A business process portlet connects a portal application to a business process.
WebSphere Process Choreographer, a component of WebSphere Portal v5.1, 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 v5.1 (with the proper configuration).
Business portlets are portlets that interact with the business processing code to provide task processing, process initiation, and other supporting code. Rational® Developer v6.0 provides the development environment for coding, testing and deploying the business portlets.
The steps below give you an idea of the process involved in developing the business application. Complete instructions for using Rational Developer v6.0, WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, and WebSphere Portal with WebSphere Process Choreographer to develop, test, and deploy business applications can be found in the WebSphere Portal Documentation Library for v5.1, under .