Chapter 1 About This Book

Subject

This book describes the PowerDesigner Business Process Model, including how to create a BPM, build each of the available diagrams, and generate and reverse engineer process language files.

Audience

This book assumes that you are an experienced Windows user with some experience in business process modeling.

Documentation primer

For information about the complete documentation set provided with PowerDesigner, see the "Getting Started with PowerDesigner" chapter of the Core Features Guide .

Typographic conventions

PowerDesigner documentation uses special typefaces to help you readily identify specific items:

monospace text (normal and bold)

Used for: Code samples, commands, compiled functions and files, references to variables.

Example: declare user_defined..., the BeforeInsertTrigger template.
bold text

Used for: New terms.

Example: A shortcut has a target object.
small caps

Used for: Key names.

Example: Press the enter key.

Bibliography

The Workflow reference Model - http://www.wfmc.org.

Business Process Model Language Specification - http://www.bpmi.org/.

Document: Business Process Specification Schema - http://www.ebxml.org/.

Alan Kotok, David R. Webber, David RR Webber - ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet - New Riders Publishing, 2001.

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services Specification –
http://www- 106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpel/.