ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

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Debugging Remote Processes Running on the Server

As described in Deploying Your Processes, you can run your BPEL processes on an ActiveVOS server. You can connect to a running, suspended, completed, or faulted process from within ActiveVOS Designer for remote debugging.

When the process instance is opened in Designer, you have full access to the debug features you use during simulation, such as setting a breakpoint, stepping or running to a breakpoint, following highlights along the execution path, and inspecting process variables. You can also modify data values and retry activities.

Before you can debug a process remotely, you must complete the following:

• Create and validate a BPEL process
• Create a process deployment descriptor file
• Create a business process archive
• Deploy the business process archive to the ActiveVOS server
• Keep a copy of the BPEL and WSDL files in your workspace project
• Start the server
• Instantiate the process by sending an appropriate message to it

Select the following topics for remote debugging details.

• Setting Up the ActiveVOS Server
• Configuring a Remote Process Connection
• Selecting Processes for Remote Debugging
• Setting Breakpoints on a Process for Remote Debugging
• Using the Debug View, Process Editor, and Variable View for Remote Debugging
• Remote Debugging Preferences
• Selecting a Launch Configuration from the Toolbar
• Checking for an Out of Sync Process
• Server Interactions During a Remote Debugging Session
• Setting Options for Console Output
• Correcting, Retrying, or Completing Activities
• Process Exception Management

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