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Adding an activity to a BPEL process

Activities are the individual business tasks within the process that compose the larger business goal.

After you have created a new process, create the activities that will run the task to be performed by that process. To add an activity, proceed as follows:


Procedure

  1. In the palette, click the icon for the activity.

  2. Drag the cursor out over the canvas. You will notice that the icon beside your cursor has a plus symbol when you are at a place where you are allowed to drop the activity. If the cursor becomes a crossed out circle, continue moving the cursor until it becomes a plus sign again.

  3. Click the area of the canvas where you want to drop the activity.

  4. Configure the activity as necessary in the Properties area of the BPEL process editor.


Results

The Use Data Type Variables option may not appear if the operation being invoked by this activity uses a WSDL message with a parameter extension. To work around this, proceed as follows:

Defining BPEL process logic


Related concepts:
The building blocks of the BPEL process editor
Dealing with faults in your BPEL process
Work with XPath in the BPEL process editor
Work with micropatterns
Locked activities


Related tasks:
Adding an interface or a reference to a business state machine
Adding a variable to a business state machine
Adding a process application as an activity
Defining transactional behavior
Defining timer-driven behavior in a BPEL process
Enabling SCA events to be emitted
Calling other BPEL processes
Calling business services