Need some help with BPEl invoking another service (define and pass the data from one to the other)

[Matt Kohanek]

Hey there

I have not worked much with bpels, but I am working on an already existing one right now. Trying to have it invoke a separate web service.

So in the .bpel and .composite file I have added the service wsdl info and created the connections, so in my .bpel file I have the <invoke> element auto generated.

It looks like:

<invoke name="Invoke_SOA_MetaData_NIC"
                            partnerLink="NiMetadataService"
                            portType="ns17:NiMetadataService"
                            operation="getNiMetadataValue"
                            inputVariable="Invoke_SOA_MetaData_NIC_getNiMetadataValue_InputVariable"
                            outputVariable="Invoke_SOA_MetaData_NIC_getNiMetadataValue_OutputVariable"/>

I am trying to figure out how I define the data that gets fed into the invocation of that service. I need it to receive data that looks like this:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    <soap:Body xmlns:ns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/NiMetadataService">
        <ns1:niMetadataRequest>
            <ns1:appShortName></ns1:appShortName>
            <ns1:progShortName>NI_MATT_TEST</ns1:progShortName>
            <ns1:valueUsedBy>VALUE</ns1:valueUsedBy>
            <ns1:settingName>RESP_ID</ns1:settingName>
            <ns1:site></ns1:site>
            <ns1:org></ns1:org>
        </ns1:niMetadataRequest>
    </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

I will worry about parsing the return and assigning it later. For now I just want to add whatever is needed to invoke the service using that data. I have read some jdev stuff online, but have not found what I need just yet. So before I leave for the day I wanted to create this thread in hopes I can speed up the learning process.