BPEL Designer Palette: Web Service

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The Web Service section of the BPEL Designer Palette contains icons for the following business process elements: Invoke, Partner Link, Receive, and Reply. These elements represent requests, responses, and agreements between a process and its partner services. The following table lists the Web Service elements as they appear on the Palette and provides brief descriptions of these elements.

Icon   Description
Invoke icon Invoke. Enables the business process to send a message to a partner web service. Invokes a one-way or request-response operation on a portType offered by a partner. The operation is defined in the partner's WSDL file.
Receive icon Receive. Causes the process to wait for a matching message to arrive from a partner service. The process cannot continue or end until it receives a matching message from the partner service.
Reply icon Reply. Causes the process to send a message in reply to a partner service's message that came through a Receive activity.
Partner Link icon Partner Link. Identifies a partner web service listed in the BPEL source code which will exchange messages with your business process. The relationships between your process and a partner web service are characterized by defining the "roles" played by each of the services and specifying the portType provided by each service to receive messages.
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Creating a BPEL Diagram
Operations with Elements in the Design View

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