Build it yourself

As you complete this sample tutorial, check your entries carefully. You might want to work from a printed copy of the sample documentation so that you can check-off each step as you perform it. (A PDF version of the documentation is included with the artifacts that you download.) An experienced Business Process Management (BPM) developer would be able to find mistakes, such as wrong or skipped entries; however, a new BPM developer might have difficulty identifying errors.

Lessons in this module

• Modeling
  During the modeling phase, you will use WebSphere Business Modeler to build a model that represents the Clips and Tacks business process for handling incoming orders. There are several tasks to complete during this phase:
• Integration development
  During the integration development phase, you will use WebSphere Integration Developer to develop a business process and business rules, generate Java components, and create the user interface. Tasks to complete during this phase:
• Deploy the Clips and Tacks Order Handling business process
  Export the sample to the WebSphere Business Monitor for deploying to the runtime.
• Test the Clips and Tacks Order Handling business process
  After deploying the application, test the process.
• Monitor the business process
  Because the project is rebuilt and redeployed to the server every time that you save a change, which will slow down your monitor model creation, use Add or Remove Projects to remove both of the projects from the server.
• Generate executable artifacts for the monitor model and deploy to the server
  Now you will use WebSphere Integration Developer to deploy the monitor model to the WebSphere Business Monitor server.
• Configure Action Services for business situation events
  Next configure WebSphere Business Monitor’s Action Services to create alerts when business situation events are received. The situation events are sent from the monitor model as outbound events. The alerts will be visible in the Alert view on your dashboard. You do not need an LDAP server to test the situation events as was necessary in previous releases.
• Exercise the model by running events
  Now you will use the Lotus Forms client to run process instances. You access it by entering the URL http://localhost:9080/ClipsAndTacksUI in an internet browser. For more information, refer to the Running and testing the application section.
• Create the business dashboard
  Now you will create a business dashboard. You will add views to the dashboard and configure them.
• Debug information
  This section contains the debug information you can use for this sample.