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Manage the lifecycle of BPEL processes using Business Process Choreographer Explorer

After a BPEL process starts, it goes through various states until it ends. As a process administrator, you can take various actions on a process throughout its lifecycle.

• Starting a new process instance
  

  You can start a new BPEL process instance from any of the BPEL process templates that you are authorized to use.

• Monitoring the progress of a BPEL process instance
  

  You can monitor the progress of a process instance to determine whether you need to take action so that the process can run to completion.

• Viewing and modifying the variables of an activity
  View and modify the activity variables of a process instance using Business Process Choreographer Explorer.
• Suspending and resuming BPEL process instances
  

  You can suspend a long-running, top-level process instance.

  You might want to do this, for example, so that you can configure access to a back-end system that is used later in the process, or to fix a problem that is causing the process instance to fail. When the prerequisites for the process are met, you can resume the process instance.

• Terminating BPEL process instances
  

  You might want to terminate a process instance, for example, if the work or documents it represents are no longer needed, if no one is available to complete the process instance, if you have encountered problems with the process template and it needs to be redesigned, and so on.

• Delete BPEL process instances using Business Process Choreographer Explorer
  Process templates can be modeled so that process instances are not automatically deleted when they complete. You can explicitly delete these process instances after they complete.

Administer BPEL processes and human tasks

Related concepts:
BPEL process administration—frequently asked questions
Lifecycle of BPEL processes
Authorization roles for BPEL processes