Using Events and Timeouts in BPEL Processes

15 Using Events and Timeouts in BPEL Processes

This chapter describes how to use events and timeouts. It describes how to create a pick activity to select to continue a process or wait, set timeouts for request-response operations on receive activities, create wait activities to set an expiration time, create OnEvent branches in BPEL 2.0 to wait for message arrival, set timeouts on synchronous processes, and invoke an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler job in a BPEL process.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Introduction to Event and Timeout Concepts
Selecting Between Continuing or Waiting on a Process with a Pick Activity
Setting Timeouts for Request-Reply and In-Only Operations in Receive Activities
Setting an Expiration Time with a Wait Activity
Specifying Events to Wait for Message Arrival with an OnEvent Branch in BPEL 2.0
Setting Timeouts for Durable Synchronous Processes
Invoking an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job in a BPEL Process