This version of ActiveVOS Designer adds the following new features and functionality:
For details, refer to the topics below as well as to the documentation included with ActiveVOS Designer.
ActiveVOS Designer now supports Eclipse 3.4 and bundles Subversion in addition to CVS for source management.
The Participants View is a new default view that provides a clear picture of the relationships between process consumers, providers and human participants within a given process. This view replaces the Interfaces View by default - although the Interfaces View is still supported and can be added from the main menu (Window>Show View). This new view allows developers to easily define new participants, then drag them to the canvas where the Designer automatically creates the necessary BPEL constructs needed to include the participant as part of the orchestration.
Input and Output tabs have been added to property sheets of activities that interface with a
service (Reply, Invoke, People). With the assistance of XPath and XQuery expression builders, you can now
easily map message data as part of the activities property sheet.
Using this new style of assigning message data makes the process easier to read, as it reduces the visual "clutter"
of standalone BPEL Assign activities which are solely responsible for data transformation and assignment.
ActiveVOS Designer now automatically generates public and private WSDL Interfaces for developers. Public WSDLs are typically shared with partners, while private WSDLs are typically only useful within the context of the process orchestration.
Property Sheets have been improved to allow for the creation of variables, participants and other critical artifacts. Most property labels now provide linked navigation from the property sheet directly to the associated artifact.
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