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SMILA/BPEL Designer
< SMILA
This page describes how to edit SMILA pipelines in the BPEL Designer.
Introduction
The BPEL Designer is an eclipse project that offers support for editing WS-BPEL 2.0 processes. Like other eclipse projects it may be extended using plugins. The SMILA project offers such plugins for editing SMILA specific activities (to invoke SMILA "pipelets" from a pipeline).
Installation
BPEL Designer
How to install the BPEL Designer:
- Download the Eclipse Platform Runtime Binary (at least version 3.6.2) from here.
- Unzip the package into an directory of your choice.
- Start eclipse.exe
- Create a workspace.
- Download the BPEL Designer H60 snapshot (Attention: The current BPEL Designer update site and all other versions will not work with our current SMILA plugins due to version conflicts!).
- Open the eclipse menu: Help -> Install New Software...
- Select the downloaded file with [Add...] and [Archive...].
- Select the only available package and click [Finish]
- Exit eclipse
SMILA designer plugins
Install the SMILA plugins org.eclipse.smila.processing.designer.model and org.eclipse.smila.processing.designer.ui into the eclipse installation of the BPEL designer. For example they could be placed into the dropins folder of eclipse.
Now you can edit SMILA pipelines with the BPEL Designer.