Chapter 12 Reverse Engineering in a BPM

Reverse Engineering into a New BPM

You can reverse engineer process language files into a new BPM to create a new diagram and have a global view of the reversed objects.

ebXML

You cannot select several ebXML process language files to reverse engineer into a new BPM.

To reverse engineer process language files into a new BPM:

1. Select File→Reverse Engineer→Process Language to display the New Business Process Model dialog box.
2. Click the Share radio button.
3. Select a process language in the list.
   
4. <optional> When you reverse into a new BPM, you can select one or several extended model definitions to reverse at the same time by clicking the Extended Model Definitions tab, and select the extended model definitions of your choice.
   
   For more information on extended model definitions, see chapter Extended Model Definitions Reference Guide, in the Advanced User Documentation.
5. Click OK.
   
   Depending on the process language the corresponding dialog box is displayed to let you select files: for BPEL4WS or WS-BPEL file the reverse engineering dialog box is displayed, for ebXML, a standard file selection box is displayed.
6. Click OK to start reverse engineering.
   
   A progress box is displayed. The processes are added to your model. They are visible in the diagram and in the Browser. They are also listed in the Reverse tab of the Output window, located at the bottom part of the main window.

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