#297 BAM and BPM Part 3

In this post, I add a rule to BAM to automatically re-order iPads, when the inventory is less than 10.

To begin with I create a web service to mimic the re-ordering.

I create the following class in JDeveloper and expose as a web service.

I deploy to my SOA AdminServer and test

Note the wsdl -
http://localhost:7001/OrderProcessingService/OrderProcessingPort?WSDL

Now open BAM in Architect mode, add a new data objetc - LowInventory with one field - Product.

Now open BAM in Active Studio mode, open the report  -

Edit -

Double click on the Action List and click Change Report Properties

Add a new Action

Edit the mapping - setting product in LowInventory to the value of Product from the ActionList.

Save the report and run in Active Viewer

Check the lowInventory Data Object

It has one row -

Now we add a rule to call the web service when this happens.

Configure the Web Service

re-test

I enter an order for 5 iPads.
I approve the order.

I select the order and click Re-order Product in the BAM report

I check the WLS console for the web service output.

#296 BAM and BPM Part 2

In this post I create some dashboards for the BPM process.

I begin by adding a new data object  - MyOrder - to BAM.
This will contain the following info -
Customer name, Product, Quantity and order value (unit price * quantity)

Open BAM and click on the Architect button
Create a new sub folder and then a new data object in there

Create a new data object based on the Inventories DB table

Now go to JDev and augment the project with a BAM adapter.

Add a Service Task (UpdateBAM) to the process to leverage the BAM adapter.
Data Associations as follows -

Deploy and Test

Approve the order for Hans and review the trail in EM

No back to BAM - Click the active studio link to create a new report based on our 2
data objects

Choose the 2nd template -2 tiles

Tile 1 - Action List - based on MyOrders Data object
Tile 2 - Bar Chart - based on MyInventory data object

Click on the Active Viewer button in BAM and select the report we just created

execute the process again for a different customer

In the next post, I will create a rule to auto-reorder iPads once there are less than 10 in stock

#295 BAM and BPM part 1

In this post I cover the use of BAM OOTB for BPM process analysis.

I have the following simple process that processes an Order -

Here are the DB tables accessed in the process -

Here is the process -

Here is the composite -

I deploy and test and verify that all is working.

Now I start the BAM server.
For this post, I will be leveraging the Sample Monitor Express components.
These need to be installed. Follow the README.txt at -

Now we need to do the BAM adapter setup in the WLS console -

Open the BPM project preferences -

Change as follows -

Login to BAM - http://localhost:9001/OracleBAM/

Start a couple of instances of the process via EM -

Click on the BAM - Active Viewer button

Click - Select Report

Now let's add a counter to the process - to count the number of approval rejections.

re-deploy and create some new instances.
Reject one of them

In BAM, click on Process View and select the process

We see the current value of our counter