BPM v7.
5 IBM Integration Designer
Demo / Lab
Lab Exercise
IBM BPM 7.5 Proof Of Technology
Lab Number 7
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Contents
LAB 7
Contents
IBM INTEGRATION DESIGNER DEMO ............................................................................................................ 4
1.1
BRING UP INTEGRATION DESIGNER ............................................................................................................ 4
1.2
THE VIEWS IN INTEGRATION DESIGNER .................................................................................................... 12
1.3
THE EDITORS IN INTEGRATION DESIGNER ................................................................................................. 13
1.4
SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................. 13
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Lab 7
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IBM Integration Designer Demo
Some of the features of the IBM Integration Designer (IID), commonly known as the Integration Designer
would be demonstrated to you while some other features you will explore on your own.
1.1
Bring up Integration Designer
In this section, you will explore the IBM Integration Designer functionality by opening a workspace,
connecting to the Process Center and viewing the parts of a project.
You will be shown the server details and how to quickly test a component. in to the Process Portal,
explore some of its features, view process context of an instance, create a new process instance, view
the history of your work, work with help requests that other process participants made to you, and see
any process alerts.
1.1.1
Login to IID
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Start Programs IBM IBM Integration Designer IBM Integration Designer 7.5 or click
the IBM Integration Designer icon on the desktop.
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Log in using the User Name admin and Password admin, then click Login.
Alternatively, you could have clicked the icon on the desktop.
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You will be asked to select a workspace. For this lab/demo you can choose a new
workspace called test.
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Click OK.
Workspace
Integration Designer stores all projects in a folder called a
workspace. The recommendation is to have a separate
workspaces folder for all your projects.
Warning
Do not check the box that says to Use this as the default
and do not ask again.
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The workbench gets loaded. You will then be asked to log in to the Process Center.
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You have the choice to click Cancel and directly switch to the Business
Integration perspective.
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In this lab we will connect to the Process Center. Make sure the URL to the
Process Center and credentials are entered as shown.
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Click Login.
By default you will be in the Business Integration perspective displayed in a 3-pane
layout.
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Section
Description
Navigation pane that displays the project tree. It provides a logical grouping of
resources. There are 2 main project types modules and libraries. A module
represents the basic unit of deployment. It is packaged in an EAR file. A library
is not deployable. It holds artifacts that can be shared between multiple
modules
The Main Menu and Toolbar icons.
The top level menu items are: File, Edit, Navigate, Search, Project, Window,
Help
The main canvas in a tab layout. This is where the item you are currently
working on, gets displayed. The preceding image shows the Getting Started
page.
Tabbed area of the various Views. The preceding image shows the Servers
View.
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A quick walkthrough of the Getting Started screen shows us the Help, Samples and Tutorials
and many other helpful links.
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If you click the green Change Environment button.
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In the pop-up screen you can choose the capability settings. For the POT, you may
choose only IBM Process Server or leave the default setting with all three boxes
checked.
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Click OK.
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Close the Getting Started screen by clicking on the X in the tab. You will be left with a
canvas that shows Start working and Learn more.
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The main menu has the following items: File, Edit, Navigate, Search, Project, Window, Help. The
two most commonly used menu options are File and Window.
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You will use the File menu option to
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Open and close files
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Import and export projects
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Rename components
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Switch workspaces
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Exit the workbench
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Create new artifacts
When you click File->New, you have the option to create a plethora of components as
shown below.
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A wizard will guide you through the creation of each component.
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You will use the Window menu option to
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Open a new window or change a perspective
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Show views
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Customize, reset, or close a perspective
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Change preferences
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Switch to Process Center
On the right of the Toolbar icons, you will see the perspectives that have been accessed.
The current perspective (Business Integration) is highlighted. You can click on Process
Center to switch to the Process Center perspective.
The familiar looking Process Center will be displayed. There are two main differences between
the Process Center accessed via the Process Designer and the Process Center accessed via
the Integration Designer:
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The option next to the Process Apps will now say Open in workspace rather than Open
in Designer.
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Clicking the icon
next to the help icon, will take you to the Business Integration
perspective in Integration Designer.
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All other menu options that we have seen before are available:
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Tabs for Tookits, Servers, and Administrator
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Create and Import Process App
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Launch Getting Started.
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Click that icon to go back to the Business Integration perspective.
1.2
The Views in Integration Designer
Demo
The remaining sections in this lab will be demonstrated by
the Proof of Technology leader.
In this section, you will explore the commonly used Views in IBM Integration Designer namely, Servers,
Properties, Problems and Console. Double-clicking the View tab, displays everything in full screen mode.
1.2.1
Servers View
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Since we successfully connected to the Process Server, the server should be running. We can
look at the server details.
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Properties View
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Properties of any component can be viewed and changed in the Properties View.
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Problems View
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All warnings and errors are shown in the Problems View.
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Console View
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Standard output of the server can be viewed in the Console View.
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The Editors in Integration Designer
In this section, you will explore the commonly used editors in IBM Integration Designer namely, Business
Object Editor, Interface Editor, Assembly Editor, Business Process Editor, and Human Task Editor.
1.3.1
Business Object Editor
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You use this to create and map business objects (BOs).
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Interface Editor
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The Interface Editor is used to create / modify interfaces.
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Assembly Editor
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Service components are assembled in the Assembly Editor to create the Assembly Diagram.
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Business Process Editor
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Also known as the BPEL Editor, it is used to create business processes.
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Human Task Editor
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When creating or editing human tasks you will use the human task editor.
1.4
Summary
In this lab, you were exposed to some of the capabilities available within the IBM Integration Designer.
The POT leader should have demonstrated some additional features of Integration Designer.
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