Preface

This manual describes how to use Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

This preface contains the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This manual is intended for anyone who is interested in using Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following Oracle resources:

• Oracle BPEL Process Manager Quick Start Guide

• Oracle BPEL Process Manager Order Booking Tutorial

• Oracle Adapters for Files, FTP, Databases, and Enterprise Messaging User's Guide

• Oracle Application Server Adapter Concepts

• Oracle Application Server Adapter for Oracle Applications User's Guide

Printed documentation is available for sale in the Oracle Store at

http://oraclestore.oracle.com/

To download free release notes, installation documentation, white papers, or other collateral, visit the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). You must register online before using OTN; registration is free and can be done at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/membership/

To download Oracle BPEL Process Manager documentation, technical notes, or other collateral, visit the Oracle BPEL Process Manager site at Oracle Technology Network (OTN):

http://www.oracle.com/technology/bpel/

If you already have a username and password for OTN, then you can go directly to the documentation section of the OTN Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/

See the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services Specification, available at the following URL:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbizspec/html/bpel1-1.asp

See the XML Path Language (XPath) Specification, available at the following URL:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116

See the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 Specification, available at the following URL:

http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: