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Creating an Event-Action BPEL Process

An event-action process receives and handles the events you define in other processes.
To create an event-action BPEL process:
  1. 1. In the Project Explorer, select the File > New > BPEL Process.
  2. 2. Select a Workspace folder, type in a File name, and select Next.
  3. 3. Select the BPEL template called Event Action Process.
A new BPEL file opens with a receive activity that takes an event trigger as input.
The event trigger is based on one of the following:
A system event is consumed by the event action service for all running processes. However, you can narrow your event handling to particular processes by programmatically referring to a process, such as:
$trigger/AeEngineEvent/processLocalName/text()='myProcess'
The following is an example of an input message for the event-action process with a defined event:
<evt:trigger xmlns:evt="http://docs.active-endpoints.com/wsdl/eventing/2008/06/eventing.wsdl"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<orderitem xmlns:ext="http://dinner2">
<processId type="xsd:long">601</processId>
<eventId type="xsd:string">/process/flow
/extensionActivity
/peopleActivity[@name='PlaceOrder']:PID_601</eventId>
<timeStamp type="xsd:dateTime">2008-07-28T19:03:33.464Z
</timeStamp>
<planId type="xsd:int">19</planId>
<nodePath type="xsd:string">/process/flow
/extensionActivity/peopleActivity[@name='PlaceOrder']
</nodePath>
<processName type="xsd:QName">ext:dinner</processName>
<state type="xsd:int">2</state>
<sessionId type="xsd:int">2</sessionId>
<locationId type="xsd:int">75</locationId>
<instanceNodePath type="xsd:string">/process/flow
/extensionActivity/peopleActivity[@name='PlaceOrder']
</instanceNodePath>
<myOrderItemProp type="xsd:string">sandwiches
</myOrderItemProp>
</orderitem>
</evt:trigger>