This section provides an overview of the collaboration development process,
which includes the following high-level steps:
- Install and set up the IBM InterChange Server Express software (including
the Java Development Kit and all other required third-party products).
See the InterChange Server Express system installation guide for your platform
for specific installation and configuration instructions.
- Design and implement the collaboration.
The stages of collaboration development are as follows:
- Design the business process that the collaboration will implement.
- Create the business object definitions.
- Create the collaboration template, including meta-information and
definitions.
- Create each scenario and its activity diagram.
- Customize any required code fragments.
- Create the message text.
- Compile the template.
- Create a collaboration object from the collaboration template.
- Test and debug the collaboration.
- Deploy the collaboration to the runtime environment.
Figure 4 provides a visual overview of the collaboration development
process and a quick reference to chapters where you can find information on
specific topics.
- Note:
- Some of the overall collaboration development tasks fall outside the somewhat
more narrow scope of developing a collaboration template, and therefore are
not documented in this guide. For each of these tasks, Figure 4 provides a reference to the appropriate document in the
InterChange Server Express library.
Note that if a team of people is available for collaboration
development, the major tasks of developing a collaboration can be done in
parallel by different members of the development team.
Figure 4. Overview of the collaboration development tasks

