be helpful for all the begineers.
Cheers,
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JCA Adapter Postprocessing with OSB

Hi,
I am using JCA file adapter with OSB to generate flatfile output from xml (nxsd). I would like to know if it is possible to use JCA adapter post processing with OSB. (JCA pipeline and valves). Please let me know if you have tried this.
Thank you
Matt

Pre and post processing is not supporting in JCA Adapter for File/FTP certified on OSB. Check section 25.2.2.3 Oracle JCA Adapters for Files/FTP Limitations in below link.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/dev.1111/e15866/jca.htm#OSBDV910
However, according to below link it does work nonetheless. I havnt tried it, may be you can try it out as given in the link below and let us know.
Jca adapter Valves in OSB
Edited by: AbhishekJ on Feb 26, 2013 10:26 PM

Siebel new LDAP adapter integration with BI Publisher

Hi All!!
We have configured our Siebel (8.1.1.3) security adapter with LDAP. BI Publisher is using Siebel security model.
We had to clone our AOM (fins_esn which is using the security adapter LDAP) to finsxx_esn because we are migrating the AD 2000 to 2008 (we are also changing the domain). The roll out will last 2 month, users will be migrated by branch, it wont be a big bang.
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On a standalone environment report generation is working. But for a distributed environment (1 AOM, 1 NAOM, 1 Web Server) is not working.
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Regards

We actually ran into a similar problem where I work. I created a support web ticket for our issue and the response is that BIP 11G is not supported for integration with Siebel 8.1, or any other version for that matter. Oracle is currently working on a fix to integrated the latest version of Siebel with BIP.
There advice to me was to downgrade to BIP 10G for the time being.

Problem getting custom workflow to work with BPEL Worklist

I am currently working through the DocumentReviewWorklow custom workflow example in the Oracle Content Services 10g Custom Workflows document and cannot get the workflow to prompt approvers through the BPEL Worklist application that an action must be taken.
When I run the workflow, the process gets to the point of calling the TaskActionHandler and the approver is told that a process is pending their approval in the Content Services Console.
The following appears in the BPEL Process Manager when I Audit the workflow:
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Thanks bnainani, you solved my problem!
Despite the fact that the approver's username is in the Oracle Collabortion Suite OID as all lower case letters (and you can still login to worklist with lower case letters), you were right in saying that you have to use all upper case letters when logging into the worklist application in order to see the pending tasks.
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Anand

Thanks Bala, I have created a new service for the custom form. Which iview should i use to display the form.
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SIbel webservice integration with BPEL

Hi,
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location="http://10.24.5.16/callcenter_enu/start.swe?SWEExtSource=WebService&SWEExtCmd=Execute&UserName=sadmin&Password=sadmin"
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error from BPEL Console.
Would anybody update what need to done or changed?

I've seen this before. The key part is "Not a valid SOAP Content-Type: text/html". Basically Siebel is throwing up an HTML error screen because something went wrong with the service invocation. BPEL sees this and doesn't know what to do with because it's not SOAP/XML.
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SAP integration with BPEL

