As mentioned in my previous post, Oracle BPM 11g Quick Tip - Making BPM Process Instance Creation, this is another "Quick Tip" topic.  While on a project, I ran into an Oracle 10g SOA Suite guru and the topic came up about setting the value of the Composite Title or Name for an

With the endless possibilities of BPM 11g topics to write about I found myself a little overwhelmed with the number of topics to discuss, the amount of depth involved concerning some topics, and whether or not the topic has a desirable level of enjoyment or usefulness to a reader.  Normally, I would not put too much concern in picking a topic.  If there is a BPM topic that is important and should be discussed I have always felt that it should be discussed.  However, last week I presented on an extremely important problem we face on project engagements, a resolution to the pro

When working with Oracle BPM 11g you may find that there is an overwhelming amount of functionality that is available.  Learning every trick and every secret is a constant effort that will never end due to new patches, patch sets, and product releases coming down the pipe.  In any case, I have a nice little trick of exposing the existing Identity Service XPath functions within the BPM Expression Builder editor for JDeveloper version 11g 11.1.1.4.0 (PS3).  The Identity Service XPath functions are not automatically exposed in this version of JDeveloper.  I believe that in

As an Avio consultant, I work with many different clients and with many different technologies.  During my current engagement, it dawned on me that something as simple as initializing a variable can be very different across the many technologies and programming languages that my coworkers and I encounter.  In this particular case, I wanted to perform a simple POC (Proof of Concept) in Oracle BPEL 11g using a BPEL 2.0 service.  In doing so, I came across the need to initialize a BPEL variable with an XML literal.