Developer Guide to BPEL Designer

Note: A newer version of this tutorial is available at Developer's Guide to the BPEL Designer

This document provides a description of the features in the BPEL Designer component of the NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 release, and explains basic editing, compilation, deployment and test running, using the BPEL Runtime bundled with this release. In addition, the guide introduces the reader to the features of BPEL Visual Designer.

Contents

• Overview
  • Using the NetBeans Enterprise Pack BPEL Runtime Integration
  • BPEL 2.0 Elements Not Present in This Release
• The BPEL Project
  • Understanding the BPEL Project
  • Creating a New BPEL Project
  • Creating a New JBI Deployment Project
  • Deploying a Composite Application Project to the JBI Server
  • Creating Sample Processes in the BPEL Designer
• The BPEL Runtime
  • The Composite Application Project
  • The BPEL Service Engine
  • The JBI Runtime Nodes
• The WSDL Editor
  • About the WSDL Editor
  • Creating a WSDL File
  • Views in the WSDL Editor
  • Configuring WSDL File Components
  • Configuring WSDL Data Types
  • Configuring WSDL Messages
  • Configuring WSDL Port Types
  • Configuring WSDL Bindings
  • Configuring WSDL Services
  • Adding BPEL Extensibility Elements
  • Finding Usages of WSDL Components
• The BPEL Design and Source View
  • Understanding the BPEL Design and Source View
  • The Navigator
  • Understanding the Visual Designer
• The BPEL Mapper
  • About the BPEL Mapper
  • Creating BPEL Mappings
  • Working with Predicates
  • XPath Function Reference
  • Mapping Examples
• Using the Palette Elements
  • Using the Invoke Element
  • Using the Receive Element
  • Using the Reply Element
  • Using the PartnerLink Element
  • Using the Empty Element
  • Using the Wait Element
  • Using the Throw Element
  • Using the Assign Element
  • Using the Flow Element
  • Using the Sequence Element
  • Using the If Element
  • Using the Pick Element
  • Using the Scope Element
  • Using the While Element
  • Using the Process Element
  • Using the Repeat Until Element
  • Using the For Each Element
  • Using the Exit Element
• Using Handlers
  • Using a Fault Handler
  • Using an Event Handler
• Refactoring
• Validation
• Testing and Debugging BPEL Processes
  • Testing a BPEL Process
  • Debugging BPEL Processes
• Troubleshooting

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