Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Scope
A Scope activity is to group activities and to define scope-specific variables and
handlers. A Scope activity can be nested within another Scope activity. This will re-
duce the complexity of BPEL service diagrams and will determine the life cycle of
BPEL variables.
A Scope activity is also used to handle exceptions. Exceptions occurred at any point
in a Scope activity can be handled by the scope's exception handler. If it is not
handled, it will propagate to the parent Scope activity, and so on.
As shown in the following screenshot, drag-and-drop the
Scope
activity from
JDeveloper's
Component Palette
:
After setting up the
Scope
activity, other activities can be added by dragging the
activitiesfromJDeveloper's
Component Palette
anddroppingonthe
Scope
activity,
as shown in the following screenshot. The
Scope
activity encapsulates the recover-
able unit of work and allows for separating business processes in to logically separ-
ate organized units:
