What is webmethods Flow Elements and webMethods flow language

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In this article let's understand what do you mean by flow elements, Flow Language and why it is used.

Each programming languages has its own name to differentiate one language from  another, given by the developers. It has its own story why the name is called so. May that be Java, PHP, C, C++ many more. But when some one asks you what's the language you use for webMethods, what's your answer??. If you are a webmethods developer you can easily guess it ;-). If not don't worry here is the answer for you.


That's called webMethods Flow language. Because using webMethods inbuilt flow elements developers write the programs and hence its called webMethods Flow language.


Basic webmethods flow elements are :
1. MAP
2. LOOP
3. BRANCH
4. REPEAT
5. SEQUENCE
6. INVOKE
7. EXIT

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