Preface

This Guide describes the concepts important for understanding deployed and active Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) processes that run on your application server.

ActiveVOS Server includes server components as well as a copy of ActiveVOS Designer. ActiveVOS Designer is a tool to create, simulate, and deploy BPEL processes.

We highly recommend that you use ActiveVOS Designer to deploy BPEL processes to the server. ActiveVOS Designer automates much of the BPEL process creation, and it automates the entire deployment process. Optionally, you can hand-code the required files.

This Guide describes how to deploy processes using ActiveVOS Designer, as well as describing the purpose and contents of the required files.

Please be sure to consult the companion documentation:

ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide. This guide resides in the \Docs folder of your ActiveVOS Designer installation folder. It describes how to use ActiveVOS Designer to create or import, simulate, and deploy BPEL processes. The Designer User’s Guide is also available in html format as online help in ActiveVOS Designer.
ActiveVOS Server Installation, Configuration, and Deployment Guide. This guide provides online details of installing, configuring, and deploying ActiveVOS Server to your application server, as you execute the Config and Deploy utility.
ActiveVOS Server Administration Console Help. A .pdf copy of the online help for the server Administration Console is available in the server\doc folder. The help describes the tasks you can perform to deploy and manage BPEL processes and to configure the ActiveVOS engine.
Release Notes. Release Notes are available in the \doc folder of each product.
ActiveVOS Inbox Help. This guide describes how to use the standard Inbox application that accompanies the ActiveVOS Server product.