Provides the ability to start a composite(s) on the SOA server. This operation will handle all revisions for a given composite to ensure that the default revision doesn't change as revisions are started. The default revision is always started and other revisions can be controlled by an "Start All Revisions" input.

Environment/Instance Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description
SOA Server Host	`FDSOA_SERVER_HOST`	Yes	Host name of the SOA managed server.
SOA Server Port	`FDSOA_SERVER_PORT`	Yes	Port number of the SOA managed server.
Weblogic Admin User	`FDWLS_ADMIN_USER`	Yes	Admin user name for WebLogic server.
Weblogic Admin Password	`FDWLS_ADMIN_PASSWORD`	Yes	`Weblogic Admin User` password for WebLogic server.
Oracle SOA Home	`FD_ORACLE_SOA_HOME`	Yes	Oracle SOA Home, indicates where SOA Suite is installed.

Project Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description
SOA Composite Name	`FDSOA_COMPOSITE_NAME`	Yes	Name of composite that is being deployed.
SOA Partition	`FDSOA_PARTITION`	Yes	Name of the partition to hold the composite on the server.

Inputs

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description
Composites File	`FDSOA_INP_COMPOSITES_FILE`	No	Path, including file name, to file that contains the composites to start. See Special Considerations section below for additional details.
Composite Name List	`FDSOA_INP_COMPOSITE_NAME_LIST`	No	Comma separated list of composites to start. Optionally, can prefix a partition on the composite name if there are more than one composite with the same name, (<partition:>composite1, composite2). See Special Considerations section below for additional details.
Start All Revisions	`FDSOA_INP_START_ALL_REVISIONS`	No	Provides the option to leave all composites stopped, with the exception of the default revision (default value is False).
Composite Revision	`FDSOA_INP_REVISION`	No	Provide specific composite revision to start (this is for backwards compatibility). See Special Considerations section below for additional details.
Make Default Revision	`FDSOA_MAKE_DEFAULT_REVISION`	No	Make the newly started composite the default revision (this is for backwards compatibility)

Outputs

Output Name	Required	Description

Artifacts

This operation doesn't consume or produce any artifacts.

Endpoint Selection

This operation will select all available endpoints associated to the Environment/Instance.

Endpoint Execution

This operation will execute on any one of the selected endpoints and will be random in the determination of which one.

Special Considerations

This operation has two independent capabilities and shouldn't be utilized together as the single revision logic is executed first. If Composite Revision input is set, the Composite Files and Composite Name List inputs will be ignored :

starting a single revision (this is the backwards compatibility capability)
- utilizes "Composite Revision" and "Make Default Revision" inputs to control what revision to start and whether it should be the default revision
starting multiple composites/revisions
- utilizes "Composites File" or "Composite Name List" and "Start All Revisions" inputs
  - if utilizing "Composite File", there can be several variations of file name;
    1. just a file name, will look in the temp directory for the given file name
    2. relative path, will only look for the relative path within the temp directory for the given file name
    3. absolute path, will only look at the absolute path for the given file
- either input (Composite File or Composite Name List) provides a list of composite names to start that must use the following format: <partition:>composite1,composite2 (partition is optional)
- the default revision is started first and then all non-default revisions will be started, if the "Start All Revisions" input is checked. This will maintain the default revision and not allow SOA Suite to move the default revision to another revision. If a composite is in two partitions, then specify the partition in the above format to direct the operation to the correct composite.

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