Creating an MDS connection through JDeveloper 11g

3. Choose Database Connection:

 4. Enter your database information to your MDS as follows:

5. Go back and create a new connection, this time, choose SOA-MDS Connection:

 6. Choose "DB Based MDS", choose the connection created in the previous step, and select the "soa-infra" MDS partition:

Now, under the Resource Palette, you will notice the SOA-MDS connection under IDE Connections:

You can now reference artifacts in the MDS through your code.

Referencing DVMs (through attributes or XSL)

dvm:lookupValue('oramds:/apps/AIAMetaData/dvm/hello.dvm','Name','Jack','ID','')

Fault bindings in composite.xml

<property name="oracle.composite.faultBindingFile">oramds:/apps/AIAMetaData/faultPolicies/fault-bindings.xml</property>

Schema or WSDL import

<xsd:import namespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel" schemaLocation="oramds:/apps/AIAMetaData/AIAComponents/hello.xsd"/>