Title: bpelc Command
Category: documentation

## Overview

The `bpelc` commandline tool compiles [BPEL4WS 1.1](bpel4ws-11.html) or [WS-BPEL 2.0] processes for execution by the ODE runtime engine.

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## Synopsis

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	bpelc [-q|-v|-vv] [-o directory] [-rr rrfile] [-wsdl uri] url ... url

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## Description

The `bpelc` commandline tool compiles BPEL processes (either 1.1 or 2.0) for execution by the ODE runtime engine.  The compiler will automatically detect the version of the process and configure itself appropriately.

For more information about the BPEL compiler, see [Compiler Toolchain].

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## Options

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			<th>Option/Argument</th>
			<th>Effect</th>
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			<td><code>-o directory</code></td><td>the directory to write the output files to.</td>
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			<td><code>-rr rrfile</code></td><td>the filename of the ZIP resource repository to read WSDL definitions from.  If this parameter is not specified, the compiler will dereference URIs directly as URLs.</td>
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			<td><code>-wsdl uri</code></td><td>for BPEL4WS 1.1 processes, the URI of WSDL definitions to include from the ZIP resource repository.  This hint is ignored for WS-BPEL 2.0 processes in favor of the <code>&lt;bpel:import&gt;</code> mechanism.</td>
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			<td><code>url ... url</code></td><td>the URLs of BPEL process definitions to be compiled.</td>
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			<td><code>-q|-v|-vv</code></td><td>adjust the verbosity of logging output.</td>
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			<td><code>-h</code></td><td>prints a synopsis to the console and exits.</td>
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    You have to use the full path for the bpel process file, like:
      *./bpelc ./HelloWorld.bpel*, not -./bpelc HelloWorld.bpel-
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