Phani has also tidied up a small omission from earlier POMs, which a number of you have commented on.  This POM copies the SAR file into the target directory so that it will be published into the Maven repository as part of the build, rather than an almost empty file with the POM in it.  While we may not be able to use it as a dependency in another composite using just the Maven coordinates (like we can with Java artifacts for example), it at least makes it available to other developers.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.phani..AgentDataService</groupId>
  <artifactId>GetAgentData</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <scm>
    <connection>scm:svn://x.x.x.x/repo/AgentService/trunk/SOAComposite</connection>
    <developerConnection>scm:svn://x.x.x.x/repo/AgentService/trunk/SOAComposite</developerConnection>
  </scm>
  <build>
    <sourceDirectory>src/</sourceDirectory>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>add-source</id>
            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>add-source</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <sources>
                <source>SCA-INF/src</source>
              </sources>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.6</source>
          <target>1.6</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.6</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>sca-compile</id>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <configuration>
              <target>
                <property name="parent" location=".." />
                <property name="scac.input" value="composite.xml" />
                <property name="oracle.soa.uddi.registry.inquiryUrl" value="http://gh123:7101/registry/uddi/inquiry" />
                <ant antfile="${scriptsdir}/ant-sca-compile.xml"
                     dir = "${scriptsdir}"
                     target="scac" />
              </target>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>sca-package</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <configuration>
              <target>
                <property name="parent" location=".." />
                <property name="oracle.soa.uddi.registry.inquiryUrl" value="http://gh123:7101/registry/uddi/inquiry" />
                <property name="build.compiler" value="extJavac"/>
                <property name="compositeName" value="${project.artifactId}" />
                <property name="compositeDir" value="${basedir}" />
                <property name="revision" value="${project.version}" />
                <ant antfile="${scriptsdir}/ant-sca-package.xml"
                     dir = "${scriptsdir}"
                     target="package" />
              </target>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
		  <execution>
            <id>sca-copy-jar</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <configuration>
              <target>
                 <copy file="${basedir}/deploy/sca_${project.artifactId}_rev${project.version}.jar" tofile="${basedir}/target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar"/>
              </target>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>sca-deploy</id>
            <phase>deploy</phase>
            <configuration>
              <target>
                <property name="serverURL" value="http://gh345:7011" />
                <property name="user" value="weblogic" />
                <property name="password" value="password1" />
                <property name="sarLocation" value="${basedir}/deploy/sca_${project.artifactId}_rev${project.version}.jar" />
                <property name="overwrite" value="true" />
                <property name="forceDefault" value="true" />
                <property name="partition" value="default" />
                <ant antfile="${scriptsdir}/ant-sca-deploy.xml"
                     dir="${scriptsdir}"
                     target="deploy" />
              </target>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>sca-test</id>
            <phase>deploy</phase>
            <configuration>
              <target>
                <property name="parent" location=".." />
                <property name="jndi.properties.input" value="sca-test.jndi.properties" />
                <property name="scatest.input" value="AgentData" />
                <property name="scatest.format" value="junit" />
                <property name="scatest.result" value="reports" />
                <ant antfile="${scriptsdir}/ant-sca-test.xml"
                     dir="${scriptsdir}"
                     target="test" />
              </target>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
    <outputDirectory>SCA-INF\classes/</outputDirectory>
    <resources/>
  </build>
  <distributionManagement>
    <!-- use the following if you're not using a snapshot version. -->
    <!--<repository>
      <id>local</id>
      <name>local repository</name>
      <url>file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Phani/.m2/repository</url>
    </repository> -->
    <snapshotRepository>
      <id>artifactory</id>
      <name>artifactory-snapshots</name>
      <url>http://portalserver:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local</url>
    </snapshotRepository>
  </distributionManagement>
</project>

</project>

Thank you Phani.  Enjoy!

A little known fact about BPM is that it includes identity virtualization support through libOVD.  It is not necessary to install a full blown OVD or to set up custom DB authenticators, etc.  You can just use libOVD.

My colleague Christopher Karl Chan from Denmark has a good introduction to this topic here which I would encourage you to read if you are looking at this kind of requirement.

