Activity Name | Description |
|---|---|
Invoke | Directs a Web service to perform an operation |
Assign | Manipulates process variables and partner link endpoint references by creating Copy From/To operations for them |
Empty | An activity that does nothing when it executes. Useful for situations where you need an activity but do not want anything to really happen, for example, suppressing a fault by having the empty be the child of the catch. |
Suspend | Suspends the process. Useful in a catch or catchAll event to catch unexpected errors. |
Validate | Validates the values of variables against their associated XML and WSDL data definition |
Opaque | (For Process Developer Classic only). For abstract processes. Stands as a placeholder for an activity that would be used in an executable process. |
Receive | Accepts message data from a service partner. Optionally begins a process by creating an instance of the process. |
Reply | Sends a response to a partner identified in a matching Receive activity |
Signal | Signals are similar to a throw, differing in that there isn't a fault. A signal throws information that is received by a signal that waits for this information. |
Throw | Signals a fault. Specifies a standard or custom fault |
Rethrow | Passes the fault that was originally caught by the immediately enclosing fault handler to the parent scope |
Exit | Stops an executable process immediately, resulting in a faulted process. |
Wait | Stops process execution for a specified amount of time or until a deadline is reached |
Compensate Scope | Starts compensation on a specified inner scope that has already completed successfully |
Compensate | Executes the compensation handler on a named scope or executes the default compensation if no scope is named |
Break | Breaks out of a scope or a loop in a while or for each activity. Processing continues normally with the next activity. |
Continue | For BPEL-Centric palette only.) Continues with the next iteration in a loop (while, repeat until, or for each). A convenience activity that simplifies processing without the need of specifying all the conditions that may be required to continue normal processing when a certain condition is met. |
Start/End/None | Equivalent to the BPEL empty or assign activity, described above. |