Generate BPEL for Apache ODE & Using soapUI

Generate BPEL - Part 5. Generate BPEL for Apache ODE & Using soapUI

Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) is defacto standard of designing business process. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is popular language for workflow engine to execute workflow. This tutorial teaches how to generate BPEL from BPMN's business process diagram and WSDL diagram.

September 16, 2009
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< Part 4. Create Shipping Service Business Process Diagram

Download apache tomcat 6.x at the following URL
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
Unpack the tomcat.
Specify JAVA_HOME in catalina.bat (in case you don't have JAVA_HOME environment variable specified).
Download the ODE package at the following URL
http://ode.apache.org/getting-ode.html
Unpack ODE package, and copy the ode.war into %tomcat%/webapps folder.
Startup tomcat by execute command catalina start in command prompt. You should see the ode folder created under webapps once its being deployed.
Go to CustomerService business process diagram.
Right click on blank are of the diagram, select Utilities > Generate BPEL.
Specify the output location for the BPEL (i.e. c:\BPEL\CustomerService). A message BPEL Generated Successfully indicate the BPEL for CustomerService has been generated.
Copy the generated BPEL (entire CustomerService folder) to %tomcat%/webapps/ode/WEB-INF/processes folder.
Open the URL http://localhost:8080/ode/processes.html, and you can see the CustomerService process is running.
Generate BPEL for ShippingService business process diagram.
Once the BPEL for ShippingService has been generated, copy the CustomerService.wsdl from the CustomerService BPEL to ShippingService folder.
Copy the ShippingService folder to the %tomcat%/webapps/ode/WEB-INF/process folder.
Refresh the URL in browser, now you will see the ShippingService process is also up and running.
Download the soapUI package at following URL:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui/files/soapui/3.0.1
Unpack the soapUI package and go to the bin folder.
Specify JAVA_HOME in soapui.bat in case you don't have this environment variable in your system (need to use JRE 1.6).
Execute soapui.bat, and create a new soapUI project.
Specify the URL http://localhost:8080/ode/processes/ShippingService?wsdl in the initial WSDL/WADL field. Press OK.
Open the Request1 under ShippingServicesSOAP12Binding > ship, then specify the OrderID as 10, and ProductID as 20.
Press the Submit button at the top left hand corner of Request1.
Go back to the browser and switch to Instance tab, now you can see new instance of the ShippingService is running.