Chapter 10. Plug-in

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite comes with a plug-in for Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio to provide support for the development of business processes in the Eclipse-based environment, such as debugging and testing. It also provides a graphical Process Designer for business process editing.

Note that the repository structure follows the maven structure and is described in Chapter 3, Project.

For instructions on how to install and set up the plug-in, see the Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite Installation Guide.

10.1. Creating BPM Project

Prerequisite

Ensure that you have installed Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite and Red Hat JBoss BRMS plug-ins and runtime environments. For more information, see Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite Installation Guide.

To create a BPM project:

  1. On the main menu of Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, click FileNewOther…​.
  2. Choose jBPMjBPM project.
  3. In the Create New jBPM Project dialog, select the required content and click Next.
  4. If you did not decide for project with online examples, specify the project name, location, and type:

    • Java and jBPM Runtime classes: select the runtime to be used by the project or click Manage Runtime Definitions…​ and define a new runtime (for details on runtime resources, see the Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite Installation Guide).
    • Maven: specify maven properties of your project.