Chapter 3. Building your Hello Process Project

It's time to build our first business process application. Adhering to the long-lasting tradition of writing "Hello World" as the first program when we start learning a new language, framework, or application, we will build a Hello World business process. We will start with an overview of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard and Service Data Object (SDO) standard and how they relate to building applications using an SOA approach using WID. Getting the fundamentals about SCA and SDO will provide the reader with an understanding of how to begin to build, test, and deploy business process applications.

By the end of this chapter the aim is to have the reader enabled on the following items and topics:

• Overview of SOA programming model fundamentals including Service Component Architecture (SCA), Service Data Objects (SDOs)

• Also recap/reinforce the fundamental topics including WSDL, XSD, WS-BPEL

• Building the first module project in WID

• Deploying...