Split Join in OSB

This article is from the excellent Blog by oraclefusion1011.

See complete article here - http://oraclefusion1011.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html . It is reproduced here for easy reference only. This is one of an interesting feature in OSB , however if you know how FlowN works in Bpel this will appears to be same. Use Case: Orders -> Multiple Items Services : 1. Get each Item Status (Instock/outStock) 2. Get Order Status. Now split join splits the input request to multiple threads and executes parallely. Like in this case for an Order with 10 items , 10 threads will get spawned. Resources: XSD : Order/Item Element WSDL : for ItemStatus Service and Order Status service Bpel : Implement the getItemStatus service for inividual item OSB : 1. create a project for split join 2. Import XSD and both WSDl While importing wsdl it may create xsd as well , update the source with imported xsd from xsd folder and then delete the created one. 3. Create a Buss Service based on Item WSDL (get url from EM), this will be invoked as part of split join http://localhost:8001/soainfra/services/default/SplitJoinRrcs/getitemstatusbpel_client_ep?WSDL 4. Create split join based on getOrderStatus Service , select operation. - It will create Receive and Reply activity and request and response variables as well - initialize the response variable by adding an assign action , Put this Assign action right after Receive <ord:Order xmlns:ord="http://pchanel/Orders"> </ord:Order> - add a ForEach Flow Control to iterate each item in Order parallel = yes

counter var = loop start counter = 1 final counter = count($request.payload/Items) - Add invoke service for the check Item status for each Item inside for each Before invoke and inside scope --------------------------------------------- create input/output scope variable for the service invoke - Add another var "Param" to pass the value to the Service - Add assign action inside the for each , initialize input variable for service <ord:Item xmlns:ord="http://pchanel/Orders"> </ord:Item> - Add copy operation to copy items to Param from exp : $request.payload/Items[$loop] to exp : $Param.payload - Add replace to replace the service input with Param Replace "." in input.payload with Exp : $Param.payload Replace entire node --------------------------------------------- After the service invoke add Insert Exp : $output.payload LOcation : as first chil of Xpath : . Variable : response.payload 5. Right click split join.flow -> OSB -> Generate BS Thats it split join is done !! This is how it will look like in eclipse: