You can use Process Developer to design a process using top-down or bottom-up techniques. In the top-down technique, you sketch out your process by dropping down activities within a bounding box that automatically contains sequenced activities. You then add all the necessary information to bind the activities to an implementation and add decision-making to make your sketch a working process. In the bottom-up technique, you use the definitions of the implementation that are available when you begin process creation. This tutorial covers both design techniques.

After completing Part 1 of the tutorial, you will be able to:

When you are done, go to Tutorial Part 2: Planning and Designing a Process .

Tip

: Set a Help Preference to display Help in an external browser. This lets you see this tutorial at all times, especially when a modal dialog is open. To set a Help Preference, select

Window > Preferences > Help

. Next, select

In an external browser

within the "Open help contents" picklist, as shown in the following illustration.

Note:

The illustrations of dialog boxes and wizards (for example, font and button color) that you will see in this tutorial can look different from one version of Eclipse to another and your operating system may also display them differently than are shown here.