Partner Link Layout

The partnerlinks are put to the left and to the right margin of the process diagram. Service requestors are placed on the left side, service providers are placed on the right side. To define the role and to choose the appropriate side for each partnerlink the IDE uses the order of roles defined for the partnerLinkType in the WSDL file. The role defined first in the partnerLinkType in the WSDL file is considered to be a service role, the second defined role is considered to be the role for the requestor and callback receiver. If the roles are defined in the reverse order in the wsdl file (the callback receiver role is defined on the first place, and the service role on the second place) then you get the improper partnerlink layout in the BPEL process diagram, though the operation is not damaged. If a partnerlink appears on the wrong side you probably have to go to the WSDL file and swap places for the role definitions in the partnerLinkType.