Extending Expense Management Example in BPM Suite

Hi All,
I am a newbie for BPM Suite. I went through the expense management example.. Next, I would like to extend the example and integrate it with external resources like database and http server (apache tomcat will do).
For eg, Can I store the list of participants in the database and retrieve them when I launch my workspace.
I read about BPM Process API (PAPI), PBL, Fuego but I am not able to relate these. Can anyone please explain me how are they used in integration with BPM Suite ??? Next, How is BPEL Manager Used with BPM Suite ???
I tried searching internet for tutorials/articals but was not able to find anything relevant.
Kindly help...
Many Thanks,
Sophie

Here are the steps:
1. create an external source for your DB: right-click on External Resources -> New External Resource -> Type: SQL Database -> enter all necessary information on your DB (page 145 Oracle BPM StudioGuide)
2. create a module: right-click on Catalog -> New -> Module -> enter name (page 167 Oracle BPM StudioGuide)
3. catalog the external resource: right-click on the newly created Module -> Catalog Component -> SQL -> choose your ex. res.
4. create a BPMObject according to your data structure you want to store.
5. create a presentation based on this BPMObject
6. use a BPM Object Interactive Call in your screenflow to display the form (presentation).
7. implement an automatic activity (impl. type: method) and enter this SQL statement into the method (var1SF id my instance variable in the screenflow):
INSERT INTO buch (id, titel, author, preis)
VALUES (var1SF.id, var1SF.titel, var1SF.author, var1SF.preis)
Have also a look at the thread:
h4. BPM and database interaction
and consider Dan Atwood's answer (i couldn't implement it yet...) on reading data from the DB

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Edited by: 801493 on Oct 11, 2010 6:02 AM
Edited by: 801493 on Oct 11, 2010 6:03 AM

Please follow this step may this solve your problem.
please modify any thing in process "ExpenseReporting" for example any transition or any activity to place some where else or any other modification and then save that process. Then clean the project and build and deploy it.
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