Chapter 5 Building a Collaborative Business Process Model

Understanding the ebXML BPSS Tool Palette

When you create a collaborative BPM, a specific tool Palette corresponding to the process language you have selected is displayed. It allows you to rapidly create the type of collaborative objects you need.

Depending on the tool you click, you display:

A default composite process with a sub-process in composite view mode (Business Transaction tool and Binary Collaboration tool)
A default composite process with the following message <<you can only use shortcut of binary collaboration here>> (MultiParty Collaboration)

For more information on composite view, see section Opening the sub-diagram of a composite process in chapter Building an Analysis Business Process Model.

If you deselect the composite view mode in the contextual menu of these processes, you display composite processes with a stereotype corresponding to the tool you have selected. It can either be a:

Business Transaction stereotype
Binary Collaboration stereotype
MultiParty Collaboration stereotype

These stereotypes are defined in the Profile category of the ebXML BPSS process language accessible from the process language editor.

For more information on how to define stereotypes in a profile, see section Defining a stereotype in chapter Managing Profiles in the Advanced User Documentation.

Tool	Name	Description	Example
	Business Transaction	To create a Business Transaction
	Binary Collaboration	To create a Binary Collaboration
	MultiParty Collaboration	To create a MultiParty Collaboration

When you open the composite process, the ebXML BPSS tool Palette is disabled.

Business Transaction tool

There are several tools to create a Business Transaction (BT); each one creates a Business Transaction process with distinct flows between the requesting and the responding activities. In the ebXML tool Palette, reading from left to right:

The first tool simply creates a requesting flow
The second tool adds a responding flow
In the third tool, a receipt acknowledgment is sent for the requesting flow
In the fourth tool, an acceptance acknowledgment is also sent for the requesting flow
In the fifth tool, a receipt acknowledgment is sent for the responding flow

Binary Collaboration tool

The Binary Collaboration tool creates a Binary Collaboration process. This tool also attaches two organization units as initiating and responding roles and creates an initial choreography inside the Binary Collaboration process. You must complete the choreography by specifying a Business Transaction process for implementation.