What Happens When You Create a Switch Activity

A switch activity, such as a flow activity, has multiple branches. In the example that follows, there are only two branches shown in the .bpel file after design completion. The first branch, which selects a loan offer from a company named United Loan, is executed if a case condition containing an XPath boolean expression is met. Otherwise, the second branch, which selects the offer from a company named Star Loan, is executed. By default, the switch activity provides two switch cases, but you can add more, as needed.

<switch name="switch-1">
     <case condition="bpws:getVariableData('loanOffer1','payload',
     '/autoloan:loanOffer/autoloan:APR') >
     bpws:getVariableData('loanOffer2','payload','/autoloan:loanOffer/autoloan:APR
     ')">
" name="Choose_the_Loan_with_the_Lower_APR">
               <bpelx:annotation>
                   <bpelx:general>
                       <bpelx:property name="userLabel">Choose the Loan with
                        the Lower APR</bpelx:property>
                   </bpelx:general>
               </bpelx:annotation> 
          <assign name="selectUnitedLoan">
            <copy>
               <from variable="loanOffer1" part="payload">
               </from>
               <to variable="selectedLoanOffer" part="payload"/>
            </copy>
         </assign>
     </case>
     <otherwise>
         <assign name="selectStarLoan">
          <copy>
            <from variable="loanOffer2" part="payload">
            </from>
            <to variable="selectedLoanOffer" part="payload"/>
          </copy>
         </assign>
     </otherwise>
</switch>