It can only define the flow and scope of business transactions. It does
not offer any way to measure or manage processes, and there is no abstraction for
players or roles involved in the business processes, but different BPEL implementers
have extended it by adding these capabilities. For instance, Oracle's BPEL Process
Manager is capable of understanding workflow.
BPEL is still the ultimate standard for assembling a set of discrete services into an
end-to-end process flow. There are many tools available in the market that can
manage the lifecycle of business processes and also offers the support of authoring
and testing processes. Out of all of them, a BPEL Designer is a GUI-based tool that
lets you create complex business processes using BPEL constructs. One of those tools
is the BPEL Designer that comes with the NetBeans Enterprise Pack.
I cannot possibly discuss the merits of various BPEL Designers on the market, but
can say that NetBeans BPEL Designer lets you create and manage BPEL-based
business processes in a very elegant way.
In this chapter, let us discuss some points which include:
Why BPEL?
NetBeans BPEL Designer
Supported BPEL Elements
Runtime Integration
Design and Source Views
BPEL Palette
BPEL Mapper
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BPEL Designer
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BPEL for Business Process
BPEL is an XML-based execution environment intended to enable simple to complex
business process definitions for document-centric business processes.
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