BPEL and Java Cookbook

Initializing a variable with an inline from-spec

In the previous recipe, we explored how variables are initialized in a BPEL process. The recipe explained the initialization of variables using XML literals. This recipe explains the alternative way of initializing variables with an inline from-spec. The difference between the two mentioned recipes is that the initialization of a variable over an XML literal is performed from the assign activity, while initialization over an inline from-spec is performed at the variable definition.

Tip

The initialization of variables using an inline from-spec is only supported for BPEL 2.0 processes!

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will create an empty synchronous BPEL 2.0 process. We will reuse the request and response ...