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| ActiveVOS Training | ||
| BPEL, Self-Paced | The self-paced edition of Active Endpoints' comprehensive BPEL Fundamentals and BPEL Intermediate courseware. This course is also available via live instruction. | ![]() |
| ActiveVOS Primers | ||
| What is BPEL? | Take a tour of WS-BPEL 2.0 and learn more about the basics of BPEL. | ![]() |
| BPEL Basics for Java Developers | Get moving in the right direction from your starting point as a Java Developer and use this "footbridge" to explore the worlds of SOA and BPEL. | ![]() ![]() |
| XML Schema Primer | Review this primer on XML Schema, a prerequisite for undertaking visual orchestration system design. | ![]() |
| WSDL Primer | Review this primer on WSDL definitions, a prerequisite for undertaking visual orchestration system design. (Best viewed after the XML Schema Primer.) | ![]() |
| ActiveVOS Samples | ||
| Admin API | Communicate with the ActiveVOS Server Administration Interface via the published web services API in ActiveVOS Server PE, EE or CE Engine. | ![]() |
| Alerts | Create, deploy and register a BPEL Process that uses the Identity and Email Services in the ActiveVOS Server to respond to alerts generated by the Alert Service. | ![]() |
| Asynchronous Message Exchange | Learn now to communicate between web services using Asynchronous Message Exchange patterns. | ![]() |
| Attachments | Create, deploy and register a BPEL Process that can interact with data in SOAP Attachments sent as part of a request message. | ![]() |
| BPEL_Samples | A collection of basic BPEL processes that provide examples ranging from how to use a particular BPEL activity such as pick or scope, to more complex examples of processes that invoke external Web services or show techniques such as handling multiple start messages. | ![]() |
| Complex Data Exchange | This sample demonstrates best practices for communication using messages that contain complex data types. Also discussed is the procedure for generating a Java client. | ![]() |
| Variable Initialization | This sample shows different methods used to initialize BPEL process variables. | ![]() |
| Custom Functions | Create, install and register custom functions that can be used to facilitate common tasks within a BPEL process (e.g., XML to string) using the ActiveVOS custom functions framework. | ![]() |
| Extended Query using Indexed Properties | This sample shows the use of extended queries using indexed properies with ActiveVOS. | ![]() |
| Invoke | This sample demonstrates how to invoke a BPEL process using a Java client. | ![]() |
| How to Resolve ActiveVOS Sample Project Java Dependencies | This sample contains documentation describing how to access jar files required by some ActiveVOS sample projects. | ![]() |
| Utility Library | A dependency of a few of the other samples, the classes here are useful when developing ActiveVOS clients, Web services, and JSP pages. The provide common behavior (for example, AbstractDocumentClient and LiteralClient) and services (for example, StringUtils and Getopts). | ![]() |
| ActiveVOS Development Tools | ||
| ActiveVOS Inbox Rendering SDK | Use this SDK to customize the ActiveVOS Inbox application that handles BPEL for People tasks. (Updated 05/12/08) | ![]() |



- Unit 01: Introduction
