Process Designer Express provides the following conversion
functionality:
- Import--Process Designer Express can import Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL) and Unified Modeling Language (UML in XMI
1.1) files for use as a collaboration template. See Importing files.
- Export--Process Designer Express can export your collaboration
template to BPEL or UML (in XMI 1.1) format. See Exporting a collaboration template.
Process Designer Express can import BPEL and UML (in XMI 1.1) files for
use in a collaboration template. Use the information in these files to
create a new template definition.
Perform the following tasks to create a new collaboration template based on
existing BPEL or UML (in XMI 1.1) files:
- Ensure Process Designer Express is open.
- Click File --> Import. The Process Designer Express
Importer opens.
- Select the file type you want to import, and then click Next.
- Select the location of the BPEL or UML source file or files.
- Select the file or files you want to import.
- Note:
- If you are planning to use BPEL files, you must import all three of the
.bpel, .wsdl, and .bpelGUI.xml files. Use
the Ctrl key to select all three files for import.
- Click Next to begin the import process. After the import is
complete, the New Template dialog box opens.
- Select the name of the user project the template belongs to in the Project
field.
- Type the name of the template you are creating in the Template Name
field. A template name can include alphabetic characters, numbers, and
underscores.
- Click OK. Process Designer Express creates the new collaboration
template and populates it with all of the information contained in the source
BPEL or UML files.
You can export your collaboration template into BPEL or UML (in XMI
1.1) format for use in other applications. When a InterChange
Server Express collaboration template is exported to BPEL format, the
following files are created:
- *.bpel--This file contains the main template
information.
- *.wsdl--This file contains information about the external
interface.
- *.bpelGUI.xml--This file contains information about the
graphical representation of activity diagrams. It is used in situations
where BPEL files are imported back into InterChange Server Express.
When a collaboration template is exported to UML (in XMI 1.1), a
*.xmi file is created.
Perform the following steps to export a InterChange Server Express
collaboration template:
- Ensure that Process Designer Express is open and that your collaboration
template has been saved and has compiled without error.
- Click File --> Export. The Process Designer Express
Exporter opens.
- Select the format to which you want to export your template, and then
click Next.
- Select the location in which you want to save the exported template file
or files.
- In the File Name field, specify the name for the exported template
file. If you are exporting to BPEL, do not specify a file
extension in the File Name field.
- Click Next to begin the export process. The Process Designer
Express Exporter dialog shows the progress of the conversion.
- Click Close when the export process has finished.
