Time for action – adding a <forEach> activity

Carry out the following steps:

1. Drag-and-drop a <forEach> activity from the BPEL constructs palette in between the receiveInput and callbackClient activities. Then, the basic configurations of the <forEach> activity can be set as follows:

   

2. To set the Counter Name, double-click on the added <forEach> activity. On the General tab, set Counter Name as foreach_counter. Subtasks within the <forEach> activity can be parallalized by ticking the Parallel Execution checkbox, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

3. To set the <startCounterValue> and <finalCounterValue>, go to the Counter Values tab. Set the unsigned integer expressions for start and final counter values. Then click on Apply and then on OK, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

4. Let's create an <invoke> activity within the <forEach> activity so the <invoke> activity can be repeatedly executed:

   

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