ActiveBPEL® Designer User’s Guide

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Starting a New Process

Ensure that at least one orchestration project is displayed in the Project Explorer before creating a new BPEL process. For details, see Creating an Orchestration Project.

To begin a new process:

1. Select File>New>BPEL Process.
2. For organization and convenience, select the bpel folder in your orchestration project folder, and in the File name field, type in a name for your BPEL file. The .bpel extension is automatically added.
3. Select Advanced to view properties that you can set for this process. The default values (for the check box properties) are shown and can be set for all processes in ActiveBPEL Preferences. In addition, you can set the process name, target namespace and other properties for this process later. See Process Element and Properties for more information.
4. Click Finish.

Your BPEL file opens on the Process Activities tab of the Process Editor.

Note that an error icon appears next to your folder. This icon indicates validation of your BPEL file has occurred, and that your process is not currently valid. This icon disappears as you add the necessary activities to the process.

For details on validation, see About Project Orchestration and Validation Builders .

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