How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Before we start This tutorial includes a BPMN modeling and two coding samples Requirements Notebook Java 5 or 6 Eclipse 3.3 Eclipse BPMN We provide the contents of the tutorial on CD-ROM and USB stick Eclipse build with BPMN modeler for Windows, Mac, Linux Slides (PPT and PDF) Samples code Tune your browser to the Eclipse wiki:
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 How to get the most of the BPMN modeler Antoine Toulme Hugues Malphettes Intalio, Inc.
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Goals and scope of the tutorial Demonstrate the modeler Model a business process to show how to deal with bugs Show the interaction with annotations and decorators Develop an interaction with the modeler Build your own drag and drop action Decorate annotations Extending the modeler Get your own edit parts Rename the editor and more
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 About us - Intalio Located in Palo Alto, CA BPM based on standards BPEL WSDL XForm Eclipse foundation member Involved in Open source BPMN component Apache ODE Buildr, Tempo...
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 What's in the box A SOA Tools component Created in August 2006 Two active committers Community growing well Join us on #eclipse-stp, or post to the STP newsgroup Revamped the wiki recently Looking for community help to gather more samples Due diligence process in BPMN
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 The BPMN modeler A graphical editor to model business processes Support for BPMN 1.0 and BPMN 1.1 Concentrating on the graphical aspects of the specification Semantic model based on EMF Graphical aspects with GEF and GMF Going 1.0 with Ganymede Implemented internationalization
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Modelling in BPMN BPMN is used to represent business processes Business process are both representing sequential actions for a participant and messages between several participants. We choose to represent one participant with one pool The sample we will model together could potentially be modelled in different ways We made certain choices to show you as many cool features as possible Please pardon our business analysts skills: if you see something out of place in there, please open a bug about it.
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 The bugzilla diagram
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Annotations The BPMN semantic model is a simple model oriented towards the best graphical representation Annotations are needed to add more meaning to shapes BPMN and interoperability models (STP-IM) Extra information to add capabilities (open a file for example) Proprietary extensions
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 The annotations framework The BPMN modeler offers an annotation framework Add annotations to shapes by drag and drop Add and manage annotations by other means (see the participants view example) Decorate shapes with annotations Filter annotation decorations by context
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 The annotation coding sample Annotate a diagram with bug references Ideally you would like to have a Mylin task view, and drop bugs on your diagram. You want to keep track of the bug number on the shape. This coding sample also features the use of the BPMN generation API Just a helper class to help you create semantic elements and their views without too much hassle. More about the generation API in the BPEL to BPMN sample: BPMN_generation
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 The annotation coding sample
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Extending the modeler Rebrand the modeler You can rebrand the modeler by subclassing it Customize You can customize pretty much everything. Custom palette Custom popup toolbar Change the edit parts Add menu items, toolbar items Most of those customizations are made possible with the system of providers and services introduced by GMF. Extending != regenerating and forking
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Extending the modeler
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Conclusion The BPMN modeler is a graphical modeler to model business processes. It is based on the best-of-breed Eclipse technologies GMF, GEF, EMF It is highly extensible and oriented to consumption by developers. We want to grow the BPMN modeler community: More documentation coming Samples, samples, samples Get community feedback to make the modeler even better
How to get the most of the BPMN modeler | © 2008 by Antoine Toulme and Hugues Malphettes; made available under the EPL v1.0 Acknowledgements Clap image from Wikimedia, copyright Delphine Ménard for the Tango ProjectWikimedia Thanks to the EclipseCon organizers!
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