Few months ago Microsoft has published the CTP version of BPEL for WF. The build contains a set of native BPEL activities. One BPEL activity which are composed in the BPEL workflow. Technically, the BPEL workflow is a class called BpelProcess as shown in the picture below.
It is implemented in the namespace Microsoft.Workflows.BpelActivities. All BPEL-activities (including the base class) are implemented in the assembly Microsoft.Workflows.BpelActivities.dll.
Here is a simple BPEL based workflow:
Additionally, the download also contains two useful tools, which I already presented at German's TechNet tour last year. That are BPEL import.exe and BPEL export.exe.
Following picture shows the BPEL Export in action. This tool exports an existing BPEL Workflow implemented on the top of WF to BPEL format. Note that the exporting assembly has to contain a BPEL workflow.
Following files are created after exporting:
The second tool BPEL Import is used to import BPEL workflow into Workflow Foundation. This tool creates the WF solution file and all other required WF files form specified BPEL file.
Posted
Apr 09 2008, 08:35 AM
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Damir Dobric