Technical Articles on Oracle BPM you might find useful

A friend pointed me to http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bpm/obpm_articles.html on OTN. It currently has these articles:
Tuning Oracle BPM Directory Services
Oracle BPM Clustering Tips and Tricks
Oracle BPM Engine Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks
Oracle BPM PAPI Instance Cache Explained
Oracle BPM Single Sign On Configuration
Oracle BPM & Web Services Integration
Oracle BPM Enterprise Setups explained
Migrating ALBPM 5.7 to OBPM 10gR3

ADDM is just a sophisticated software module.
It does not use any hard-to-understand, magical and mathematical tricks but sticks to collected information(AWR) and some proven best practices.
So, i think it's no harm for you to consult ADDM report.
Every best practice has weakness, it can't deal every aspect of your DBMS things.
But, it's good start point and does not make stupid mistakes unlike human beings always do.
Another thing to note is that ADDM is a very large module and connected with AWR, Tuning Avisors, wait events, Advisories, blah blah blah~
You're not using ADDM correctly if you have no good concepts and experiences on these.

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Technical Document for Oracle BPM 10gR3

Hi everybody,
Is there any technical document for oracle bpm 10gR3
Thanks for your attention

Hi,
What do you mean by technical document???
You can get the details of coding in studio and managing enterprise in 10.3 documnetation
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E1315401/bpm/docs65/index.html_
HTH,
Charan

Oracle BPM Ant tasks with Oracle BPM Studio cant find jar

Hello,
There is this documentation
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13154_01/bpm/docs65/anttasks/index.html
which states how to run Ant tasks to do different tasks on Oracle BPM. In EVERY example in the doc and the INTERNET there is this line in build.xml
<project name="OracleBPMExample" xmlns:fuego="antlib:fuego.tools.ant.enterprise">
Now, could anyone PLEASE tell me where to find fuego.tools.ant.enterprise. Ive searched every jar in my installation, and couldnt find such package. From what Ive found out it should be something like fuego-antlib.jar but while it is well known and well discussed it is NOT AVALIABLE ANYWHERE.
please, help. Im using Oracle BPM 10.3.2
regards,
Pawel

You are right Mike... The ant tasks help you do process admin stuff... so that in the Enterprise environment, you can script it all, and not require manual deployments and such.
Just download 10g Enterprise.... the library will be in there...
HTH

Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 simulation using real data?

Does anybody know if it is possible to "record" usage of a real business process model and use it as simulation data?
Thanks for your time!

I have exactly the same question from a prospect: They love the simulation feature in BPM 11g, and they are bought into the continuous improvement aspect of BPM. Now they want to understand how to put the two together and their question is whether and how is it possible to take actual process metrics and use those in a simulation. Is this possible? Thanks.

Oracle BPM Process Data mart

I am required to create audit reports on BPM workflows.
I am new to thid & need some guidance on configuring BPM Process Data mart. What are the pre-requisites for configuring it & what are the steps to do it.
Also, need some inputs on BAM database. What is the frequency of data upload. Is it data update or insert in BAM.