Hi,
is it possible to call BPEL webservice(HTTP call) using SAP? I am using oracle soa suite 11g. Please suggest me on this as we have one requirement in which we have intergration between SAP & BPEL. Before starting analysis i would like to know whether SAP can call BPEL webservice over HTTP.
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Hi,
I have set following property in my ra.xml. But still it's showing error.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<display-name>IWAFJCA10</display-name>
<vendor-name>IWAY Software</vendor-name>
<spec-version>1.0</spec-version>
<eis-type>IWAF</eis-type>
<version>1.0</version>
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<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value></config-property-value>
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<config-property>
<config-property-name>Config</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value></config-property-value>
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<config-property-name>IWayHome</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value>D:\Oracle\ora11g\fmw11gHome\Oracle_SOA1\soa\thirdparty\ApplicationAdapters</config-property-value>
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<config-property>
<config-property-name>IWayConfig</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value>TestConf</config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>IWayRepoDriver</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value></config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>IWayRepoURL</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value></config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>IWayRepoUser</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value></config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>IWayRepoPassword</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value></config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>LogLevel</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value>DEBUG</config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>LogSize</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.Integer</config-property-type>
<config-property-value>100000</config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>LogCount</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.Integer</config-property-type>
<config-property-value>10</config-property-value>
</config-property>
<authentication-mechanism>
<authentication-mechanism-type>BasicPassword</authentication-mechanism-type>
<credential-interface>javax.resource.spi.security.PasswordCredential</credential-interface>
</authentication-mechanism>
<reauthentication-support>true</reauthentication-support>
</resourceadapter>
</connector>
Here i would like to clarify few things.
1) I have used Jdk 1.6 which was instaleed automatically when i installed oracle soa suite.
2) I have following environment variables
CLASS_PATH = D:\Oracle\ora11g\fmw11gHome\jdk160_14_R27.6.5-32\lib
JAVA_HOME = D:\Oracle\ora11g\fmw11gHome\jdk160_14_R27.6.5-32
ORACLE_HOME = D:\Oracle\ora11g\fmw11gHome\Oracle_SOA1
3) After installing Oracle Thirdparty Adaptor, i have used following configuration
selceted JCA
inside that i have given name as TestConf & given path as D:\Oracle\ora11g\fmw11gHome\Oracle_SOA1\soa\thirdparty\ApplicationAdapters
But when click on Adaptor folder it's not sowing any adaptor like SAP, PeopleSoft, JdEdwards, Siebel.
4) Below configuration is right or wrong
<config-property>
<config-property-name>IWayHome</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value>D:\Oracle\ora11g\fmw11gHome\Oracle_SOA1\soa\thirdparty\ApplicationAdapters</config-property-value>
</config-property>
<config-property>
<config-property-name>IWayConfig</config-property-name>
<config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
<config-property-value>TestConf</config-property-value>
</config-property>
-- TestConf is a name of Folder which i created after installing oracle thirdparty adaptor
5) During installation of oracle thirdparty adaptor, i see that in oracle document installation size is showing 59.4 MB but in my installation it's showing 49.2 MB
thanks in advance.
Regards,
Amit Patel

Integrating Microsoft office 2007/2010 with BPEL

Hi All,
Having a requirement that Microsoft office 2007/10 needs to be integrated with BPEL.
Kindly provide some useful suggestion.
If any documents available,please provide the link as well.
Thanks in advance

Hello,
Based on this link:
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that I copied for you:
Desktop System Platforms      addon 2005 SP1 2005 B      2007 A
Microsoft® Office 2000 SP3
- Standard & Professional
Edition
Microsoft® Office XP SP2
- Professional Edition                                           X               X
Microsoft® Office 2003 SP1
- Standard & Professional Edition                          X                  X
Microsoft® Office 2007
- Standard & Professional Edition             X(1)      X               X (2)
(1) XL Reporter 2005 does support Microsoft® Office 2007 as of XL Reporter 2005 SP01 PL29.
(2) XL Reporter 2007 currently does not support Microsoft® Office 2007. Planned to be supported in Q3/2007.
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Use a JCA 1.5 Adapter with BPEL

We have a JCA 1.5 adapter working with OC4J 10.1.3. Has someone an example how to use a JCA 1.5 adapter with the WSIF JCA binding in BPEL ?

Hi Manfred,
If you download the Oracle BPEL Process Manager preview on OTN, it contains 4 tutorial directories
 121.FileAdapter
 122.DBAdapter
 123.JmsAdapter
 124.AQAdapter
which demonstrates how to define a JCA interaction (or activation) using WSDL (based on WSIF).
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 <jca:address adapterInstanceJndi="eis/FileAdapter"/>
The JCA interaction properties are captured in the WSDL Binding Operation element, for example (inbound)
<binding name="Read_binding" type="tns:Read_ptt">
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Hope this helps.
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