Project Explorer

ActiveBPEL® Designer User’s Guide

Project Explorer

The Project Explorer displays projects, folders, and files located in the ActiveBPEL workspace folder. You must create a project before creating a BPEL process. An enhanced project type for BPEL is the orchestration project. For details, see Creating an Orchestration Project.

The Project Explorer’s orchestration projects contain rich details and builders for working on BPEL processes and related WSDL, schema, sample data, test, and deployment files.

The Project Explorer is a mirror of the file system Workspace folder.

Navigator view

ActiveBPEL is installed with a project called Tutorial.

We recommend you store all files within orchestration projects.

Tips for using the Project Explorer:

Add projects and files to the Project Explorer by dragging them in from the file system and adding an orchestration nature, described in Adding or Removing a Project Orchestration Nature.
Import projects and files. For more information, see Importing existing projects and Importing resources from the file system in the Workbench User Guide Help.
Copy and paste files from the file system
Add files to the project workspace in the file system and then use the Refresh command to update the Project Explorer. For more information, see Workbench and Editing files outside the Workbench in the Workbench User Guide Help.
Use the many tools in the Project Explorer to filter, show, hide, and navigate through files. For more information, see Project Explorer view in the Workbench User Guide Help.
For a tip on copying BPEL files to new locations, see Preserving BPEL Layout With VBPEL Files