Hi,
You might want to check out the Administration and Configuration Guides on http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13154_01/bpm/docs65/index.html.
I suspect you might find the BAM and Data Mart portions of this documentation a bit terse, so I've added the steps below that provides more detail. I wrote this for ALBPM 6.0, but believe it will still work for Oracle BPM 10g. It was created from an earlier ALBPM 5.7 document Support wrote called "ALBPM 5_7 Configuring and Troubleshooting the BAM and DataMart Updater.pdf.
You can define how often you want the contents in both databases updated (actually inserted) and how long you want to persist the contents of the BAM database during the configuration.
Here's the contents of the document:
1. Introduction
The use of BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) and Data Mart (or Warehouse) information is becoming more and more widespread in today’s BPM project implementations for the obvious benefits they bring to the management and tuning of processes.
BAM is basically composed by a collection of measurements of current processes load and execution times. This gives us an idea of how the business is doing at this moment (in a pseudo real-time fashion).
Data Mart, on the other hand, is a historical view of the processes load and execution times. And this gives us an idea of how the business has developed since the moment the projects have been put in place.
In this document we are not going to describe exhaustively all configuration aspects of the BAM and Data Mart Updater, but rather we will quickly move from one configuration step to another paying more attention to subjects that have presented some difficulties in real-life projects.
2. Creating the Service Endpoints
The databases for BAM and for Data Mart first have to be defined in the External Resources section of the BPM Process Administrator.
In this following example the service endpoint ‘BAMJ2EEWL’ is being defined. This definition is going to be used later as BAM storage. At this point nothing is created.
Add an External Resource with the name ‘BAMJ2EEWL’ and, as we use Oracle, select the Oracle driver, then click <Next>:
On the following screen, specify:
·     the hostname – here I have used ‘localhost’ as I am just setting this up to work on my laptop
·     the port for the Oracle service
·     the SID – here I have use Oracle Express so the SID is ‘XE’
·     the new user to create / use in Oracle for this database – here I have specified ‘BPMBAM’. This user, and its database, will be created later
·     the password for the user
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click <Save>.
In addition to a standard JDBC connection that is going to be used by the Updater Service, a remote JDBC configuration needs to be added as the Engine runs in a WebLogic J2EE container. This Data Source is needed to grant the Engine access over BAM tables thru the J2EE Connection Pool instead of thru a dedicated JDBC. The following is an example of how to set this up.
Add an External Resource with the name ‘BAMremote’ and select the Oracle driver, then click <Next>
On the following screen, specify:
·     the Lookup Name that will be used subsequently in WebLogic - here I have given it the name ‘XAbamDS’
Then click <Save>.
In the next example the definition ‘DWHJ2EEWL’ is created to be used later as Data Mart storage. If you are not going to use a Data Mart storage you can skip this step.
Add an External Resource with the name ‘DWHJ2EEWL’ and select the Oracle driver, then click <Next>:
On the following screen, specify:
·     the hostname – here I have used ‘localhost’ as I am just setting this up to work on my laptop
·     the port for the Oracle service
·     the SID – here I have use Oracle Express so the SID is ‘XE’
·     the new user to create / use in Oracle for this database – here I have specified ‘BPMDWH’. This user, and its database, will be created later
·     the password for the user
3. Configuring BAM Updater Service
Once the service endpoint has been created the next step is to enable the BAM update, select the service endpoint to be used as BAM storage and configure update frequency and others. Here the “Updater Database Configuration” is the standard JDBC we configured earlier and the “Runtime Database Configuration” is the Remote JDBC as we are using the J2EE Engine.
So, here’s the example of how to set up the BAM Updater service….
Go into ‘Process Monitoring’ and select the ‘BAM’ tab and enter the relevant information (using the names created earlier – use the drop down list to select):
Note that here, to allow me to quickly test BAM reporting, I have set the update frequency to 1 minute. This would not be the production setting.
Once the data is input, click <Save>.
We now have to create the schema and related tables. For this we will open the “Manage Database” page that has appeared at the bottom of the BAM screen (you may have to re-select that Tab) and select to create the database and the data structure. The user required to perform this operation is the DB system administrator:
Text showing the successful creation of the database and data structures should appear.
Once we are done with the schema creation, we can move to the Process Data Mart configuration screen to set up the Common Updater Service parameters. Notice that the service has not been started yet… We will get to that point later.
4. Configuring Process Data Mart Updater Service
In the case that Data Mart information is not going to be used, the “Enable Automatic Update” checkbox must be left off and the “Runtime Database Configuration” empty for this service. Additionally, the rest of this section can be skipped.
In the case it is going to be used, the detail level, snapshot time and the time of update should be configured; in addition to enabling the updater and choosing the storage configuration. An example is shown below:
Still in ‘Process Monitoring’, select the ‘Process Data Mart’ tab and enter the name created earlier (use the drop down list to select).
Also, un-tick the Generate O3 Cubes (see later notes):
Then click <Save>.
Once those properties have been configured the database and the data structure have to be created. This is performed at the “Manage Database” page for which the link has appeared at the bottom of the page (as with BAM). Even when this page is identical to the one shown above (for the BAM configuration) it has been opened from the link in the “Process Data Mart” page and this makes it different.
Text showing the successful creation of the database and data structures should appear.
5. Configuring Common Updater Service Parameters
In the “Process Data Mart” tab of the Process Monitoring section -along with the parameters that are specific to the Data Mart - we will find some parameters that are common to all services. These parameters are:
• Log directory: location of the log file
• Messages logged from Data Store Updater: severity level of the Updater logs
• Language
• Generate Performance Metrics: enables performance metrics generation
• Generate Workload Metrics: enables workload metrics generation
• Generate O3 Cubes: enables O3 Cubes generation
In this document we are not going to describe in detail each parameter. But we will mention a few caveats:
a. the Log directory must be specified in order for the logs to be generated
b. the Messages logged from Data Store Updater, which indicates the level
of the logs, should be DEBUG for troubleshooting and WARNING otherwise
