Hi, I am working on a project in which we are currently evaluating and trying to make some prototypes using different BPEL engines in conjunction with JBI, and ODE and ServiceMix have risen to the top as our best options. So we are trying to create a sample BPEL process running inside of ServiceMix which does the following: 1) Exposes an external "composite" web service for clients to call. 2) Calls in turn one or more "core" web services or other JBI components.
I am close to having an example of this sort working following the documentation on apache.org and the examples in $ODE_HOME/examples/. Here is my problem: On the page http://ode.apache.org/user-guide.html under the Getting Started -> In JBI section, there is a section called "JBI Endpoints". This section references a "deployment descriptor" based on the namespace "http://pxe.fivesight.com/schemas/2006/02/14/bpeldd";. This appears to be the deployment descriptor which will allow one to expose internal JBI components to the BPEL engine to be invoked from it. However, on the rest of this page, there are many more references to a "deployment descriptor, "deploy.xml", based on the "http://www.apache.org/ode/schemas/dd/2007/03"; namespace which contains information about the BPEL Partner Links but doesnt seem to have any references to the "endpoint-refs" of the first schema. So my questions are: 1) Can someone clear up the confusion with the deployment descriptors? Are 2 deployment descriptors necessary. If so, can someone point me to an example using the "http://pxe.fivesight.com/schemas/2006/02/14/bpeldd"; based deployment descriptor? 2) What is the proper way to call a JBI endpoint from a BPEL process? I have seen plenty of examples of calling a BPEL process from a SOAP/HTTP endpoint, but not the other way around. Any examples available? Thanks for any help! David - David McWhorter, Software Engineer, SAIC
