External Components

With BPM Studio you can leverage external APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), services and data sources. To use external components in your processes you must first include them into your project catalog.

Cataloging services from different technologies into BPM components provides your project with a common programming model, freeing developers from the integration and conversion details between otherwise incompatible technologies. For example, you can read data from a Web Service, process it using an external .Net component and store the results on a database using a SQL component.

• .NET Components
  You can catalog .NET components and use them in your BPM project. Microsoft® .NET is a multi-language software development and execution framework for Microsoft Windows.
• COM Components
  You can catalog COM components and use them in your BPM project. COM components are software programs that use the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM).
• CORBA Components
  You can catalog CORBA components and use them in your BPM project. Studio allows you to catalog CORBA objects that reside in a CORBA Interface Repository.
• EJB Components
  You can catalog EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) components and use them in your BPM project.
• JNDI Components
  You can catalog directory services using JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) to query, retrieve, delete, and add entries.
• Java Components
  You can catalog Java class libraries (.jar files) and use them on your BPM project. Use Java components to integrate with external APIs or leverage Java code from your BPM project.
• Oracle Service Bus Components
  You can catalog bus services and use them in your BPM project. Oracle Service Bus (formerly AquaLogic Service Bus or ALSB) is a repository for business services exposed as web services.
• SAP Components
  You can catalog standard SAP interfaces to integrate your BPM processes with mySAP Business Suite.
• SQL Components
  You can catalog SQL tables, views and store procedures. Use SQL components from your processes and BPM objects to query, update and execute SQL statements on external databases.
• SQL Query Components
  You can catalog predefined SQL queries as components in your project catalog.
• Web Service Components
  You can catalog SOAP Web Services from a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) definition and use them in your BPM project. Use Web Service components to integrate with external systems using the SOAP standard.
• XML Schema Components
  You can catalog XML Schema Definitions (XSD) components and use them in your BPM project. Use XML Schema components for parsing, validating, manipulating and generating typed XML documents.