BPEL and Java Cookbook

Accessing the fields within the Message Type-based variables

This recipe explains how to access fields within Message Type-based variables. We will reuse the two sample BPEL processes from the previous recipe since the request and response messages and their corresponding variables present Message Type-based variables.

Getting ready

This recipe builds on the two BPEL processes we created in the previous recipe named Manipulate1_1 and Manipulate2_0.

How to do it…

This recipe will show you how to access fields in Message Type-based variables in a BPEL process:

1. Open the Manipulate1_1 BPEL process and add the assign activity (AssignMsgType).
2. We assign the content from the request message to the content of the response message. We are actually performing ...