End-to-end BPEL business activity monitoring with IBM SOA tools: Part 1: Modeling for process execution with WebSphere Business Modeler

Level: Intermediate

Bhargav Perepa (bvperepa@us.ibm.com), WebSphere Integration Technology Specialist, IBM
Stephanie Parkin (stephp@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Developer, IBM

13 Jun 2007

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This is the first article in a series that journeys through the process of how to develop an end-to-end BPEL business activity monitoring (BAM) solution using IBM tooling. In this first article you build the process model and business process measures in WebSphere Business Modeler that you'll use throughout the series.

Introduction

The new IBM SOA Business Activity Monitoring suite V 6.0.2 supports development of a BPEL BAM solution using these products:

• WebSphere Business Modeler
• WebSphere Integration Developer
• WebSphere Process Server
• WebSphere Monitor Toolkit
• WebSphere Monitor Server

This series takes the readers through a journey of how to develop an end-to-end BPEL BAM solution using IBM tooling. In the process, we highlight the new capabilities of V 6.0.2 tooling and the best practices to use the tooling (when relevant). In this series you learn how to:

• Design a brand new process model using Modeler V 6.0.2 for refinement using WebSphere Integration Developer (BPEL solution)
• Deploy it to WebSphere Process Server
• Define a new business measures (a.k.a. monitor measures) model to measure performance of the process model using Modeler
• Refine the monitor measures model using WebSphere Integration Developer
• Test the model in the Monitor Server Unit Testing Environment and deploy it on Monitor Server

This first article focuses on designing a new process model in WebSphere Business Modeler, and defining the business measures that you'll monitor in later articles. You'll also export the model for use in the other tools.

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Resources

• IBM WebSphere Business Process Management Version 6.0 information center
  
  
• Using Loops in WebSphere Business Modeler v6 to improve simulations and export to BPEL (developerWorks, March 2007)
  
  
• Process anti-patterns: How to avoid the common traps of business process modeling, Part 1 (developerWorks, February 2007)
  
  
• Business Process Execution Language for Web Services version 1.1 (developerWorks, February 2007)
  
  
• Transforming models from WebSphere Business Modeler to WebSphere Integration Developer (developerWorks, May 2005)
  
  
• Using WebSphere Business Modeler, Monitor, and Process Server for BPM (WB170 or VB170)
  
  
• WebSphere Business Modeler: Process Mapping, Simulation, and Analysis (WB182 or VB182)
  
  
• WebSphere Business Modeler: Process Mapping and Analysis (BI184 or VB184)
  
  
• Designing for Performance Measurement Using WebSphere Business Monitor (WB189 or VB189)
  
  
• WebSphere Business Modeler information
  
  
• WebSphere Integration Developer information
  
  
• Redbook: Business Process Management: Modeling through Monitoring Using WebSphere V6 Products
  
  
• Redbook: Best Practices for Using WebSphere Business Modeler and Monitor
  
  
• Redbooks: Patterns: SOA Foundation - Business Process Management Scenario
  
  
• IBM Modeler User's Group (IMUG)
  
  
• Sharing business processes in a team environment using WebSphere Business Modeler and CVS (developerWorks, February 2007)
  
  
• developerWorks WebSphere development tools
  
  
• developerWorks Websphere business integration
  
  

• WebSphere Business Modeler Trial

About the authors

		Bhargav Perepa is a WebSphere IT Specialist with IBM Federal Software Group in the Washington D.C. area. He was a WebSphere developer at the IBM Austin WebSphere Development Lab and has previous Smalltalk, C++ development experience. Bhargav holds a Masters degree in Computer Sciences from IIT, Chicago and an MBA degree from UT-Austin, Texas.

		Stephanie Parkin is a Senior Software Developer working on the IBM developerWorks site. She currently works on information architecture, and content editing and acquisitions for the WebSphere development tools zone. Stephanie has co-authored several books on visual programming with IBM development tools. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

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