Oracle BPA change management

Hello,
Our customer wants to have full business process management cycle - from modeling to executing. So they want to model processes in Oracle BPA and to execute them in Oracle BPEL PM. That is why they decided to create BPEL process models in BPA, export them to BPEL files, make necessary changes in JDeveloper and deploy processes to Oracle BPEL PM.
But there is a question about change management in BPA.
Let's say, we have a BPEL process model diagram, which was exported into executable BPEL file and used in JDeveloper for development. After some time we decide to change our BPEL diagram in BPA. As I understand, there are no relationships between Oracle BPA and Jdeveloper, so if we export this updated BPEL diagram into executable than we have to make changes to the executable BPEL by ourselves?
Victor

Hi Paul,
bi-directional change management is available since BPA/JDev R11. You can mainly achieve the following:
1. Send BPMN from BPA Suite to JDev/BPEL and enriech it later there
2. Reverse engineering from an existing BPEL process into BPA Suite as BPMN
3. Send a change request over from BPA Suite to JDev/BPEL and review/accept it there
4. Send a change request over from JDev/BPEL to BPA Suite and review/accept it here.
Please send me your email address to receive details on these processes, my email address you can get out of my profile.
Best Regards
Volker

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