Exposing a Process as a Web Service

Exposing a Process as a Web Service allows it to be accessed externally by other applications within your enterprise.

Before performing the procedures in this task, ensure that you have created a Process. See Creating a Process Method.

  1. In the Project Navigator, expand the Project containing the Process you are exposing as a Web Service.
  2. Expand Processes.
  3. Right-click on your Process, then select Process Web Service

    The Process Web Services tab is displayed in the Process Editor.

  4. Click Add to create a new Web Service operation.
  5. Provide the required information for each field. See Process Web Service Reference for more information.
  6. Click Ok.

    The new Web Service operation appears in the table. You can more operations as required.

  7. Configure the optional Advanced Options.

    See Process Web Service Reference for more information.

  8. Select File > Save

The process is exposed as a Web Service. If you start the Process Execution Engine using this process, you can view the deployed Web Service at: http://localhost:9000/. See Starting the Process Execution Engine for information.

Parent topic: Process Tasks