34 Patterns: Building Serial and Parallel Processes for IBM WebSphere Process Server V6
3.3.1 Partners
When modelling business processes, we need to describe the relationship
between a business process and its partners.
A partner can be:
A consumer of a service provided by a business process
A provider of a service, which is used by a business process
Services that a business process invokes and that also invoke the process
3.3.2 Endpoint references
In order for a business process to invoke a service from a partner, the partner
must resolve to an actual service. The endpoint reference describes this binding
between the service and the partner. This binding can be performed when the
business process is modeled, at deployment time, or even at ...