Building our example process

It is finally time to put these concepts into practice: let's start building our example process. We will go through building the "Produce music products" process in detail in this chapter: for now, we will simply concentrate on getting the process into the tool. We will worry about adding more interesting complexity at a later stage, once we have the bare bones sorted out. We are at the proof-of-concept stage after all, so there is little point in wasting time on nice to haves.

As a reminder of our To Be process, which we are going to build in the tool, let's have a look at the activity flow diagram that we built in the previous chapter:

Open up the jBPM Designer, click File | New project, expand the JBoss jBPM node, and select Process Project. We'll call the project "Bland Records". On the final screen of the project creation wizard, pull down the drop-down box and select JBoss jBPM 3.2 as the core jBPM location. Click Finish. In the Package Explorer, navigate...