BPEL activities
BPEL processes have a series of steps and each step is an activity. BPEL process logic is performed by the activities. For clients, BPEL processes looks like any other web service. In other words, a BPEL process is a web service that coordinates, integrates, and orchestrates the basic web services to serve a business function. OASIS WS-BPEL specifications classify activities in the following categories:
Basic activities: Enables the process behavior such as invoking and performing web services operations, updating variables, and partner links
Structured activities: Enables the control flow logic such as flow control activities
Creating basic activities in BPEL
Launch JDeveloper and perform the following steps to create a basic BPEL process:
The first step is to set up the application. In JDeveloper, the term "application" is used for specifying the workspace. An application can have one or more projects. An application has a project for defining the models and one or more projects...
