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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Reply. Causes the process to send a message in reply to a partner service's message that came through a Receive activity. |
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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. |