How a BPEL Process is Instantiated

For an easy way to start a process, see Creating a Process Central Process Form.

A BPEL process is invoked just like a Web service. The process service is deployed with a URL of http://[machinename:port]/active-bpel/services/[service name], where [service name] is the value of the service attribute of the my role element in the process deployment descriptor file.

The process is also deployed with a URL of http://[machinename:port]/active-bpel/services/soap12/[service name] so that clients sending a request to a process can do so with a SOAP 1.2 binding. The default binding is SOAP 1.1.