Adding a Receive Activity

Follow these steps to create a receive activity and a global output variable named response. This activity waits for the loan application approver web service's callback operation. The loan application approver web service uses this output variable to send the loan offer result to the client.

To add a receive activity:

From the Components window, drag a Receive activity to the location right after the Invoke activity you created in Adding an Invoke Activity.
Create a variable to hold the receive information by invoking the Create Variable dialog, as you did in Step 3 through Step 7 of Adding an Invoke Activity.

Note:

In BPEL projects that support version 2.0 of the BPEL specification, the Create Variable dialog includes an Initialize tab that enables you to initialize the variable type inline (for example, as a variable, expression, literal, partner link, or property). BPEL 2.0 is the default version when you create a BPEL process. For more information, see How to Initialize Variables with an Inline from-spec in BPEL 2.0.
Double-click the Receive activity and change its name to receive_invoke.
From the Partner Link list, select the partner link (for this example, LoanService is selected).
From the Operation list, select onResult. Do not select the Create Instance check box.
Select the variable you created in Step 3 through Step 7 of Adding an Invoke Activity.
Click OK.

The receive activity and the output variable are created. Because the initial receive activity in the BPEL file (for this example, LoanBroker.bpel) created the initial BPEL process service component instance, a second instance does not need to be created.