c. Performance and Workload Metrics need to be on for the typical BAM usage and, even when either metric might not be used on the initial project releases, it is recommended to leave them on in case they turn out to be useful in the future
d. the Generation of O3 Cubes must be off if this service is not used, otherwise the Data Mart Updater service might not work properly .
The only changes required on this screen was to de-select the ‘Generate O3 Cubes’ as shown in the last section.
6. Set up the WebLogic configuration
We need to set up the JDBC data source specified above, so go to Services / JDBC / Data Sources.
Click on <Lock and Edit> and then <New> to add a New data source.
Specify:
·     the Name – use the name you set up in the Process Administrator
·     the JNDI Name – again use the name you set up in the Process Administrator
·     the Database Type – Oracle
·     use the default Oracle Database Driver
Then click <Next>
On the next screen, click <Next>
On the next screen specify:
·     the Database Name – this is the SID – for me that is XE
·     the Host Name – as I am running on my laptop, I’ve just specified ‘localhost’
·     the Database User Name and Password – this is the BAM database user specified in the Process Administrator
Then click <Next>
On the next screen, you can test the configuration to make sure you have got it right, then click <Next>
On the next screen, select your server as the target server and click <Finish>:
Finally, click <Activate Changes>.
7. The Last Step: Starting Up and Shutting Down the Updater Service
ALBPM distribution is different depending on the Operating System. In the case of the Updater Service:
-     For Unix like Operating Systems the service is started or stopped with the albpmwarehouse.sh shell script. The command in this case is going to look like this:
$ALBPM_HOME/bin$ ./albpmwarehouse.sh start
-     For Windows Operating Systems the service is installed or uninstalled as a Windows Service with the albpmwarehouse.bat batch file. The command will look like:
%ALBPM_HOME%\bin> albpmwarehouse.bat install
After installing the service, it has to be started|stopped from the Microsoft Management Console. Note also that Windows will start automatically the installed service when the computer starts. In either case the location of the script is ALBPM_HOME/bin Where ALBPM_HOME is the ALBPM installation directory. An example will be:
C:\bea\albpm6.0\j2eewl\bin\albpmwarehouse.bat
8. Finally: Running BAM dashboards to show it is Working
Now we have finally got the BAM service running, we can run dashboards from within Workspace and see the results:
9. General BAM and Data Mart Caveats
a. The basic difference between these two collections of measurements is that BAM keeps track of current processes load and execution times while Data Mart contains a historical view of those same measurements. This is why BAM information is collected frequently (every minute) and cleared out every several hours (or every day) and why Data Mart is updated infrequently (once a day) and grows indefinitely. Moreover, BAM measurements can be though of as a minute-by-minute sequence of Engine Events snapshots, while Data Mart measurements will be a daily sequence of Engine Events snapshots.
b. BAM and Data Mart table schemas are very similar but they are not the same. Thus, it is important not to use a schema created with the Manage Database for BAM as Data Mart storage or vice-versa. If these schemas are exchanged by mistake, the updater service will run anyway but no data will be added to the tables and there will be errors in the log indicating that the schema is incorrect or that some tables could not be found.
c. BAM and Data Mart Information and Services are independent from one another. Any of them can be configured and running without the other one. The information is extracted directly from the Engine Database (PPROCINSTEVENT table is the main source of info) for both of them.
d. So far there has not been a mention of engines, projects or processes in any of the BAM or Data Mart configurations. This is because the metrics of all projects published under the current Process Administrator (or, more precisely, FDI Directory) are going to be collected.
e. It is also important to note that only activities for which events are generated are going to be measured (and therefore, shown in the metrics). The project default is to generate events only for Interactive activities. This can be changed for any particular activity and for the whole process (where the activity setting, when specified, overrides the process setting). Unfortunately, there is no project setting for events generation so far; thus, remember to edit the level of event generation for every new process that is added to the project.
f. BAM and Data Mart metrics are usually enriched with Business Variables. These variables are a special type of External Variables. An External Variable is a process variable with the scope of an Instance and whose value is stored on a separate column in the Engine Instances table. This allows the creation of views and filters based on this variable. A Business Variable, then, shares all the properties of an External Variable plus the fact that its value is collected in all BAM and Data Mart measurements (in some cases the value is shown as it is for a particular instance and in others the value is aggregated).
The caveat here is that there is a maximum number of 256 Business Variables per FDI. Therefore, when publishing several projects into a single FDI directory it is recommendable to reuse business variables. This is achieved by mapping similar Business Variables of different projects with a unique real Variable (on the variable mapping performed at publish time).
g. Configuring the Updater Service Log
In section 5. Configuring Common Updater Service Parameters we have seen that there are two common Updater properties related to logging. These properties are “Log directory” and “Messages logged from Data Store Updater”, and they specify the location and level of these two files:
- dwupdater.log: which is the log for the Data Mart updater service
- bam-dwupdater.log: which is the log for the BAM updater service
In addition to these two properties, there is a configuration file called ‘WarehouseService.conf’ that allows us to modify these other properties:
- wrapper.console.loglevel: level for the updater service log
- wrapper.logfile.loglevel: level for the updater service log
- wrapper.java.additional.n: additional argument to the service JVM
- wrapper.logfile.maxsize: maximum size of the updater service log files
- wrapper.logfile.maxfiles: maximum number of updater service log files
- wrapper.logfile: updater service log file name (the default value is dwupdater-service.log)
9.1. Updater Service Log Configuration Caveats
a. The first three parameters listed above have to be modified when increasing the log level to DEBUG (since the default is WARNING). The loglevel parameters have to be set to DEBUG and a java.additional.n (where n is a consecutive integer to the already used ones) has to be set to –ea to enable asserts, since without this option no DEBUG message is going to be generated.
b. Of the other arguments, maxfiles might need to be increased to hold a few more days of data when the log level is set to DEBUG (with the default value up to two days are stored).
c. The updater service has to be stopped, uninstalled, installed and then started for any of these changes to take effect.
Hope this helps,
Dan

