So what you're saying, Nelson, is that if something like this is required, it also has to be exposed as a web service and that there's no other way?
Nelson Andrés Alvarez Salcedo wrote: > > El 21/07/2009 9:30, kodeninja escribió: >> Howdy, >> >> If I want to read/write some stuff from/to a DB/File from within a BPEL >> process, should that also be exposed as web service to my process, or is >> there a way to write, say, some custom Java code that can talk directly >> to >> concerned entity? I'm trying to find out what kind customizations/hooks a >> BPEL supports? >> >> When I search for this stuff online, most of the links returned are from >> Oracle, where they talk about writing Adapters for achieving the above. >> Are >> adapters some standard BPEL stuff? >> >> Thanks, >> -Kodeninja >> >> >> > You should consider the elements you manage in the BPEL process as > *basic services*. Following this point of view, a BPEL process should > only interact with exposed services and it was, as far as i know, > designed to work that way. BPEL orchestrates (tells everyone what to do > and when to do it, even integrating human tasks into the process) and > its XML speech means that it talks to services through XML messages. > > Hope I make myself clear while trying to be helpful. > -- > Nelson Álvarez Salcedo > /"Verba volant, scripta manent"/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Reading-from-a-DB-File-in-a-BPEL-process-tp24588737p24589123.html Sent from the Apache Ode User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
