Issue in invoking the BPEL process from Oracle using a SOAP Request

Question

Hi,
We are facing an issue while invoking a deployed Bpel Process from Oracle Applications 11.5.10..
Using a concurrent program( Unix / Host program ) we are passing the input variables required for the Bpel process in the ProcessRequest tags and forming this as a SOAP message payload.
Then trying to invoke the deployed bpel process using the end point location using HTTP POST..but nothing is happening..
The bpel process is not getting invoked when i look at the Console and also checked for the Manual Recovery queue..it's not stuck there as well..
Have set the Transfer Time Out to 25 minutes using UTL_HTTP.SET_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT(1500);
Could someone please help us as soon as possible with this ..as this is critical and we are stuck at the moment.
The logic is mentioned below :
UTL_HTTP.SET_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT(1500);
UTL_HTTP.SET_DETAILED_EXCP_SUPPORT(ENABLE=>TRUE);     
soap_request:='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'||
'<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">'||
'<soap:Header/>'||
'<soap:Body xmlns:ns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpelprocessname">'||
'<ns1:bpelprocessnameProcessRequest>'||
'<ns1:CSONum>'||order_number||'</ns1:CSONum>'||
'<ns1:CreationDate>'||c_chr_cso_last_run_dte||'</ns1:CreationDate>'||
'</ns1:bpelprocessnameProcessRequest>'||
'</soap:Body>'||
'</soap:Envelope>';          
http_req:= utl_http.begin_request
('http://bpel_server ip:port/orabpel/domain_name/bpelprocessname/1.0' , 'POST', 'HTTP/1.1'
utl_http.set_header(http_req, 'Content-Type', 'text/xml') ;
utl_http.set_header(http_req, 'Content-Length', length(soap_request)) ;
utl_http.set_header(http_req, 'SOAPAction', 'process');
utl_http.write_text(http_req, soap_request) ;
http_resp:= utl_http.get_response(http_req) ;
utl_http.read_text(http_resp, soap_respond) ;
utl_http.end_response(http_resp) ;
dbms_output.put_line(soap_respond);
Thanks

Answer 1

check if your soap envelope is correct,check my below procedure which is working fine for me
procedure xxxxx_BPEL_SCHEDULER
IS
soap_request varchar2(30000);
soap_respond varchar2(30000);
http_req utl_http.req;
http_resp utl_http.resp;
launch_url varchar2(240) ;
begin
soap_request:='<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:add="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/addressing" xmlns:star="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xxxxx_BPEL_SCHEDULER">
<soapenv:Header>
<add:MessageID>?</add:MessageID>
<add:ReplyTo>
<add:Address>?</add:Address>
<!--Optional:-->
<add:ReferenceProperties>
<!--You may enter ANY elements at this point-->
</add:ReferenceProperties>
<!--Optional:-->
<add:PortType>?</add:PortType>
<!--Optional:-->
<add:ServiceName PortName="?">?</add:ServiceName>
<!--You may enter ANY elements at this point-->
</add:ReplyTo>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<star:STARS_BPEL_SCHEDULERProcessRequest>
<star:SCHEDULER_PARAM1>?</star:SCHEDULER_PARAM1>
<star:SCHEDULER_PARAM2>?</star:SCHEDULER_PARAM2>
<star:SCHEDULER_PARAM3>?</star:SCHEDULER_PARAM3>
<star:SCHEDULER_PARAM4>?</star:SCHEDULER_PARAM4>
<star:SCHEDULER_PARAM5>?</star:SCHEDULER_PARAM5>
</star:STARS_BPEL_SCHEDULERProcessRequest>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>';
http_req:= utl_http.begin_request('http://xxxxxx.com:16000/orabpel/default/xxxx_BPEL_SCHEDULER/1.0 '
,'POST',
'HTTP/1.1'
utl_http.set_header(http_req, 'Content-Type', 'text/xml') ;
utl_http.set_header(http_req, 'Content-Length', length(soap_request)) ;
utl_http.set_header(http_req, 'SOAPAction', 'initiate');
utl_http.write_text(http_req, soap_request) ;
http_resp:= utl_http.get_response(http_req) ;
utl_http.read_text(http_resp, soap_respond) ;
utl_http.end_response(http_resp) ;
dbms_output.put_line(soap_respond);
END;