Oracle BPM Composer and no ADF

Hi Everyone,
We are planning to use Oracle BPM as our BPM engine. But our organization doesn't support ADF. So could anyone help to answer the below questions. Thanks a lot for your time.
1) Can we use Oracle BPM Composer... Does Oracle BPM composer require extended ADF Domain?
2) Default BPM workspace can't be used. So we need to build our own workspace. Are they any predefined framework to build a MVC or any other java framework to build workspace.
3)Could anyone let me know the additional things we should take care in case we don't use ADF domain.
Thanks everyone for your time.

Oracle BPM Studio (JDeveloper) is used by developers to create processes, human tasks, the process instance payloads, the composite services used by the processes, complex transformations, business rules and the ADF UIs.
Composer is a business user oriented web based tool used by business analysts with similar capabilities. Using Composer, business people can create and maintain processes, define process instance payloads, human tasks, process payloads, business rules. Instead of creating ADF UIs, you create and test web forms using a web based UI web form designer tool that it comes with in 11.1.1.7. Because the forms built using Composer can only be viewed from the Workspace or WebCenter Spaces tools, and because you're not going to use the Workspace or WebCenter Spaces tools, you won't be able to use Composer to create your UIs.
You might want to rethink your decision to not use the Workspace or WebCenter Spaces tools, but because you're not going to use either one you will instead be building your forms using the form design tool of your choice.
Although I'd advise you against recreating it, you'll need to become comfortable using the different APIs Oracle BPM exposes if you're going to try to duplicate the Workspace and WebCenter Spaces tool functionality.
Here's the API JavaDoc and a few blogs that will give you some tips on getting started:
API JavaDoc reference -
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/apirefs.1111/e25378/toc.htm
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/apirefs.1111/e10660/oracle/bpel/services/workflow/query/ITaskQueryService.html
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28389_01/apirefs.1111/e25378/oracle/bpm/services/instancequery/IInstanceQueryService.html
Simple list example -
http://soadev.blogspot.in/2011/07/querying-oracle-bpm-process-instances.html
Aborting instances -
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/apirefs.1111/e10659/oracle/soa/management/facade/package-tree.html
Creating instances -
http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/invoking-bpm-processes-via-java.html
Building a custom worklist ap -
http://redstack.wordpress.com/worklist/
http://redstack.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/creating-the-domain-layer-for-the-worklist/
http://redstack.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/implementing-task-initiation/
Purging Instances -
http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/soabpm-apis-manipulating-composites-and.html
Instance Query -
http://java.net/projects/oraclebpmsuite11g/downloads/directory/Samples/bpm-api-101-instance-query
Human Workflow Services / Human Task API -
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/dev.1111/e10224/bp_workflow.htm
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/apirefs.1111/e10660/toc.htm
Oracle BPM 11g Human Workflow Service Java API – Part 1
   http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/oracle-human-workflow-service-java-api.html
Oracle BPM 11g Human Workflow Service Java API – Part 2
   http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-workflow-java-api-part-2.html
Oracle BPM 11g Human Workflow Service Java API – Part 3 – ITaskQueryService.AssignmentFilter
   http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/12/oracle-human-workflow-part-3.html
UMS API:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/apirefs.1111/e14011/toc.htm
Dan

