ActiveBPEL® Designer User’s Guide

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Using Web References Search

In ActiveBPEL, you can search for the use of Web Reference components within your BPEL files.

You can perform two kinds of searches for Web References:

• Search for a string or pattern using the Web References tab in the Search dialog.
• Quick search for a WSDL component with the Find Where Used option. For more information, see Finding Where a WSDL Component is Used.

Web References search helps you locate a WSDL component referenced in a BPEL file. If you do not remember the full name of the component, you can search using wildcards.

To perform a Web Reference Search in the entire Workspace or in a Working set

1. Select Web Reference from the Search menu.
2. In the Search for panel, select the type of WSDL component:
• Message
• Partner Link Type
• Namespace
3. For a message or partner link type search do the following:
• If desired, type in a search string, optionally with wildcards. Select the Case sensitive box, if desired.
• If desired, further refine the search by providing namespace information. Select the Case sensitive box, if desired.
4. For a namespace search, if desired, type in a search string, optionally with wildcards. Select the Case sensitive box, if desired.
5. Select the scope of the search:
• Entire workspace, namely all BPEL files in the Navigator that have not been imported from outside the workspace
• A working set, which is a named, customized group of project files and folders. Note that working set refers to a set of Navigator files and not a reference set of Web References.
• For details on using Selected Resources, refer to the next procedure.
6. Select Search.
7. A list of project files appears in the Search results view. If the Search view is not visible, select it from the Window>Show View menu.

In the following example, the search criteria included “messages starting with the string “a” in all namespaces in the entire workspace,” as indicated in the Search title bar.



8. Double-click a file to open it.

To perform a Web Reference Search with Selected Resources

1. Display the Navigator view.
2. Select one or more files. When you open the Search dialog, the Select Resources option will be selected.
3. Follow the procedure above, starting with Step 1, Select Web Reference from the Search menu.

In the following example, two files were selected in the Navigator before the Search dialog was opened. The search criteria was for all messages in all namespaces.

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