Usage of SQL and SQLQuery Component Oracle BPM 10g

Question

Hey Friends,
I have created SQl and SQL query catalog compoenents in Oracle BPM 10g, but unable to figure about how to use them in the BPM process. Do i need to create an automatic activity and make implemenatation as method and write java/pbl code there. Please suggest some solution with code snippet.
Thanks!!

Answer 1

Having them cataloged constitutes most of the work you'll need to do. As you mention, the rest of the work is figuring out how you want to use them in a process.
As an example, if you wanted to have method that would return a list of customer ids you could create a method in a BPM Object:
listOfIds as String[]
for each element in
  SELECT customerId
    FROM customer
  do
    listOfIds[] = String(element.customerid)
end
// return the array with the valid values
return listOfIdsAfter adding this, you'll notice that there is an error flagged for your logic. Look at the Properties tab and change the "Server Side Method" property to "Yes".
Now that you have the method that returns an array, you could use it to automatically populate a dropdown field for an attribute in the BPM Object. You'd do this by opening the properties of the attribute and changing the "Valid Values" property to "Dynamic Method" and select the method you just added.
There's more to it than this, but hope this is enough to get you going,
Dan