Workflow desupport

Hi All,
The statement of direction says:"Oracle has announced product obsolescence for Oracle Workflow."
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/workflow/workflow_sod.html
That is pretty darn serious for OWB.
What's happening? What the heck are we supposed to do?
Cheers,
Donna

Hi,
I checked over on the Workflow thread, and this is what is said:
"Workflow desupport starts this September for standalone Workflow. The Oracle plan is for everyone to migrate to BPEL - however, I haven't seen anything from Oracle that details how this is achievable without a complete rebuild."
This is scary stuff. Sure, OWF client is integrated into OWB, OWF server is not. And here's what Oracle say:
"Oracle Workflow Client and Oracle Workflow Server will not be included in Oracle Database Editions 11g and above.
Oracle Workflow will only be included in Oracle E-Business Suite releases."
Which means OWB is stuffed post 10gR2? Or even just for planning post-September?
Unhappy,
Donna
p.s. I understand that while OWF is bundled (i.e.e 'free'), BPEL is a bolt-on at about 12,000 UKP per CPU.
That was from Matthew Searle. He has a website at http://www.workflowfaq.com/ and it has a forum where this topic is one of the discussions. Worth reading.
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                                amount      => dbms_lob.getlength(v_file_on_os),
                                dest_offset => v_dest_offset,
                                src_offset  => v_src_offset);
      dbms_lob.fileclose(v_file_on_os);
      p_document_type := 'application/pdf;name=' || v_file_name;
      dbms_lob.copy(p_document, v_temp_lob, dbms_lob.getlength(v_temp_lob));
    EXCEPTION
      WHEN OTHERS THEN
        wf_core.CONTEXT('ZZ_PO_REQAPPROVAL_INIT1',
                        'xx_notif_attachments',
                        v_document_num,
                        p_request_id);
        RAISE;
    END xx_notif_attachments;
    Please help me find a to the above mentioned error.
    Thanks,
    Suvigya

    There are two ways to look at what error the PLSQLBLOB API is throwing.
    1) Call your PLSQLBLOB API GNE_PO_CREATE_FILE_ATTACHMENT.Gne_Create_File_Attachment directly from a PLSQL block and verify that it returns the BLOB data successfully.
    You could also call another WF API that in turn executes the PLSQLBLOB API internally. For example,
    <pre>
    declare
    l_document blob;
    l_doctype varchar2(240);
    l_aname varchar2(90);
    begin
    dbms_lob.CreateTemporary(l_document, true, dbms_lob.Session);
    -- 207046 - This is the notification id of your failed workflow
    -- PO_REPORT - Document type attribute
    -- 'text/html' - Content Type being generated for
    Wf_Notification.GetAttrBLOB(207046, 'PO_REPORT', 'text/html', l_document, l_doctype, l_aname);
    -- Print the size of the document here to verify it was fetched correctly
    end;
    </pre>
    2) Turn on log for SYSADMIN user with following attributes.
    Log Enabled = TRUE
    Log Level = ERROR
    Log Module = wf.plsql%
    Restart the Workflow Deferred Agent Listener and Workflow Notification Deferred Agent Listener and run your workflow process. Search for log messages written for above context and you can identify the error at wf.plsql.WF_XML.GetAttachment module with message starting as "Error when getting BLOB attachment ->"
    Hope this helps.
    Vijay

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