Time for action – selecting the bookstore with the lowest quantity
In the previous chapter, we introduced three bookstores into our composite BPEL application, BookstoreA, BookstoreB, and AnotherBookstore. Let's now modify the conditions in the <if> activity, where we select the bookstore with the lowest book quantity. We have to compare three book quantities of stores in the BookstoreAResponse, BookstoreBResponse, and AnotherBookstoreResponse variables. To access the BookstoreAResponse quantity, we should use the following XPath expression:
$BookstoreAResponse.payload/ns1:StockQuantity
Similarly, we would access the BookstoreB and AnotherBookstore stock quantities.
To select the lowest quantity, we should do the following comparisons:
- Compare the ...
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