Creating a BPEL croquis

In the menu, select File > New > Croquis.
If you do not see it, go into File > New > Other... Then, select Croquis under the Petals category.

A wizard opens, showing three drop-down lists.
In the Use Case combo, select Use a Petals technical service.
In the Petals Component combo, select BPEL // petals-se-bpel.
In the Component Version combo, select the version of the Petals-SE-BPEL that you are using in Petals.

In the scope of this page, we will use the version 1.0 of the component.
Click Next. A new page appears.

This page, and the next ones, are similar to those that are shown in the creation of a BPEL project.
Please, refer to this page for the remaining instructions.

On wizard completion, the project is created under the Croquis (or Sketches) category.

Editing a BPEL croquis

A BPEL croquis can be edited like any other BPEL process.
One of the differences is that you are not required to orchestrate Petals services. You can work with any WSDL.
Another difference is a specialized export.

Exporting a BPEL croquis

The export process is quite simple.
Once your BPEL croquis is finished, right-click it and select Petals > Create concrete project(s).

The BPEL process is introspected. A dialog then shows up and lists projects to create.
This list is built in the following way:

• Each partner link is considered to be an external Web service (not in Petals).
  • Therefore, each one should be imported in the bus.
  • Therefore, each one result in a Service-Unit project for the SOAP component.

• The BPEL process can only run on the Petals component.
  • Therefore, there is a Service-Unit project for the BPEL component.

• There is also a Service-Unit project for the SOAP component, that expose the BPEL process as a Web service outside Petals ESB.
• Eventually, there is a Service Assembly project that gathers all the Service-Unit projects together.

For each project, you can decide to create it or not.
It is also possible to overwrite an existing project, by enabling the Overwrite property.
Click Finish to run the generation process.

Packaging the result

The export result in a set of Service-Unit (SU) and Service Assembly (SA) projects.

This phase created Petals artifacts from your BPEL project. Each created artifact is involved in the fact that the BPEL process can now run in Petals ESB.
These projects can be exported for deployment as any other SU and SA projects.
Obviously, it is also possible to edit or change things in the exported projects prior to package them.