BPM specific configuration within server.properties

Once the "Informatica BPM" instance is up and running it's time to do the necessary configuration on Product 360 side. The configuration has to be done in the <P360_SERVER_INSTALLATION_ROOT>\configuration\HPM\server.properties file of the Product 360 server application.

The integration supports two communication strategies: REST and message queue. The direct REST communication is deprecated and will be removed in future versions. The message queue communication mode should be used for new installations.

The configuration properties of both strategies are different and documented in the following sections.

Message queue communication properties

Property name

Required

Default value

Description

infa.bpm.trigger.queue.ids

Yes

bpm

Comma separated list of queue ids, which are available in the trigger configuration. The first entry of this list represents the default response queue, which is used e.g. if a message from BPM does not specify any response queue id.

infa.bpm.consumer.serviceapi.queue.ids

Yes

serviceapi

Comma separated list of queue ids, for which a service API consumer is applied. This allows to define multiple service API consumer instances with different thread count and message selectors on the same physical queue.

com.heiler.ppm.bpm.server/proxy

No

Allows to track service API consumer requests using a proxy like Fiddler web debugger, example is localhost:8888

This property is disabled by default.

Message queue settings:

Property name

Required

Default value

Note

queue.bpm.type

Yes

${queue.default.type}

queue.bpm.writer.count

Yes

${queue.default.writer.count}

Number of threads which puts events on the physical message queue

queue.bpm.consumer.count

Yes

${queue.default.consumer.count}

queue.bpm.url

Yes

${queue.default.url}

queue.bpm.username

Yes

${queue.default.username}

queue.bpm.password

Yes

${queue.default.password}

queue.bpm.message.format

Yes

XML

XML is the only message format possible at the moment

queue.bpm.name

Yes

P360_BPM

Physical queue name with the system.name property as prefix

queue.bpm.label

Yes

BPM

Label shown in the trigger configuration view

queue.serviceapi.type

Yes

${queue.default.type}

queue.serviceapi.writer.count

Yes

${queue.default.writer.count}

queue.serviceapi.consumer.count

Yes

${queue.default.consumer.count}

Number of queue consumer threads which process events from the message queue

queue.serviceapi.url

Yes

${queue.default.url}

queue.serviceapi.username

Yes

${queue.default.username}

queue.serviceapi.password

Yes

${queue.default.password}

queue.serviceapi.message.format

Yes

XML

Can be JSON/XML

queue.serviceapi.name

Yes

P360_SERVICE_API

Physical queue name with the system.name property as prefix

queue.serviceapi.label

Yes

Service API

It is possible to define own queue configurations with custom queue ids. The syntax is queue.[queue id].*

To disable the prefix of physical queue names by the system.name property add following setting:

com.heiler.ppm.messagequeue.server/useSystemNamePrefix = false

General properties

Property name

Required

Default value

Description

infa.bpm.taskRefreshInterval

No

10

Time interval in seconds in which task update events are executed. This relates to task update events which are triggered by a call to workflow status updates.

REST communication properties

Property name

Required

Default value

Description

infa.bpm.base.url

Yes

http://localhost:8080/active-bpel

The base url to the Informatica BPM instance in the form
http://[server]:[port]/active-bpel

infa.bpm.workflows.path

Yes

services/REST

The workflows path. Will be used together with the property infa.bpm.base.url to find the endpoints

infa.bpm.user

No

The username for accessing the Informatica BPM instance. Only required if basic authentication on BPM side is configured

infa.bpm.password

No

The password for accessing the Informatica BPM instance. Only required if basic authentication on BPM side is configured

If you want to encrypt the password please refer to chapter Encryption of secure information in the Server Installation manual.

com.heiler.ppm.bpm.server/proxy

No

Allows to track any call from the server to the Informatica BPM system using a proxy like Fiddler web debugger, example is localhost:8888

This property is disabled by default

infa.bpm.serviceendpoint.filter

No

Comma separated list, possibility of filtering out specific service endpoints, e.g.:serviceEndpoint1, serviceEndpoint2

infa.bpm.maxRequestRate

No

unlimited

Maximum rate of requests per second which are run against the BPM backend.

infa.bpm.taskRefreshInterval

No

10

Time interval in seconds in which task update events are executed. This relates to task update events which are triggered by a call to workflow status updates.

infa.bpm.serviceEndpointListPollInterval

No

5

Time interval in seconds in which the list of endpoints is retrieved from BPM.

infa.bpm.queue.jms.connection.url

No

uses the Audittrail configured JMS connection url

Connection url to the JMS queue. By default this is the same as for Audittrail.

infa.bpm.queue.threadpool.size

No

Number of processor cores

Number of threads which are consuming the internal queue and do call BPM with messages.

infa.bpm.queue.inMemoryBackupSize

No

10000

The number of in memory queued messages, which are stored if no JMS queue is available.

infa.bpm.queue.throttlingDelayMiliseconds

No

10000

The delay in milliseconds which the dispatch of messages is hold before the next try, if BPM is not available anymore.

infa.bpm.queue.messageLifetimeHours

No

96

The duration of messages that are queued in hours. If the duration is exceeding the defined time the messages will be deleted.

infa.bpm.logAccumulationDurationInSeconds

No

3600

The time period in which the same exceptions regarding the connection and bpm messages are accumulated before being logged out again

Some of the properties are also responsible for the fail-over handling, for details of these configuration properties please refer to Failsafe handling of calls to Informatica BPM .

Simple connectivity test

After installing the Informatica BPM service and configuration of the required properties on Product 360 side a first connectivity test can be done by opening the rich client with the "Business process management" perspective. In this perspective a new workflow trigger can be defined and available service endpoints can be assigned.

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The drop-down list "Service endpoints" contains all service endpoints deployed to the Informatica BPM instance.

Service endpoints and partner links within Informatica BPM workflows

Service endpoints of Informatica BPM workflows have to be defined in form of so called partner links in the PDD file of the respective workflow.

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The communication between Informatica BPM and Product 360 is performed via Product 360's REST service. The Product 360 server over which the communication should take place has to be made available also by means of a partner link in the workflow's PDD file.

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