If you are using BPM (or SOA) and you are not using any of the B2B functionality, then you might want to consider disabling B2B on your SOA managed servers.  There are a few good reasons for doing this:

• You will save some memory,
• You will reduce your managed server start (and restart) time, and
• You avoid any potential problems that may be introduced by running unnecessary modules – think security.

So how do we do it?  There are two steps that you need to take.

First, log on the WebLogic Console and go to Deployments.  Find the b2b application and stop it.

The second step is a little more involved – we need to set the b2b.donot_initialize property to true.  But first, we need to define this property.

Log on the Enterprise Manager and navigate to soa-infra.  Then open the SOA Infrastructure menu, then SOA Administration, then B2B Server Properties.

Click on the More B2B Configuration Properties… link.

Go to the Operations tab.

Click on the addProperty operation to define a new property.

In the key field, enter b2b.donot_initialize.  In the value field, enter true.  Add a comment if you wish.

Click on the Invoke button to add the property.

Now restart your managed servers.  Viola!

Olivier describes it as:

A graphical user interface to test OBR without having to deploy anything anywhere.

You can find details and download the tool here.  If you are using Business Rules, I would highly recommend checking this out.

I have blogged (this time) on bpmtech on the above topic.

Happy coding.

Let us take this opportunity again to thank you all for visiting and we hope you found something useful here!

For now, my endeavour was to use the Activity Guide APIs to generate the data seen on the workspace Activity Guide tab. This is hopefully useful for customers who want to write their custom UI equivalent to the default Activity Guide tab off the default BPM workspace.  The screenshot is below. Please notice that my BPM process has two milestones and one Human Task under each milestone.

Assuming you have gotten the workflow context etc., fastforwarding to the meat of the issue: Using the PS4FP Activity Guide APIs, one needs to:

• Get all Activity Guide instances for a given user (API call: agQuerySvc.queryAGDisplayInfos)
• Iterate through the list of AGDisplayInfos and get an AGInstanceId
• For each AGInstance Id, get the agDisplayInfo (agQuerySvc.getAGDisplayInfoDetailsById)
• For each AGInstance Id, get the corresponding milestone (agDisplayInfo.getMilestoneDisplayInfo)
• For each Milestone, get the taskList in that milestone (milestoneDisplayInfo.getTaskDisplayInfo)
• For each task, fetch details, say status and title in this example (taskDisp1.getTask)

I have used the standard workflow java sample in Authenticate.java and enhanced it for this purpose. That is an easy starting point!
Please note the following in that context:
1. The build.xml needs another few jar files other than the one that is packaged with workflow java samples
2. As usual, the wf_client_config has connection details.
3. The bpm project MultipleTasks Project has 2 human tasks have been created, 2 milestones and each of these tasks belong to 1 milestone. The Process.Owner role is granted to jstein after deployment.

While the AGAPIs for PS4FP have been documented, please note that there are a few documentation bugs currently being worked on, including on the sample therein.
Caveat: Some code refactoring in terms of moving some constants to different jar files is expected. And so, the jars referenced here are likely to change in PS5 and beyond.

I am going to try putting the source code: The BPM Process and the java code on java.net..(If for whatever reason I cant, I will be sure to blog source code here soon…)

Happy exploring AG APIs.

(Editing post for source code etc. below)

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.List;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.WorkflowException;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.IWorkflowServiceClient;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.IWorkflowServiceClientConstants;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.WorkflowServiceClientFactory;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.query.ITaskQueryService;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.impl.TaskUtil;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.model.Task;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.verification.IWorkflowContext;

import oracle.bpel.services.bpm.common.IBPMContext;

import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.IWorkflowConstants;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.model.Task;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.verification.IWorkflowContext;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.query.impl.TaskQueryService;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.WorkflowServiceClientContext;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.metadata.config.ResourceBundleInfo;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.IAGQueryService;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.impl.AGQueryUtil;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.*;
//import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.impl.AGQueryService;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.model.AGDisplayInfo;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.model.MilestoneDisplayInfo;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.metadata.IAGMetadataService;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.metadata.impl.AGMetadataService;
import com.oracle.bpel.activityguide.instance.model.MilestoneInstanceType;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.model.TaskDisplayInfoType;
import sun.security.util.Password;

