On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Luis Miguel Silva < [email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Denis, > > Thank you for your reply. > I did now my deploy.xml was incomplete, but Eclipse's BPEL editor did > not allow me to fill it in (directly using the editor) and that is why > i was feeling kind of lost. > > Thank you for your example. > > I would also like to ask you what do you mean by having that external > web service stored locally? Do you mean i have to download the WSDL > for all external web services and reference them using local WSDL > files? > Yp, IIRC, the WSDLs need to be local. > > Thank you! > Luis > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Denis Weerasiri <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Luis, > > I looked in to the attached bpel. > > First I looked into the deploy.xml. It contains no elements like > <provide/> > > <invoke/> elements. Every partner link used with a <receive /> activity > must > > be matched with a <provide /> element, and every partnerLink used in an > <invoke > > /> activity must be matched with an <invoke /> element in deploy.xml. > > Without a deploy.xml, a BPEL engine cannot figure the concrete level > details > > of the partner services. In the deploy.xml, the <service /> element > > determines the concrete level details of all the partner services that > > interacts with the BPEL process. > > > > eg - > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <deploy xmlns="http://www.apache.org/ode/schemas/dd/2007/03"; > > xmlns:FunctionProcess.bpel="http://FunctionProcess.bpel"; > > xmlns:FunctionProcessService.wsdl=" > http://FunctionProcessService.wsdl"; > > xmlns:AdderService.wsdl="http://AdderService.wsdl"; > > xmlns:MultiplierService.wsdl="http://MultiplierService.wsdl"; > > xmlns:SquareService.wsdl="http://SquareService.wsdl";> > > <process name="FunctionProcess.bpel:FunctionProcess"> > > <process-events generate="all"/> > > <provide partnerLink="FunctionProcessPartnerLink"> > > <service > name="FunctionProcessService.wsdl:FunctionProcessServiceService" > > port="FunctionProcessServicePort"/> > > </provide> > > <invoke partnerLink="SquarePartnerLink"> > > <service name="SquareService.wsdl:SquareService" > > port="SquareServiceSOAP11port_http"/> > > </invoke> > > </process> > > </deploy> > > > > So the http://services.sapo.pt/Metadata/Contract/ADSL?culture=PT also > should > > be stored locally. > > > > There may be other issues as well. > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Luis Miguel Silva < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I just found out about Apache ODE this week and i've been extremely > >> excited for its capabilities! (so i would like to start by > >> congratulating and showing my appreciation by all the developers :o)). > >> > >> I've been playing around with Eclipse BPEL and was able to deploy a > >> sample "hello world" program (following this tutorial -> > >> http://www.eclipse.org/bpel/users/pdf/HelloWorld-BPELDesignerAndODE.pdf > ) > >> but i have a lot of questions on how to interface with an actual > >> external web service. > >> I've been reading a lot and could not find a good top / down example > >> on how to interface with an external web service, use multiple input > >> variables and multiple output variables, as well as how to convert > >> between different types [i.e. i get a boolean result but want to shove > >> it into a string] (i know i'll have to use xPATH to do it but it is > >> still not clear to me how it works as, even just using the Eclipse > >> BPEL designer, i still get a lot of bizarre errors). > >> > >> I ended up creating a very simple project with an if statement that > >> tries to understand the value of the boolean variable and correctly > >> populate the string one and, although Eclipse does not complain about > >> any errors, the Apache ODE Deployment Descriptor does not seem to > >> recognize the WDSL definitions for my project...ARGH! > >> "Description Resource Path Location Type > >> No grammar constraints (DTD or XML schema) detected for the > >> document. deploy.xml /myproject/bpelContent line 1 XML > Problem > >> " > >> It's also not entirely clear to me what the difference is between a > >> global or local variable / partner link? > >> > >> Does anybody know any good tutorials that go into a little more detail > >> than the one i mentioned above? > >> I'm interested in learning to both use the Eclipse BPEL designer and > >> defining the BPEL packages myself. > >> > >> I've attached my sample project to this email. I would be extremely > >> grateful if someone can help me understand what am i doing wrong and > >> point me on the right direction! > >> This project just tries to consume an external web service (as > >> described here -> > >> http://services.sapo.pt/Metadata/Contract/ADSL?culture=PT) and return > >> "true" or "false" based on that service's reply. > >> I would really love to see a couple of more complex examples on how to > >> throw exceptions, conditions, passing a variable number of inputs > >> (which is another thing i DO NOT understand how to do), etc. > >> > >> Thanks a lot my friends, > >> Luis Silva > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Denis > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > *Denis Weerasiri* > > <http://wso2.com/>**** <http://wso2.com/>* blog: ** > > http://ddweerasiri.blogspot.com* <http://ddweerasiri.blogspot.com/>* > > twitter: **http://twitter.com/ddweerasiri* < > http://twitter.com/ddweerasiri>* > > linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/ddweerasiri*< > http://lk.linkedin.com/in/ddweerasiri> > > > -- Thanks, Denis ---------------------------------------------------------- *Denis Weerasiri* <http://wso2.com/>**** <http://wso2.com/>* blog: ** http://ddweerasiri.blogspot.com* <http://ddweerasiri.blogspot.com/>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/ddweerasiri* <http://twitter.com/ddweerasiri>* linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/ddweerasiri*<http://lk.linkedin.com/in/ddweerasiri>
