Important date functions in Oracle BPEL

Important date functions in Oracle BPEL:

Format-dateTime:

This function returns the formatted string of dateTime using the format provided.

xp20:format-dateTime(dateTime as string, format as string)

•   dateTime – The dateTime to be formatted
•    format – The format for the output

Format String:-

Format Date Time: Year

Example	Expression
2012	[Y0001]
2012	[Y]
12	[Y01]
Two Thousand and Twelve	[YWw]

Format Date Time: Month

Example	Expression
08	[M01]
8	[M]
VIII	[MI]
August	[MNn]
AUGUST	[MN]
Aug	[MNn,*-3]
AUG	[MN,*-3]

                                      

Format Date Time: Day

Example	Expression
05	[D01]
5	[D]
5	[D1]
31st	[D1o]
Tuesday	[FNn]

Format Date Time: Hour

Example	Expression
3	[h]
9	[H]
08	[H01]

Format Date Time: Minute

Example	Expression
03	[m01]
3	[m]

Format Date Time: Second

Example	Expression
09	[s01]
9	[s]

Format Date Time: Millisecond

Example	Expression
257	[f001]

Format Date Time: AM/PM

Example	Expression
PM	[PN]
Am	[Pn]

Format Date Time: GMT

Example	Expression
GMT+02:00	[z]

Example:-

xp20:format-dateTime(xp20:current-dateTime(),"[D01]/[M01]/[Y0001] [H01]:[m01]:[s01]")

JAXB Mapping of XML Schema Built-in Data Types

JAXB Mapping of XML Schema Built-in Data Types  

XML Schema Type	Java Data Type
xsd:string	java.lang.String
xsd:integer	java.math.BigInteger
xsd:int	int
xsd.long	long
xsd:short	short
xsd:decimal	java.math.BigDecimal
xsd:float	float
xsd:double	double
xsd:boolean	boolean
xsd:byte	byte
xsd:QName	javax.xml.namespace.QName
xsd:dateTime	java.util.Calendar
xsd:base64Binary	byte[]
xsd:hexBinary	byte[]
xsd:unsignedInt	long
xsd:unsignedShort	int
xsd:unsignedByte	short
xsd:time	java.util.Calendar
xsd:date	java.util.Calendar
xsd:anySimpleType	java.lang.String

Programmatically compile Java class

Programmatically compile Java class:

import javax.tools.JavaCompiler;
import javax.tools.ToolProvider;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    JavaCompiler compiler = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler();
    int result = compiler.run(null, null, null, "Hello.java");

    System.out.println("Compile result code = " + result);
  }
}