Best Practice: When to not use the BPEL extensions

The BPEL extensions exclusive to the IBM® Integration Designer BPEL process editor provide such a significant enhancement to the BPEL language that you may wonder why not to use them. Here are some possibilities.

When you first create a BPEL process, you are given the opportunity to disable the extensions. In order to help you with this decision, here are some cases when you would NOT want to have the extension enabled:

• When you are designing the process to be used or edited in another set of tools.
• When you are planning on executing the process in a runtime environment other than IBM Process Server.
• When you want to exchange information with a business partner who is not using the IBM Integration Designer or IBM Process Server set of tools.