Oracle BPM Suite : Oracle BPM vs Oracle BPEL PM

Hi All,
I am new in Oracle BPM and how some experience learning how to use Oracle BPM. Now when reading about the components products inside "Oracle BPM Suite" in detail , I am some what confuse about :
1) In What situation that we should use "Oracle BPM" rather than "Oracle BPEL PM" ?
2) In What situation that we should use "Oracle BPEL PM" rather than "Oracle BPM" ?
I am confuse about these issue since both of the products come together when we order "Oracle BPM Suite" and both of the products can be used for "HUman Workflow Applications" as well
Could you please help clarify these issues ? Thank you very much in advance.
Best Regards
Pearapon S.

Hi Pearapon,
You’ve raised a good point.
Every once in a while, I see an article written by a BPM pundit that attempts to make the case that the BPMN approach (Oracle BPM uses this) is superior to the BPEL approach or vice versa. Here's one example on InfoQ - http://www.infoq.com/articles/bpelbpm. Its title "Why BPEL is not the holy grail for BPM" is very misleading. This is a typical example of an author sitting in either the BPMN or BPEL camp criticizing the other camp's standard. In this article, the author attempts to indict all BPMN to BPEL conversion attempts based on the author's poorly drawn process.
Although I know that controversy boosts readership of these types of articles, in my opinion it’s not a “vs.”. Both the BPMN and BPEL standards have strengths when used with certain use cases.
Here’s one scenario where Oracle BPM and Oracle BPEL PM are synergistic. My background is with Oracle BPM, but I’ve used Oracle BPEL PM on a project for the orchestration of composite services. I used Oracle BPM to model the business processes understood by executives, managers, subject matter experts, business analysts and developers. Using the same simple role based activity flow process diagram, everyone understands what the business problem is and how the process will work solve the problem. The Oracle BPM Automatic activities in the process hit Oracle BPEL processes. Here we used the BPEL processes to hit and orchestrate the underlying IT components . We exposed the BPEL processes using the customer’s service bus and we invoked it from the Oracle BPM process’s Automatic activity (Oracle BPM -> OSB -> Oracle BPEL). Alternatively, If the customer had not had a service bus, I could have invoked the BPEL process directly from the Oracle BPM process via a cataloged web service in Oracle BPM.
Hope this helps,
Dan

