  The analysis of exclusive meson leptoproduction (DVMP) within the handbag
approach is reviewed and the parametrization of the generalized parton
distributions (GPDs) is discussed in some detail with the main interest focused
of the GPDs H and E. Applications of the GPDs extracted from DVMP to other hard
exclusive processes as for instance deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS)
and an evaluation of Ji's sum rule are also presented.
