BPEL and Java Cookbook

Using the XSLT transformation in BPEL

In this recipe, we will show the usage of the Transform activity in JDeveloper. The XSLT mapping activity is exposed as the Oracle extension activity in JDeveloper.

Getting ready

Before we start with the recipe, we prepare an empty SOA composite project with the default synchronous BPEL process. We reuse the web service for querying about the available car. The input parameter presents a from-to date range, and the output of the web service call returns the available car at the specified date range. We also add the following two <assign> activities:

• The first one assigns the request data to the input variable of the web service
• The second one assigns the response from the web service to the response of the BPEL ...