A business process portlet connects a portal application to a business process.
WebSphere Process Choreographer, a component of WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF), provides a runtime environment for processes that are modeled using the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS or BPEL). BPEL is a Web services standard for business process composition. WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition provides a process editor for creating business processes, written using BPEL, to be run on WebSphere Portal 5.1 (with the proper configuration).
Business process portlets are portlets that interact with the business processing code to provide task processing, process initiation, and other supporting code. Rational® Software Development Platform provides the development environment for creating, coding, testing and deploying the business portlets. Business process portlets require some common code to access task or process APIs from the portlet code. Portlet wizards provide options for Basic and Faces portlets that generate the common code. For Faces portlets, visual development features, such as the Page Data view, simplify the process of developing business process portlets.
The steps below provide an idea of the process involved in developing the business application. Additional instructions for using Rational Software Development Platform, WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, and WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation with WebSphere Process Choreographer to develop, test, and deploy business applications can be found in the WebSphere Portal Documentation Library for v5.1, under .