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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:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/STP/BPMN_Component/EclipseCon2008

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How to get the most of the BPMN modeler

Antoine Toulme

Hugues Malphettes

Intalio, Inc.

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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 seesomething out of place in there, please open a bug about it.

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The bugzilla diagram

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Annotations

The BPMN semantic model is a simple model orientedtowards the best graphical representation

Annotations are needed to add more meaning toshapes BPMN and interoperability models (STP-IM)

Extra information to add capabilities (open a file for example)

Proprietary extensions

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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 theparticipants view example)

Decorate shapes with annotations Filter annotation decorations by context

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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 BPMNgeneration 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: http://wiki.eclipse.org/STP/BPMN_Component/Samples#BPEL_to_

BPMN_generation

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The annotation coding sample

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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 thesystem of providers and services introduced by GMF.

Extending != regenerating and forking

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Extending the modeler

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Conclusion

The BPMN modeler is a graphical modeler to modelbusiness processes.

It is based on the best-of-breed Eclipse technologies GMF, GEF, EMF

It is highly extensible and oriented to consumption bydevelopers.

We want to grow the BPMN modeler community: More documentation coming

Samples, samples, samples

Get community feedback to make the modeler even better

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Acknowledgements

Clap image from Wikimedia, copyright Delphine Mnard for the Tango Project

Thanks to the EclipseCon organizers!

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