Overview of IBM Business Process Manager (IBPMv8.0)

IBM Business Process Manager (IBPM) provides a platform on which Business Processes can be described, implemented, executed and monitored.

•  BPM goal is efficient business process with visibility.
• The BPM system is the  management of people to people work steps,system to system communication  and person to system interaction.
•  The BPM expected result is the process improvement  that  bring about financial benefits customer and employee satisfaction. 

Process Center:-

  The process center provides a central design time  environment and repository for process applications.      Process Applications are deployed from process center to process server for execution and testing by users.

Process Server:-Process Servers are the components/engines which run the business processes described by BPDs. During development, the processes run on an instance of a Process Server located at the Process Center.

Performance Data Warehouse:-

The Performance Data Warehouse is responsible for collecting and managing data originated by

Process Server instances.  The separation of the Process Servers from the Performance Data Warehouse also allows for reports to be generated without impacting the operation of running processes.

Process Center Console:-

The Process Center Console provides a web based interface for managing the Process Center

maintained  projects. This capability is also available within the IBPM PD thick client tool.

Process Portal:-

The IBPM Process Portal provides the primary end user interface for users to start process instances

and see work tasks awaiting their attention.

Process Admin Console:-

The Process Admin Console is a web based interface for system administrators. It provides a

Wealth of functions for system operations.

 

 

Usage of custom properties in BPEL:-

 Usage of custom properties in BPEL:-

I would like to share useful  scenario  Which I done on custom properties  in BPEL.

Custom properties can be specified for a business process and all of its basic activities, as well  as for inline human task activities, and Java snippets. A custom property has a name and an optional (string) value. This value can be specified during authoring time, and serve as the initial values that can be changed in the runtime instances of the process.

Custom properties are different than query properties. Where custom properties are configured for    activities, query properties are declared on variables and used to determine which parts of a variable are accessible with the query() API function in the runtime environment.

A custom property is a piece of meta data that you can associate with an instance of task. A custom property consists of a name and value pair. Both the names and values are simple character strings. You can set or retrieve a custom property through the human task API when working with an instance of a human task. You can use this data for a variety of purposes, since it is not limited to any one usage pattern.

Scenario:-

I took  simple scenario inorder  to demonstrate custom properties usage. In this scenario customer details can be verified by verifier . So I used Human task component(To-do task). For this scenario, the name of the custom property is chosen to represent the fact that it is an customerId(cno) so the name  customerId  for the name of the property is appropriate. The value of the custom property is much more interesting. Obviously a constant value does not make sense for our solution. I want the value of the custom property to be the value of the customerId(cno)  field in the incoming data. The Human Task Manager provides support for this through a technique called replacement variables. Replacement variables allow us to supply a description of where the data should be obtained that should be used for the value of the property. The syntax of each of the allowable replacement variable encoding is described at the below link

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v6r1mx/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wbit.610.help.tel.ui.doc/topics/crepstff3.html

Follow below step inorder to complete scenario:-

Step 1: created  Customer  business object  and Interface. As shown in below figures.

 

Fig1:

 

Fig2:

 

 

Step2: -I took human task component (To-do task) added created interface and created custom properties with name CustomeId . In Environment tab available in properties.

   Name:-customerId

   Value :- %htm:input.\customerInfo/cno%

 

This should be interpreted as taking the field called cno from the customerInfo operation specified by the input variable. The complete Custom Property definition in the Human Task Editor Environment panel looks as shown.

 

Step3:-

Now open business process choreographer .Here I want to create own View(CustomerList) which displays customers.While displaying instances I want customize view here I am adding one more column CustomerId and using custom properties as value for that column as shown below.

 

I hope you understood concept .