The BPEL Editor Views

In the BPEL Editor you can switch between Source View, Design View, Mapper View and Logging View. All the views are always kept in sync.

• Design View — The Design view is a business processes designer where you can author a diagram of your business process. In the Design view, you add, edit, and delete diagram elements. The diagram constructed in the Design view is automatically generated into BPEL source code compliant with the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification with the exceptions listed in the BPEL 2.0 Language Constructs section of the BPEL Service Engine User's Guide.

  The Design view opens by default when you double-click a BPEL source file from a BPEL Module project in the Projects window. To switch to the corresponding place in the Source view, right-click an element in the Design view and select Go to Source (Alt-O).

• Source View — The Source view shows the underlying code for a business process diagram. The Source view is based on the IDE's XML Source view and provides access to conveniences such as code folding, XML syntax highlighting, and code completion.

  You can perform source level editing as well as visual designing. The BPEL Designer will perform round-trip two-way engineering to ensure that the Design view and Source view remain synchronized with each other. The IDE will automatically re-parse the BPEL source file and rebuild the diagram every time you perform manual edits of the source file.

  To switch to the corresponding place in the Design view, place a cursor at the line in the Source view, right-click and choose Go to Design (Alt-D).

• Mapper View — The BPEL Mapper provides a framework for processing and directing BPEL process data. The BPEL Mapper can be used to assign values or to set conditions. To switch to the the Mapper view press Ctrl-Shift-F9 or click the Mapper tab on the editor toolbar. For more information refer to the Using the BPEL Mapper section.

• Logging View — The Logging view provides you with the capability to set logging or alerting rules for the process. To switch to the the Logging view press Alt-L or click the Logging tab on the editor toolbar. For more information see the Logging and Alerting section.

Cloning Document Views

The Clone Document feature is a customization option which enables you to clone documents views. For example, if you want to see both the source and the design view of a BPEL process at the same time (or the Design and Mapper view) follow the instructions below.

Several views of one document are always kept in sync.

To Clone the Document View:

1. Open the BPEL file

2. Right click the tab with the file name and choose Clone Document. Another tab with the same document will be created.

3. Drag and drop one of the tabs to the location you choose: left, right or to the bottom of the screen. An orange frame will show you where the window you are dragging will be placed.