Oracle BPM Issue - By lock held by indoubt transaction

Hi ,
I am getting the below issue while processing the work items(Applications) in the Oracle BPM. I am using Oracle BPM 10g R3 (10.3.1.0.0 Build# 100812) in Linux Environment.
An unexpected error occured while trying to execute an automatic task,pending automatic tasks will continue to be executed. Details:\n"An error occured while accessing the database. Detail: SQL statement: 'SELECT DUETIME, ID, PROCESSID,INSTDID, THREADID, ANCESTORTHREADID, TSTAMP, TYPE, ACTIVITYNAME,ORIGINPROCESSDN, REAL THREADID, NETYPE, PRIORITY, LATER, DATA FROM PTODOITEMS WHERE DUETIME=2011-12-22 11:23:53.0 AND PROCESSID=31 AND ID=94370151 FOR UPDATE' Caused by :[BEA][Oracle JDBC Driver][Oracle]ORA-01591: lock held by in doubt distributed transaction 9.30.1176766 fuego.transaction.DatabaseException; An error occured while accessing the database. Detail:SQL statment: 'SELECT DUETIME, ID, PROCESSID,INSTDID, THREADID, ANCESTORTHREADID, TSTAMP, TYPE, ACTIVITYNAME,ORIGINPROCESSDN, REAL THREADID, NETYPE, PRIORITY, LATER, DATA FROM PTODOITEMS WHERE DUETIME=2011-12-22 11:23:53.0 AND PROCESSID=31 AND ID=94370151 FOR UPDATE' at
If I force COMMIT the Transaction 9.30.1176766 in the dba_2pc_pending, pending_trans$, pending_sessions$ tables, I am able to move forward.
Please help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks In Advance.
Bhaskara

Hi ,
I am getting the below issue while processing the work items(Applications) in the Oracle BPM. I am using Oracle BPM 10g R3 (10.3.1.0.0 Build# 100812) in Linux Environment.
An unexpected error occured while trying to execute an automatic task,pending automatic tasks will continue to be executed. Details:\n"An error occured while accessing the database. Detail: SQL statement: 'SELECT DUETIME, ID, PROCESSID,INSTDID, THREADID, ANCESTORTHREADID, TSTAMP, TYPE, ACTIVITYNAME,ORIGINPROCESSDN, REAL THREADID, NETYPE, PRIORITY, LATER, DATA FROM PTODOITEMS WHERE DUETIME=2011-12-22 11:23:53.0 AND PROCESSID=31 AND ID=94370151 FOR UPDATE' Caused by :[BEA][Oracle JDBC Driver][Oracle]ORA-01591: lock held by in doubt distributed transaction 9.30.1176766 fuego.transaction.DatabaseException; An error occured while accessing the database. Detail:SQL statment: 'SELECT DUETIME, ID, PROCESSID,INSTDID, THREADID, ANCESTORTHREADID, TSTAMP, TYPE, ACTIVITYNAME,ORIGINPROCESSDN, REAL THREADID, NETYPE, PRIORITY, LATER, DATA FROM PTODOITEMS WHERE DUETIME=2011-12-22 11:23:53.0 AND PROCESSID=31 AND ID=94370151 FOR UPDATE' at
If I force COMMIT the Transaction 9.30.1176766 in the dba_2pc_pending, pending_trans$, pending_sessions$ tables, I am able to move forward.
Please help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks In Advance.
Bhaskara

Oracle BPM vs BPEL

Hi All,
I have some confusion between Oracle BPM vs BPEL. I have seen some posts regarding this but that was not clear to me.
Please clarify.
1) In What situation that we should use "Oracle BPM" rather than "Oracle BPEL PM" ?
2) In What situation that we should use "Oracle BPEL PM" rather than "Oracle BPM" ?
Thanks

In my opinion it’s not a “vs.”. Both the BPM and BPEL have strengths, they are often used together, and Oracle BPM and Oracle BPEL PM are synergistic.
Oracle BPEL PM is included with Oracle BPM Suite. We use Oracle BPEL processes on projects to orchestrate the services in a composite and we use Oracle BPM processes to model the business processes understood by executives, managers, subject matter experts, business analysts and developers. Using the same simple role based BPMN diagram in Oracle BPM, everyone understands what the business problem is and how the process will work solve the problem.
An activity in an Oracle BPM process can be used to invoke a Oracle BPEL process that in turn orchestrates the underlying IT components.

