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Overview

Creating and Using Custom Invoke Handlers

Overview

This is a three part series that covers the full range of functionality associated with creating custom invoke handlers for the ActiveBPEL family of servers.

Part One: Fundamentals

This sample is an introduction to replacing the ActiveBPEL server's standard invocation mechanism of SOAP over HTTP with a custom invocation mechanism when calling partner-provided Web services.

Part one is available here.

Part Two: Advanced Concepts

This sample explores more advanced topics of the custom invoke handler including multiple operations, complex message types, and returning faults.

Part two is available here.

Part Three: Distributed Custom Invoke Handlers

This sample will re-create the custom invoke handler for the ApproveLoan service created in part one as an Enterprise JavaBean and understand how to configure and deploy this to ActiveBPEL Enterprise running in a full J2EE application server.

Part three is available here.