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A recent posting on
Oracle Warehouse Builder prompted some questions from readers on the process of
integrating Oracle Workflow with Oracle Warehouse Builder; this integration has
also been a ‘hot topic’ on the OTN
OWB Forum. The OWB documentation stops short of explaining how workflow
jobs, created using OWB9.2 and deployed using the Deployment Manager, are
actually submitted and run using Oracle Workflow, and therefore Sonia
Brown put together some notes on how this integration is achieved. 

• OWB
  9.2 Process Flow and Workflow Integration Guide

The document covers the following steps, with a number of screenshots to
illustrate the process;

• Installing Oracle Workflow Server
• Edit init.ora file 
• Start Oracle Universall Installer for Oracle Database 9.2 
• Install and configure Web Server 
• Workflow web interface virtual directory mappings 
• Installing Workflow help documents 
• Set up a directory service for Oracle Workflow 
• Verify your base URL 
• Implement Oracle Internet Directory integration (optional) 
• Implement Single Sign-On integration (optional)
• Installing Additional Languages
• Installing Workflow Builder Client (Optional) 
• Installation 
• OWB Configuration Settings 
• Create Workflow Location 
• Create a Process Flow using Workflow Location 
• Set Properties of a Process Flow 
• Deploy the Process Flow 
• Process Flows using Workflow Server 
• Launch process 
• View Process Information 
• Oracle Workflow Builder Import (Optional) 
• Process Flow Import

There’s also a viewlet
available on OTN, that shows how Oracle Enterprise Manager can be used to
run the resultant Oracle Workflow processes; one thing to be aware of is that
the preferred database user credentials must be those of the Runtime Access
User, whilst the Runtime Owner’s details are used in the properties page.

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