ActiveBPEL® Designer User’s Guide

About ActiveBPEL Designer and the Eclipse Workbench

ActiveBPEL Designer runs as plugins in the Eclipse Workbench integrated development environment. Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. ActiveBPEL Designer takes advantage of the Eclipse Workbench features to provide design, execution, and debug tools for its suite of products.

If you have worked in the Eclipse Workbench before, you will notice that ActiveBPEL Designer consists of standard plugins. If you are new to Eclipse, you will appreciate the flexibility and richness of the work environment. You may want to browse the Workbench User’s Guide Help in online help, which describes generic interface details.

Note: Not all generic Eclipse functions apply to ActiveBPEL. You will notice that some Eclipse options and preferences are unavailable in ActiveBPEL.

For more information on ActiveBPEL’s user interface, see Navigating Through ActiveBPEL Designer.