1. Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite
  2. Using the BPEL Process Service Component
  3. Using Events and Timeouts in BPEL Processes
  4. Invoking an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job in a BPEL Process

Invoking an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job in a BPEL Process

You can invoke an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler job in a BPEL process. An Oracle Enterprise Scheduler job is a unit of work in the form of either Java, a database stored procedure, or any executable. A job definition is associated with Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, which describes how to execute the job. An Oracle Enterprise Scheduler web service submits the job from within a BPEL process and associates a schedule with that job request.

The scheduled Oracle Enterprise Scheduler job resides in a runtime environment and is accessible with an Oracle Metadata Services Repository (MDS Repository) connection, using database-based access.

Note:

This section describes how to submit a job from a BPEL process, and not how to wait for the job to complete. If you want the BPEL process to wait for the job to complete, you must invoke the web service to request a callback when the job completes and then perform a receive to get the callback. For more information, see Chapter "Using the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Web Service" of Developing Applications for Oracle Enterprise Scheduler.