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JBoss jBPM Designer Getting Started Guide How to create your first process definition

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Table of Contents

Target Audience (iii)

Preface (iv)

1.JBoss jBPM Designer Installation (1)

2.Your First JBoss jBPM Process:jBAY (9)

e the Creation Wizard to Create the jBAY Process (9)

2.2.Drawing the jBAY Process Definition (15)

3.Test Driven Process Development (19)

4.jBAY Revisited:Completing the Process with Actions (20)

Target Audience

All developers and process analists who are beginning to use JBoss jBPM should read this Getting Started guide.It will give them a jumpstart showing how to create a process definition.

Preface

This document introduces the use of the JBoss jBPM designer to create workflow processes.It will help first time users with the following tasks:

•Install the jBPM Designer Eclipse plugin available from the jBPM update site.

•Setup a new Eclipse project and using the creation wizard to create an empty process definition.

•Use the designer palette to draw the first processdefinition.

•Show how the xml processdefinition can be inspected as an xml file.

If you have questions,please feel free to contact Koen Aers or Tom Baeyens for more information.

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JBoss jBPM Designer Installation The JBoss jBPM Designer comes as a plugin for the well-known Eclipse IDE.So a prerequisite to install the De-signer is of course that you have a version of Eclipse up and running.If you don't have an Eclipse copy,you can download it from .Having a copy of Eclipse up and running,you can use the built in plugin installation mechanism.

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Your First JBoss jBPM Process:jBAY e the Creation Wizard to Create the jBAY Process

Follow the next steps to create a new process archive file.As you will see later this file contains the process defini-tion in the so-called process-definition.xml file as well as the graphical information needed to represent this process graphically in a file called process-diagram.xml.The*.par package format is a simple zip fille.Note that both the name of these two files as the package format of the process archive can and probably will change in the future.

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Figure2.4.New Process1