Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer's Guide

A simple composite service

Despite the fact that BPEL is intended primarily for writing long running processes, it also provides an excellent way to build a composite service, that is, a service that is assembled from other services.

Let's take a simple example: say I have a service that gives me the stock quote for a specified company, and that I also have a service that gives me the exchange rate between two currencies. I can use BPEL to combine these two services and provide a service that gives the stock quote for a company in the currency of my choice.

So let's create our stock quote service, we will create a simple synchronous BPEL process which takes two parameters, the stock ticker and the required currency. This will then call two external ...