Chapter 2 Getting Started with the Business Process Model

Reverse Engineer BPEL4WS Files From Other Applications Use Case

BPEL4WS is a standard format commonly used in the market. You can recover BPEL4WS code into a new business process model using the reverse engineer feature. The resulting BPEL4WS model can then be generated into another BPM for a specific process engine like Sybase Unwired Orchestrator for example.

Reverse engineer BPEL4WS files

You reverse engineer BPEL4WS files into a new BPM for BPEL4WS. Select File→Reverse Engineer→Process Language. The processes are created into the model and displayed in the diagram.

For more information, see "Reverse Engineering BPEL4WS" in the "Working with BPEL4WS" chapter.

Change target language

You use the Change Current Process Language feature and select an executable language in the list. This feature is equivalent to a model to model generation, except for the source model that is not preserved. This feature automatically replaces the content of you current model by performing the appropriate transformations on the whole model to make it compliant with the target executable process language.

For more information, see "Changing the process language of a BPM" in the "Business process Model Basics" chapter.

The next steps are identical to those described in the previous section, you have to:

Check the model.
Import Web services if required.
Implement processes.
Generate the code in order to further implement processes in a process engine.