When determining whether templates or reusable subprocesses are the best solution for your business use case, it is important to understand the differences:

• Templates

  A template is a customizable, skeletal project, service component, or scope activity. You can drag and drop a template into a SOA composite application or a BPEL process and make additional changes. You essentially are copying and pasting a template. For example, if there are 50 lines of code in a template and you copy it twice to use, the code increases by 100 lines.

• Reusable subprocesses

  A subprocess is a BPEL code snippet intended for a specific purpose. A subprocess that is defined earlier can be called and used as it is. An inline subprocess of 50 lines can be called twice and the parent process code remains at 50 lines, and not 100. Subprocesses perform better and have a smaller memory foot print than templates.