Creating Standalone and Inline BPEL Subprocesses in a BPEL Process

You can create standalone subprocesses in a SOA composite and inline BPEL subprocesses in a BPEL process. A subprocess is a fragment of BPEL code that can be reused within a particular processor by separate processes.

For conceptual information about subprocesses, see Introduction to Standalone and Inline BPEL Subprocess Invocations and Differences Between Oracle SOA Suite Templates and Reusable Subprocesses.

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There is no restriction on one BPEL subprocess calling itself recursively. You must determine if you want to recursively call the same BPEL subprocess and the number of times the subprocess calls occur.
You can create and successfully deploy a SOA composite application that contains only a standalone subprocess. For example, create a SOA composite application and add a standalone subprocess in which you define two parameters for the subprocess and define an assign activity in the subprocess to swap the values of both parameters. However, while a SOA composite application that contains only a standalone subprocess and no other components can be deployed, it has no practical purpose.
A standalone subprocess cannot be shared in the MDS Repository. However, a BPEL process with call activities for calling the subprocess can be shared in the MDS Repository