Creating a Business Process Archive File

ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

Creating a Business Process Archive File

To deploy your process to an ActiveVOS server, you must add all relevant files to an archive file (.bpr file), which is similar to a Web archive file. The archiving process is automated for you in ActiveVOS Designer.

Before creating a .bpr file, you must create a .pdd file, described in Creating a Process Deployment Descriptor File. Optionally, you can create partner definitions, as described in Creating a Partner Definition File or additional resources, such as XML files.

If your process uses a doXSLTransform function, the referenced XSL file is automatically added to the .bpr file based on the location of the file you specified as a parameter to the function. For details, see BPEL Functions.

To create a .bpr file:

Select File>Export>Business Process Archive File.
Select the process deployment descriptor file(s) (.pdd files) and partner definition files (.pdef files) to include in the archive, as shown in the following example.

Note: If your process uses a doXslTransform function, the XSL style sheet referenced by the function is automatically added to the BPR file. You do not need to select it. If desired, you do not need to select a PDD. You can fill in the other details on the first page, and click Next to deploy only resources.

Export Business Process Archive dialog

Select the export location and filename for the archive.
Select a Deployment Type:

None. Select this option if you do not wish to deploy your BPR archive upon completion of the file export.
File. Select this option to deploy the archive upon export. In the Deployment location field, browse to any folder. The default location is the embedded server within Designer.
Web Service. Select this option if your server is running and you want to automatically deploy to it. For details, Deploying Your Process to ActiveVOS Server.

If desired, select the option to Save the archive specification as an Ant task in the workspace, and select a location for this file, such as the Orchestration Folder’s deploy folder. For details on this option, see Using a BPRD Script to Regenerate and Deploy a BPR File.
You can deploy additional resources, as described in Deploying Resources to the Server.
Click Finish to create the .bpr file and optional .bprd file.