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Life cycle of BPEL processes

When a BPEL process is initiated, the navigation of a process instance is started, and it begins to interact with its environment. This means that certain interactions are only possible in certain process states, and these interactions, in turn, influence the state of the process instance.


See

  1. State transition diagrams for BPEL process instances
  2. State transition diagrams for activities in BPEL processes
  3. Lifecycle management of BPEL subprocesses
  4. Lifecycle of stand-alone human tasks that are invoked by a BPEL process

BPEL processes overview