ActiveBPEL® Designer User’s Guide

Using the ActiveBPEL Process Editor

The Process Editor consists of a canvas and palette for creating a visual representation of a BPEL process. When you create a BPEL file, as described in Starting a New Process, the file opens in the Process Activities tab of the editor, and you have a blank canvas on which to create a process.

The following illustration shows the parts of the Process Editor.

Process editor with callouts

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Palette. Select activities, containers, and links to create a process definition. Select Operation Wizard to create a receive, invoke or receive/reply activity that does not yet have an associated Web Reference. Annotate your process with drawing labels and shapes. Create custom activities to re-use in other processes.

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Tabs. Select a tab to design a specific component of a process on its own page or to view the generated XML code in the Source tab. You can print the contents of each page.

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Canvas. Drag palette items to the canvas. Set visual properties for the items and the canvas.

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