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Deploying a BPEL Process to OpenESB's BPEL
Service Engine
Problem
You have a complete BPEL process built-in to a JAR, and you want to deploy it to OpenESB
v2's BPEL Service Engine to execute it.
Solution
Create a CASA (Composite Application Service Assembly) project using NetBeans. This will
combine the BPEL process bundle with the JBI deployment files required by OpenESB, and
deploy it to the runtime engine.
Discussion
While the definition of a BPEL process itself is standardized through the specification, the
manner in which you deploy that process is left undefined. That means that it's up to each
vendor to figure out its own way of installing a process into its engine so that it can be ex-
ecuted. This is not great news for developers, but tools do make it easier.
Here you will deploy the process that you defined in
Creating a BPEL Process That Invokes
a Partner
through NetBeans 6.X. So let's start from there. You should have the partner web
service that you created in that recipe deployed already.
It doesn't take long to deploy the process, part of which is shown in
Figure 9-13
. Here is an
overview of the basic steps:
1. Build the BPEL module into its JAR.
2. Create a Composite Application Service Assemby (CASA), which you'll wrap the BPEL
process JAR in so that it can be deployed in the JBI container.
3. Add the BPEL JAR to the CASA project.
4. Build and deploy the CASA.
