 | Level: Introductory Thomas Gschwind (thg@zurich.ibm.com), Research Staff, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM
Jana Koehler (koe@zurich.ibm.com), Research Staff Manager, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM
Janette Wong (janette@ca.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Cedric Favre (ced@zurich.ibm.com), PhD Student, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM
Wolfgang Kleinoeder (wbk@zurich.ibm.com), Research Emeritus, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM
Alexander Maystrenko (oma@zurich.ibm.com), PhD Student, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM
Krenar Muhidini, Former Intern, IBM
03 Jun 2009 The IBM® Pattern-based Process Model Accelerators are a
set of plug-ins that add patterns, transformations, and refactorings to your
business process modeling environment. In Part 1 of this series, you will
learn how to compose your business process model by instantiating predefined
patterns, and how to apply complex changes to your model with a single click
by invoking a transformation or refactoring. You also learn how to
automatically detect control-flow errors.
Introduction
This tutorial is part 1 of a series introducing IBM Pattern-based
Process Model Accelerators V2.0 (hereafter referred to as the
accelerators) for WebSphere® Business Modeler (hereafter
referred to as Business Modeler). The accelerators are a set of
plug-ins for Business Modeler that add patterns, transformations, and
refactorings to your business process modeling environment. The
plug-ins also include a feature to automatically detect and correct
control-flow errors.
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With the traditional business process modeling approach, process models
are drawn by dragging and dropping elements on the drawing canvas and
then manually connecting the elements. With the accelerators, you
create business process models of higher quality by composing them
from larger building blocks or by applying semantically correct change
operations to your entire model with a single click. Your models can
contain significantly less modeling errors, and you can see
productivity gains of about 70% compared to the traditional
approach.
This tutorial uses a modeling scenario to show you step-by-step how to
use five patterns, five transformations, and three refactorings. The
V2.0 release of the accelerators contains a total of 8 patterns, 10
transformations and 7 refactorings. This series covers all the
accelerators in detail:
- Part 2 describes all 8 accelerator patterns indepth and shows you
how to configure the Accelerators palette to suit your modeling
needs.
- Part 3 discusses each available transformation in detail, and
provides hints on using transformations.
- Part 4 describes how to improve a model's structure with
refactoring.
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