Integration Designer Lab

BPM v7.5 – IBM Integration Designer Demo / Lab

Lab Exercise

IBM BPM 7.5 Proof Of Technology

Lab Number 7

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LAB 7 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 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

__1. 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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__a. Log in using the User Name admin and Password admin, then click Login. Alternatively, you could have clicked the icon on the desktop.

__b. You will be asked to select a workspace. For this lab/demo you can choose a new workspace called test.

__c. 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.

__d. The workbench gets loaded. You will then be asked to log in to the Process Center.

__i. You have the choice to click Cancel and directly switch to the Business Integration perspective.



__ii. In this lab we will connect to the Process Center. Make sure the URL to the Process Center and credentials are entered as shown.

__iii. Click Login.

__e. By default you will be in the Business Integration perspective displayed in a 3-pane layout.



Section Description

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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

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The Main Menu and Toolbar icons.

The top level menu items are: File, Edit, Navigate, Search, Project, Window, Help

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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.

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Tabbed area of the various Views. The preceding image shows the Servers View.

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__2. A quick walkthrough of the Getting Started screen shows us the Help, Samples and Tutorials and many other helpful links.

__a. If you click the green Change Environment button.

__b. 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.

__c. Click OK.

__d. 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.



__3. 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.

__a. You will use the File menu option to

__i. Open and close files

__ii. Import and export projects

__iii. Rename components

__iv. Switch workspaces

__v. Exit the workbench

__vi. Create new artifacts

__b. When you click File->New, you have the option to create a plethora of components as shown below.

__i. A wizard will guide you through the creation of each component.



__c. You will use the Window menu option to

__i. Open a new window or change a perspective

__ii. Show views

__iii. Customize, reset, or close a perspective

__iv. Change preferences



__v. Switch to Process Center

__d. 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.

__4. 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:

__a. The option next to the Process Apps will now say Open in workspace rather than Open in Designer.

__b. Clicking the icon next to the help icon, will take you to the Business Integration perspective in Integration Designer.

__5. All other menu options that we have seen before are available:

__a. Tabs for Tookits, Servers, and Administrator

__b. Create and Import Process App

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__c. Launch Getting Started.

__6. 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

__7. Since we successfully connected to the Process Server, the server should be running. We can look at the server details.

1.2.2 Properties View

__8. Properties of any component can be viewed and changed in the Properties View.

1.2.3 Problems View

__9. All warnings and errors are shown in the Problems View.

1.2.4 Console View

__10. Standard output of the server can be viewed in the Console View.



1.3 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

__11. You use this to create and map business objects (BOs).

1.3.2 Interface Editor

__12. The Interface Editor is used to create / modify interfaces.

1.3.3 Assembly Editor

__13. Service components are assembled in the Assembly Editor to create the Assembly Diagram.

1.3.4 Business Process Editor

__14. Also known as the BPEL Editor, it is used to create business processes.

1.3.5 Human Task Editor

__15. 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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