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Saturday, January 10, 2015

How To Start a Case in Oracle Adaptive Case Management 12c. Blog reader was asking to describe how to start a new case in Oracle ACM 12c. You can read my previous blog post on ACM 12c topic - Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF Human Tasks. There are multiple ways to start a case, depends if you want just to test the case or really use it. I would recommend to use SoapUI to test the case. In the real scenario, case most likely will be started from third party web service or through ACM 12c Java API. Here I would like to describe, how you could use SoapUI to test ACM process during development.

Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF Human Tasks. I'm diving into the new topic - Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF integration. Today will be the first post in the category and there are more posts planned for the future. I strongly believe that ACM (Adaptive Case Management) makes a great extension for standard BPM. Mainly because it allows to define a loose process, without strict order steps. Process steps can be executed in different order, depending on the situation requirements, at given time. I will be explaining how to implement ADF Human Task for ACM activity and will share several tips, how to make it run in BPM Workspace application.

Lightweight ADF Task Flow for BPM Human Tasks Overview. We can customize and include available Oracle BPM Workspace task flows into our own ADF 11g application. Additionally to out-of-the-box task flows in Oracle BPM 11g, we can use Oracle BPM 11g Worklist API and build custom ADF task flows. While there can be different requirements and scenarios, in typical case I would suggest to use customized out of the box Oracle BPM 11g provided task flows for core requirements and additionally implement your own custom task flows based on available Worklist API. Most likely custom task flows based on Worklist API would cover less functional, but more lightweight requirements.

Tips & Tricks How to Run Oracle BPM 11g PS5 Workspace from Custom ADF 11g Application. Oracle BPM 11g PS5 Task List task flow can be included into custom ADF 11g application. This task flow can be executed in 2 modes - worklist and workspace. I already blogged about worklist mode, see here - ADF 11g PS5 Application with Customized BPM Worklist Task Flow (MDS Seeded Customization). Today I'm going to cover different tips & tricks how to run Task List task flow in workspace mode. Workspace mode gives more functionality to the end user - it allows to render list of BPM processes, more dashboards, etc. User can start new BPM process through Task List task flow configured in workspace mode.

Running Oracle BPM 11g PS5 Worklist Task Flow and Human Task Form on Non-SOA Domain. With standard setup, both BPM worklist application and Human task form runs on the same SOA domain, where BPM process is running. While this work fine, this is not what we want in development, test and production environment. Mainly because BPM worklist and Human task form are ADF artificats, its easier to develop and run in production from different server. I will describe in this post how to run both BPM worklist application and Human task form on different non-SOA domain.

ADF 11g PS5 Application with Customized BPM Worklist Task Flow (MDS Seeded Customization). What is great about Oracle BPM - it offers reusable ADF Task Flows to handle BPM Worklist functionality. BPM ADF Task Flows are consumed from standard BPM Worklist application, from WebCenter and same ADF Task Flows can be consumed from custom ADF application (so, you don't need to run WebCenter for this). Here is documentation chapter, it explains all step by step how to integrated BPM ADF Task Flows into custom ADF application - Creating Custom ADF Applications with Oracle Business Process Management Workspace Task Flows.