Building a collaboration template

This chapter describes how to create and modify a collaboration template definition. You must perform the following tasks:

  1. Create the template definition. See Creating a collaboration template for more information.
  2. Provide information about the template's properties. See Providing template property information for more information.
  3. Define a scenario. See Defining scenarios for more information.
  4. Create an activity diagram for the scenario you defined. See Creating an activity diagram for general information, and then refer to Using activity diagrams for detailed instructions.
  5. Define additional scenarios as needed, and create the associated activity diagrams.
  6. Create a message file for the template. See Creating the message file for more information.
  7. Compile the collaboration template. See Compiling a collaboration template for more information.
  8. Optionally, test the collaboration. You can use the Test Connector in the Integrated Testing Environment to verify that your collaboration works as planned. See Testing a collaboration for more information.

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