BPM Process Creation: Can't find bundle oracle.bpm.fusion.soa.msg

Hi
I cant create a BPM process in my Jdeveloper .4, .5 or .6. I have updated all them with the BPM extension. While creating a BPM application, the technologies being included in the application, i.e. BPM and SOA are correct. However, on the next page, I can't see any templates. Even if I click finish at that page, only a simple SOA project (not a BPM one, since the BPM Project Navigator tab is absent) gets created with an error log:
SEVERE: Exception while updating observer[1]: oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.addin.SCAAddin@b8a11a
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name oracle.bpm.fusion.soa.msg.BPMNStringResourceBundle, locale
     at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:1427)
     at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:1250)
     at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:952)
     at oracle.javatools.util.BundleLoader.getBundleImpl(BundleLoader.java:130)
     at oracle.javatools.util.BundleLoader.getBundle(BundleLoader.java:167)
     at oracle.javatools.util.BundleLoader.getBundle(BundleLoader.java:152)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.config.SCAConfig.getChildElementValue(SCAConfig.java:580)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.config.SCAConfig.loadComponentType(SCAConfig.java:451)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.config.SCAConfig.loadComponentTypes(SCAConfig.java:395)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.config.SCAConfig.<init>(SCAConfig.java:370)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.config.SCAConfig.getSCAConfig(SCAConfig.java:148)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.config.SCAConfig.getSCAConfig(SCAConfig.java:133)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.addin.ScaProjectNodeListener.<init>(ScaProjectNodeListener.java:71)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.addin.SCAAddin.handleObjectOpenedEvent(SCAAddin.java:462)
     at oracle.tip.tools.ide.fabric.addin.SCAAddin.update(SCAAddin.java:348)
     at oracle.ide.model.IdeSubject.notifyObservers(IdeSubject.java:98)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node.notifyObservers(Node.java:786)
     at oracle.ide.model.UpdateMessage.fireObjectOpened(UpdateMessage.java:673)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node$14$1.run(Node.java:2878)
     at oracle.ide.model.NodeListener.invokeLaterIfNeeded(NodeListener.java:158)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node$14.nodeOpened(Node.java:2869)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node$5.run(Node.java:2531)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node.fireNodeEvent(Node.java:2467)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node.fireNodeOpened(Node.java:2529)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node.open(Node.java:988)
     at oracle.ide.model.Node.open(Node.java:922)
     at oracle.ideri.navigator.DefaultNavigatorWindow.openDataNodes(DefaultNavigatorWindow.java:1237)
     at oracle.ideri.navigator.DefaultNavigatorWindow.restoreExpansionState(DefaultNavigatorWindow.java:1215)
     at oracle.ideri.navigator.DefaultNavigatorWindow.loadLayout(DefaultNavigatorWindow.java:619)
     at oracle.ide.navigator.ProjectNavigatorWindow.loadLayout(ProjectNavigatorWindow.java:391)
     at oracle.ide.docking.DrawerWindow.loadLayout(DrawerWindow.java:640)
     at oracle.ide.navigator.ApplicationNavigatorWindow.loadLayout(ApplicationNavigatorWindow.java:1174)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.DockStationImpl.loadViewData(DockStationImpl.java:1353)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.TitledPanel.loadClientLayout(TitledPanel.java:1376)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.TitledPanel.loadLayout(TitledPanel.java:1714)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.TitledPanelXMLDockLayoutPersistence.loadComponent(TitledPanelXMLDockLayoutPersistence.java:29)
     at oracle.ideimpl.controls.dockLayout.DockLayoutInfoLeaf.loadLayout(DockLayoutInfoLeaf.java:123)
     at oracle.ideimpl.controls.dockLayout.AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.loadLayout(AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.java:631)
     at oracle.ideimpl.controls.dockLayout.AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.loadLayout(AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.java:628)
     at oracle.ideimpl.controls.dockLayout.AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.loadLayout(AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.java:628)
     at oracle.ideimpl.controls.dockLayout.AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.loadLayout(AbstractDockLayoutInfoNode.java:614)
     at oracle.ideimpl.controls.dockLayout.DockLayout.loadLayout(DockLayout.java:302)
     at oracle.ideimpl.controls.dockLayout.DockLayoutPanel.loadLayout(DockLayoutPanel.java:128)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.SidePort.loadLayout(SidePort.java:255)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.DockStationImpl.loadValidLayout(DockStationImpl.java:1965)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.DockStationImpl.loadExistingPositions(DockStationImpl.java:1654)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.DockStationImpl.onStartup(DockStationImpl.java:1629)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.DockStationImpl.loadLayout(DockStationImpl.java:1473)
     at oracle.ideimpl.docking.DockStationListener.init(DockStationListener.java:36)
     at oracle.ide.layout.Layouts.activate(Layouts.java:814)
     at oracle.ide.layout.Layouts.activateLayout(Layouts.java:192)
     at oracle.ideimpl.MainWindowImpl$6.runImpl(MainWindowImpl.java:728)
     at oracle.javatools.util.SwingClosure$1Closure.run(SwingClosure.java:50)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:199)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
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Thanks,
Pulkit

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I want to use class ProcessInstanceAuditHelper and class ProcessInstanceTaskHelper in my programe.
and these two classes is in package oracle.bpm.services.tools which is described in the http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/apirefs.1111/e25378/toc.htm.
I have already installed BPM suite correctly,and it works well.
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As you know, this is not the case - the URL you have in your thread for the API is the latest for 11.1.1.6. Both classes you mention should be supported (at least according to the Javadoc) and in a recent search I was not able to find them either.
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We are a very large organisation doing our business process implementation using Oracle BPM 10.3g. Currently we are working on only 3 processes, but over next couple of years, we would have at least 10 LIVE processes. As an organisation, we are wondering if we should at all move to OBPM 11g or would it be better to move as early as possible.
As I understand, the migration from 10.3g to 11g would not be migration, but re-work of all the processes. Is this correct?
Or does Oracle have plans to come out with BPM 12g that would offer migration features from 10.3g?
Are there any good reasons why a large organisation like ours would benefit by moving to BPM 11g? If yes, what are these reasons?
Are these benefits good enough to scrap 1-2 years effort and BPM knowledge earned while developing solution on BPM 10.3g as BPM 11g looks architecturally quite different from 11g?
Or should our approach be to implement all our processes on 10.3g and then move onto 11g 2-3 years from now if the benefits are not significant?
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Edited by: 874034 on 21-Jul-2011 07:23

Hi.
I'd like to add some comments here that might be useful.
As Mark already said, migration tools will be provided in 12 for transforming 10.3 projects. It is important to note that these tools will facilitate migration but will no accomplish a 100% automated transformation. One quick reason would be the support of BPMN (design and runtime) instead of XPDL. Some XPDL stuff may be represented in different ways in BPMN and you will have to choose which option is better for you.
So what I think is really important for any 10.3 customer is to start knowing and using the new platform. Some of the reasons would be:
- Each BPM project is different. Knowing about 11/12 will help you understand the specific situation of your project.
- Based on the above, you will be in good shape to understand migration procedures and impact as soon as documentation is ready.
- You may find that new processes you have to develop can take advantage of 11g features, so you will have the option of implementing them using the new version.
- Runtime platform may also be different. That will depend on you current environment (standalone for instance) which may be different from 11g. So it's not only about design patterns, but also runtime.
Again, BPM implementation is different, so for some customers it'd be better to wait until 12 to migrate their processes but others can start developing on 11g right now. In order to decide which is the best approach you need to know about the new platform. And Mark also mentioned one huge advantage: you can start with 11gPS4 right now knowing that the experience will help you a lot also for 12.
So my strong suggestion would be to take time to read docs, download the tool and implement some samples. You may even want to prototype some of your existing processes (or the new ones) in the tools and see how it goes.
Another tip I can suggest is to look for 10.3 guidelines to minimize migration. This doc have some suggestions for having an easier migration path in the future but most importantly provides information about how many 10.3 features are going to be 'mapped' into 12g, and I think it's going to be valuable information for you. The current version is quite outdated. Product Management intends to update it for next OOW.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Gustavo

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I have Oracle BPM product in production which is fine and happy the way it works. Its developed from Version: 10.3.1.0.0 Build: #100364. We use custom JSP, JavaComponent, PAPI etc in this.
We are thinking of migrating to Oracle SOA 11g Suite.
Is there any tool for this? If not, anything expected?
Do we need to re-write our BPM 10g app to 11g? What all parts might need to re-write?

To answer to you question in a straight way I am afraid there is no direct migration path from OBPM 10g to Oracle SOA Suite 11g. You would need to we-write a lot of things like
1. As of now the BPM API's arent public. so u wont have something like PAPI as in OBPM
2. There is no support for PBL/Java in Oracle BPM 11g. However if you want to use custom Java Component u can leverage BPEL or Spring along with BPM. Every component is afterall packed inside a single composite.
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