BPEL - Access the variables in embedded Java

(From http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/bpel-embedded-java.html)

try{
    String status = "Bronze";
    /* accessing a process variable of type string */
    String country = (String)getVariableData("v_country");
   
    /* accessing a variable within the complex type - customer */
    Element country1 = (Element)getVariableData("inputVariable", "payload","/ns1:customer/ns1:Country");


    String c1 = country1.getTextContent();
  
    /* writes to the audit trail - will then be visible in BPEL console at runtime*/
    addAuditTrailEntry("country is: " + country);
    addAuditTrailEntry("country1 is: " + c1);

    if (country.equalsIgnoreCase("Ireland")){
        status = "Gold";
    }

    /* setting the output variable within the complex type - customer */
    setVariableData("outputVariable", "payload", "/ns1:customer/ns1:Status", status);

    addAuditTrailEntry("status is: " + status);
}catch (Exception e) {
    addAuditTrailEntry(e);
}

Add the following line before the bpelx:exec tag to import the Element class
<import location="org.w3c.dom.Element" importType="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension/java"/>

Calling an external Java class in a Java activity
Jar up the Java class you want to use and copy the jarfile to the BPEL
system\services\lib directory.
In this example, my class is called CustomerStatus

try{
    String status = "Bronze";
    String country = (String)getVariableData("v_country");
    Element country1 = (Element)getVariableData("inputVariable", "payload","/ns1:customer/ns1:Country");
    String c1 = country1.getTextContent();
    addAuditTrailEntry("country is: " + country);
    addAuditTrailEntry("country1 is: " + c1);

    CustomerStatus cs = new CustomerStatus();
    status = cs.getStatus(country);
    setVariableData("outputVariable", "payload", "/ns1:customer/ns1:Status", status);

    addAuditTrailEntry("status is: " + status);
}catch (Exception e) {
    addAuditTrailEntry(e);
}

Add any classes needed to import using <import/>.