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myrpap
myrpap

Reputation: 11

Eclipse BPEL Designer: Select Type of variable

I am new to BPEL and I have installed BPEL Designer in Eclipse Juno along with Apache ode to test some simple bpel examples, such as the ones presented in

http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/cours/WebServices/TP_BPEL/whileloop.html

However, when I proceed to step 5 of this tutorial:

"Click on the variable iterator, in the Properties view, select Details->Browse"..,

...the browse button does not seem to work. (It can be clicked but no window to select appears.)

I was wondering if someone else has faced the same problem (is it an Eclipse bug?).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 653

Answers (1)

joergl
joergl

Reputation: 2866

Summarizing the discussion from the comments:

The BPEL Designer plugin in eclipse seems rather unstable, at least according to my personal experience. As found out by myrpap however, it seems to work fine in Helios, so one solution would be to use that version instead of Juno.

The option I would suggest is to skip the visual editor altogether and edit the code directly. To set the type of the variable, the appropriate element and namespace definitions have to be added to the process definition. The result should look somehow like this:

<process
    name="WhileSample"
    targetNamespace="http://while.bpel.tps"
    xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/process/executable"
    xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >
    <import .../>
    <partnerLinks... />
    <variables>
        <variable name="iterator" type="ns1:int"/>
    </variables>
    <!-- main sequence goes here -->
</process>

Upvotes: 1

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