Extension ID

com.castsoftware.bpel

What's new?

Please see BPEL 2.2 - Release Notes for more information.

Description 

This extension provides support for applications using BPELscript (Business Process Execution Language script).

In what situation should you install this extension?

This extension should be installed when you want to analyze an application that uses BPELscript and WSDL service files.

BPELscript is a language used to specify BPEL processes. It provides a compact syntax inspired by scripting languages such as JavaScript and Ruby and offers a full coverage of all features provided by BPEL. A BPEL process specifies in which order Web services should be invoked. This means that when a BPEL process receives a request, it will invoke the appropriate Web services to fulfil the request and then responds back to the requester. It is also possible that a Web service can depend on previously invoked Web services.

Function Point, Quality and Sizing support

This extension provides the following support:

• Function Points (transactions): a green tick indicates that OMG Function Point counting and Transaction Risk Index are supported
• Quality and Sizing: a green tick indicates that CAST can measure size and that a minimum set of Quality Rules exist

Function Points (transactions)	Quality and Sizing

CAST AIP compatibility

This Technology Plug-in is compatible with:

CAST AIP release	Supported
8.3.x
8.2.x

Supported DBMS servers

This extension is compatible with the following DBMS servers:

DBMS	Supported
CSS/PostgreSQL
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server

Supported file types

Download and installation instructions

Include the extension using the interface in AIP Console:

There is nothing further to do. Follow the instructions below to run a new analysis/snapshot to generate new results:

• Advanced onboarding - run and validate the initial analysis
• Advanced onboarding - snapshot generation and validation

Source code discovery

A discoverer is provided with the extension to automatically detect BPEL code: when a .bpel file is found in a folder, one "BPEL" project will be discovered, resulting in a corresponding Analysis Unit in AIP Console.

What results can you expect?

Once the analysis/snapshot generation has completed, you can view the results in the normal manner.

CAST Enlighten

Example of BPEL Invoke, Process and Receive:

Click to enlarge

Dependency to Java

Links will be created where there is a dependency with Java source code. Take the following two examples:

Example 1

Java embedded in BPEL source code:

<bpws:invoke name="Vorinitialisierung" operation="null" partnerLink="null" portType="wpc:null" wpc:continueOnError="inherit" wpc:displayName="Vorinitialisierung" wpc:id="45">
      <wpc:script>
        <wpc:javaCode>
           <![CDATA[
           commonj.sdo.DataObject dO = (commonj.sdo.DataObject)SIInputDataWrapper.getDataObject("SGMIMPORT")
           commonj.sdo.DataObject ordnungsbegriffTypFeld = dO.getDataObject("DOKIMPORT[1]/DOKREF/CONTENTPARAM/VORGREF[1]/KEY");
           styp = ordnungsbegriffTypFeld.getString("styp");
           vorgangsnummer =  dO.getDataObject("DOKIMPORT[1]/DOKREF/CONTENTPARAM/VORGREF[1]/KEY").getString(0);]
          ]>
         </wpc:javaCode>
      </wpc:script>
</bpws:invoke>

Corresponding Java source code:

Resulting link from BEPL to Java method:

Example 2

BPEL Web Service invoking web services:

<bpws:invoke name="InvokeSDPOrderDBretrieveBaseOrder" operation="retrieveBaseOrder" partner-Link="SDPOrderDBCompensableService_InterfacePartner" portType="ns3:SDPOrderDBCompensableService_Interface" wpc:continueOnError="inherit" wpc:displayName="InvokeSDPOrderDB.retrieveBaseOrder" wpc :id="72">
      <wpc:input>
        <wpc:parameter name="order" variable="processingOrder"/>
      </wpc:input>
      <wpc:output>
  ...
</bpws:invoke>

Resulting link from BEPL to web service:

Objects 

The following specific objects are displayed in CAST Enlighten:

Links

Call links

• BPEL Receive > BPEL Process

• BPEL Invoke > BPEL Receive

• BPEL Process > BPEL Invoke

Rules

None.

Limitations

• Invokes inside Pick activities are not currently created. Their modelization (together with onMessage and onAlarm elements) will be considered in forthcoming releases.