ActiveVOS Server User’s Guide
A service endpoint for a process consumer provides a means of sending a message to the ActiveVOS engine that either creates a new process instance or gets routed to an existing process instance. In BPEL terminology, the endpoint is known as a My Role service endpoint. In ActiveVOS Designer, the My Role endpoint is referred to as the Process Consumer.
The deployment options for service endpoints are configured as myRole elements within the process deployment descriptor (PDD) and are automatically published by ActiveVOS when a business process archive (.bpr) is deployed.
Services can be deployed as SOAP web services, REST-ful HTTP endpoints, or as unpublished services only accessible to internal clients. The engine uses the binding attribute on the myRole service to determine how to deploy the endpoint and make it accessible.
When you create a Process Deployment Descriptor, you can select one of the standard bindings for a My Role service. You can also create a Java implementation, if desired.
For a discussion of the standard and Java-based invocation methods, see the following topics:
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