Chapter 8 Building an Executable BPM: Working with Service Description Objects

Defining Service Providers

A service provider describes an object that gathers a set of service interfaces, for which it represents a namespace. It corresponds to the imported WSDL file. The XSD documents attached to a service provider allow you to visualize the data schemas extracted from the WSDL file.

It has no symbol in the diagram, but has the following graphical representation in the Browser:

The service provider is mandatory in the design of an executable process, as service interfaces must be created under a service provider.

For example a service provider "Travel Agent" may contain the following service interfaces: "TravelAgentToAirline" and "TravelAgentToTraveler".

When you copy a service provider, the service interfaces associated with it are also copied.

You cannot create shortcuts for a service provider.