This post will try to explain the general life-cycle of an application in WSO2 AppFactory. WSO2 AppFactory is a place where multiple project teams can collaboratively create run and manage enterprise applications[1]. With WSO2 AppFactory users can create an complex application and push it to production within a matter of couple of hours. Figure 1 - App Cloud Create Application Page If you go to WSO2 AppFactory and create an application it will do several operations that generates the resources needed for your application such as Create Repository Generate Sample Code for the Application Create Build Job Create Issue Tracker Project Deploy initial artifact in to PAAS artifact repository etc.. When you hit create application it will create an instance of the application RXT installed in WSO2 AppFactory and then will call a bpel which is hosted in the BPS. Any one can edit this bpel to add their workflow in to it. Currently this will just trigger the AF service to trigger