| Re: [soa-dev] Eclipse SOA / BPMN |
Hi Matthew, Thank you for your interest and sorry for the slow reply, things were hectic this week. I am putting the soa-dev and mangrove-dev mailing lists in CC so that other people in the community can have the opportunity to help if needed. I completely agree that there is a severe lack of documentation especially for Mangrove. I’m planning to correct this soon. In terms of the BPMN editor, it is certainly ready to use, in fact it’s quite a mature project approaching retirement J There is currently underway an effort to provide a complete rewrite of it compliant with BPMN 2.0, so a new BPMN2 modeller will soon be available. But you can certainly use the existing one in the meantime. FYI, here’s the new BPMN2 project page: http://eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=soa.bpmn2-modeler OK, so if you have all the components from the SOA development update site, you should be ready to create your BPMN diagrams. You should use File/New/Other and then you should find BPMN Diagram as a type of file under the “Other” category. Let me know if this is not the case. Regarding Mangrove could you please say a few words about what kind of functionality you’re looking for (you looking to convert to SCA or other editors, starting from BPMN)? I would also like to point you to Stardust, a very recent addition to Eclipse SOA, which provides a comprehensive suite for business process management. We are in the process of integrating this withing the Eclipse SOA ecosystem. http://www.eclipse.org/stardust/ Hope this helps and feel free to ask questions and indeed make suggestions as you go along. Thanks, From: Matthew Rubenstein [mailto:matthewr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Howdy. I want to use Eclipse (v3.6) to diagram business processes. I see that your SOA projects include BPMN and Mangrove. But I don’t see documentation for installing and getting started using them. In the Eclipse Install New Software… menu (--All Available Sites--) I installed the toplevel SOA Development and all items within it (except Java Workflow Tooling (Incubation), which conflicted with the non-Incubation item). But I don’t see either a new project type or new file type that I can create to edit as a flowchart. The Help… SOA > Install New Tutorials… item doesn’t find any tutorials. The project homepage has many links to either default Eclipse pages or 404. The Mangrove project, which seems to be the main featureset I’m looking for, has even less documentation on the Web (a few slideshows). Is the project software actually ready for users to use? I want to at least use a flowchart editor for BPMN. Thanks for your direction. -- Matthew Rubenstein ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– web: www.use-group.com |