Graphical Development with BPEL Designer

Writing BPEL processes by hand, as we have done in previous chapters, can become time consuming and complex. Therefore, Oracle has developed the BPEL Designer, which enables graphical development of BPEL processes. Instead of writing BPEL code we can develop processes in a graphical environment where we can add activities using drag-and-drop. BPEL Designer simplifies development and makes it faster. In addition to drag-and-drop modeling it provides a browser through which we can locate web services. It also provides a copy assistant, an XPath editor, the ability to compile and deploy a process on the BPEL Server with one mouse click, and several other useful tools. Oracle BPEL Designer natively supports BPEL version 1.1, so we can also use it for developing BPEL processes that will be deployed to any other BPEL server.

BPEL Designer is available for two environments:

• JDeveloper BPEL Designer, integrated with Oracle JDeveloper

• Eclipse BPEL Designer,...