Developing an application from a model

IBM WebSphere Business Modeler allows you to develop a model of the application that you want to implement and then import that model into IBM Integration Designer where you can refine it into a sophisticated application. You can continue to develop both the model and the application and keep them synchronized.

The concepts and tasks in this section will help you import a model from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler. They will also show you how to incorporate later changes to the model into the existing application in your workspace. See "Developing iteratively with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler" for instructions on how to continue working in parallel with the two products.

For a high-level description of the wider multiproduct context in which these tasks fit, see the Business process management scenario.

• Project structure exported from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
  In order to use the tools that support iterative development between the model and the application, projects should be imported into IBM Integration Designer in a specific format, consisting of two modules and a library.
• Artifacts imported from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
  IBM WebSphere Business Modeler exports SCA artifacts and BPEL, WSDL, and XSD files that can be imported into IBM Integration Designer to create an implementation for IBM BPM.
• Importing projects from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
  

  You can import a project interchange (PI) file from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler to use as the base for building an application in IBM Integration Designer.

• Developing iteratively with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
  After you have imported a model from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler, you can make revisions to that model and use the synchronize wizards and window to identify changed artifacts and to bring the changes into your workspace. That function allows the business analyst to revise the model while you implement it into a working application.
• Synchronization window
  Use the Synchronization window to compare artifacts exported from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler to artifacts in your IBM Integration Designer workspace and to merge changes into the workspace application.

Scenario: Human workflow management

Related concepts:
Business services: Top-down development

Related tasks:
Organizing projects using integration solutions