import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.repos.Ordering;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.repos.Predicate;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.repos.TableConstants;

import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.IWorkflowConstants;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.IWorkflowServiceClient;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.IWorkflowServiceClientConstants;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.client.WorkflowServiceClientFactory;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.repos.Ordering;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.repos.Predicate;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.repos.TableConstants;

import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.repos.PredicateConstants;

import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.model.Task;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.verification.IWorkflowContext;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.model.AGDisplayInfo;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.activityguide.query.model.MilestoneDisplayInfoType;
import com.oracle.bpel.activityguide.instance.model.MilestoneInstanceTypeImpl;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.model.Task;
import oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.model.TaskType;

public class Authenticate
{

private static IWorkflowContext ctx;
 private static ITaskQueryService querySvc ;
 private static IWorkflowServiceClient wfSvcClient;
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 if (args.length != 3 || !("SOAP".equals(args[0]) || "REMOTE".equals(args[0]))) {
   System.out.print("Usage java Authenticate protocol(SOAP/REMOTE) user(jcooper) password(welcome1)");
   return;
 }
 authenticate(args[0], args[1], args[2]);
}

public static void authenticate(String protocol, String user, String password)
 throws WorkflowException {

System.out.println("Authenticating user " + user + ".....");

Map<IWorkflowServiceClientConstants.CONNECTION_PROPERTY, String> properties =
 new HashMap<IWorkflowServiceClientConstants.CONNECTION_PROPERTY, String>();
 //added below and commented out from wfclientconfig.xml
 properties.put(IWorkflowServiceClientConstants.CONNECTION_PROPERTY.EJB_SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "weblogic");//weblogic username
 properties.put(IWorkflowServiceClientConstants.CONNECTION_PROPERTY.EJB_SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "welcome1");//plain pwd

 // get the client
 //IWorkflowServiceClient wfSvcClient = WorkflowServiceClientFactory.getWorkflowServiceClient(protocol, properties, Util.getLogger());
 wfSvcClient = WorkflowServiceClientFactory.getWorkflowServiceClient(protocol, properties, Util.getLogger());
 querySvc = wfSvcClient.getTaskQueryService();
 // IWorkflowContext ctx = querySvc.authenticate(user, password.toCharArray(), "jazn.com");
 IWorkflowContext ctx = querySvc.authenticate(user, password.toCharArray(), "jazn.com");
 if (ctx == null)
 {
   System.out.println("ctx is null");
 } else {
   System.out.println("Authenticated successfully");
   System.out.println("Authenticated user info from IWorkflowContext:");
   System.out.println("Context created time: " + (new Date(ctx.getStartDateTime())));
   System.out.println("User: " + ctx.getUser());
   System.out.println("User Time Zone: " + ctx.getTimeZone().getDisplayName());
   System.out.println("User Locale: " + ctx.getLocale());
 }

 try{
   //calling testquery
   testQueryAGDisplayInfos();
 }
 catch (Exception eee){
   System.out.println("error");
   eee.printStackTrace();
 }

 }

private static void testQueryAGDisplayInfos()
 throws Exception
 {
   List agQueryColumns = new ArrayList();
   // agQueryColumns.add("MILESTONE_STATE");
   // agQueryColumns.add("DEFINITION_ID");
   //List agQueryColumns = new ArrayList();
   agQueryColumns.add("IDENTIFICATION_KEY");
   agQueryColumns.add("TITLE");
   agQueryColumns.add("CREATOR");
   agQueryColumns.add("CREATION_DATE");
   agQueryColumns.add("STATUS");
   IAGQueryService agQuerySvc = wfSvcClient.getAGQueryService();
   System.out.println("after AGQuerySVC");
   //Ordering order = new Ordering(TableConstants.WFTASK_INSTANCEID_COLUMN, false, true);

   // Query for all AG instances belonging to user say jstein
   List agDisplayInfoList =
   agQuerySvc.queryAGDisplayInfos(IAGQueryService.AG_PROCESS_TYPE_BPM, ctx,
   new ArrayList(),
   IAGQueryService.AGAssignmentFilter.ADMIN,
   null, //agPredicate,
   null, //ordering,
   0,
   0);

   List taskList=null;
   for (int a=0; a<agDisplayInfoList.size();a++)
   {
     String instanceId = ((AGDisplayInfo) agDisplayInfoList.get(a)).getInstanceId();
     //AGDisplayInfo agDisplayInfo = (AGDisplayInfo) agDisplayInfoList.get(a);
     AGDisplayInfo agDisplayInfo = agQuerySvc.getAGDisplayInfoDetailsById(IAGQueryService.AG_PROCESS_TYPE_BPM,
     ctx,
     new Long(instanceId), new ArrayList(),
     IAGQueryService.AGASSIGNMENT_FILTER_ADMIN);
     System.out.println("******for AGInstancID :"+instanceId+"********");

     System.out.println("AG title:" + agDisplayInfo.getTitle());

     System.out.println("milestone display info list size:" + agDisplayInfo.getMilestoneDisplayInfo().size());
     //MilestoneDisplayInfo msDisplayInfo = (MilestoneDisplayInfo)agDisplayInfo.getMilestoneDisplayInfo();

     for (int i=0; i< agDisplayInfo.getMilestoneDisplayInfo().size(); i++)
     {
       MilestoneDisplayInfo milestoneDisplayInfo = ((MilestoneDisplayInfo) agDisplayInfo.getMilestoneDisplayInfo().get(i));
       System.out.println("-----------------for milestone name :"+milestoneDisplayInfo.getTitle()+"---------");

       System.out.println("Milestone title: " + milestoneDisplayInfo.getTitle());
       System.out.println("Milestone Name: " + milestoneDisplayInfo.getName());

       List<TaskDisplayInfoType> taskDisplayInfoList = milestoneDisplayInfo.getTaskDisplayInfo();
       System.out.println("Total number of tasks: " + taskDisplayInfoList.size());
       for(int j=0; j< taskDisplayInfoList.size();j++)
       {

         TaskDisplayInfoType taskDisp1 = taskDisplayInfoList.get(j);
         TaskType task1 = taskDisp1.getTask();
         System.out.println("^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^for task Id:"+task1.getSystemAttributes().getTaskNumber()+"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^");
         System.out.println("Task Status: "+task1.getSystemAttributes().getState());
         System.out.println("Task Title: "+task1.getTitle());

       } //taskDisplayInfoList

     } //MilestoneDisplayInfoList
   } //agDisplayInfoList
 } //method
} //class

Note: the classes in build.xml (for the most part the same as in the Workflow Java samples)

<path id="client.classpath">
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/wlfullclient.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/wlclient.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/oracle_common/webservices/wsclient_extended.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/Oracle_SOA1/soa/modules/oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1/bpm-infra.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/Oracle_SOA1/soa/modules/oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1/fabric-runtime.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/Oracle_SOA1/soa/modules/oracle.soa.workflow_11.1.1/bpm-services.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/Oracle_SOA1/soa/modules/soa-startup.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${bea.home}/Oracle_SOA1/soa/modules/oracle.soa.bpel_11.1.1/orabpel.jar"/>

<pathelement path="./config"/>
 </path>

Note: wf_client_config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <workflowServicesClientConfiguration xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/services/client">
 <server default="true" name="default">
 <localClient>
 <participateInClientTransaction>false</participateInClientTransaction>
 </localClient>
 <remoteClient>
 <serverURL>t3://localhost:7001</serverURL>
 <!--userName>jstein</userName>
 <password encrypted="true">4tORP+F+3jNupTEwSeZj3A==</password-->
 <initialContextFactory>weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory</initialContextFactory>
 <participateInClientTransaction>false</participateInClientTransaction>
 </remoteClient>
 </server>
 </workflowServicesClientConfiguration>

This is basically the same as the last version of the sample, just recompiled for the new release of BPM.  I am planning to add some significant new functionality to the sample to coincide with BPM 11.1.1.7.

I am also working on a C#/.Net version of the worklist.  See some details here if you are interested.