ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

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Exporting a Partner Link to an Abstract Process

To help your partners implement the operations that interact with your service, you can provide your partners with a process definition that describes the operations. This process definition can be exported from a Swimlane in a process diagram.

For Swimlane information, see Showing and Hiding Swimlanes.

To create a BPEL file containing partner link information:

1. Create a BPEL process with at least one completed activity based on a WSDL operation such as a receive, invoke, onMessage branch of a pick activity, or onEvent handler.
2. If desired, display a partner link Swimlane to see the facing activities.
3. From the Process menu, select Export Abstract Process.
4. Select Partner Links.
5. Select a partner link from the list.
6. In the Export Abstract Process dialog, select a location for the BPEL file that will be created.
7. Accept the default name or type in a new name for the BPEL file and, if desired, enable the check box for Open file on export.
8. Click OK.

ActiveVOS creates a BPEL process with the Abstract Process attribute set to yes. The file is listed in the Project Explorer.

For more information on abstract processes, see Creating an Executable vs. an Abstract Process.

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