ActiveBPEL™ Designer User’s Guide

Opening and Using BPEL4WS 1.1 Processes

If you have BPEL processes created in earlier versions of ActiveBPEL Designer, they conform to the BPEL4WS 1.1 specification. You can open and work with BPEL 1.1 processes in ActiveBPEL Designer 3.X. Designer recognizes the version of BPEL in a process and opens in the appropriate mode: BPEL4WS 1.1 or WS-BPEL 2.0.

In BPEL4WS 1.1 mode, Designer displays the palette and menu options that support the BPEL4WS 1.1 specification.

By default, Designer is set to launch in WS-BPEL 2.0 mode. You can set a preference to open Designer in BPEL4WS 1.1 mode, if desired. For details, see ActiveBPEL Preferences.