A component process is a succession of commands that are called steps. Steps can manipulate files, run system commands, set properties, pass information to other steps, and run programs. Steps are provided by automation plug-ins. Processes are designed with the drag-and-drop process editor where you drag plug-in steps onto the design editor and configure them as you go. Several plug-ins come with the product and others are available, which work with many different types of software. In this tutorial you use two plug-ins, both of which come with the product: FileUtils and IBM UrbanCode Deploy. A component can have any number of processes defined for it, but a component must have at least one process.
In this lesson, you create a deployment process for the helloWorld component. Later, you create an application process that uses the component process to deploy the component.
To create the component process: