Object Life Cycle Explorer for WebSphere Business Modeler

Process modeling has proven to be an essential tool for the analysis, design, and implementation of applications that automate business process logic. As part of achieving a business goal, a business process typically manipulates several business objects, transforming their states as the process progresses.

Understanding the complete state evolution of a single business object is often required for monitoring, governance, and compliance purposes, but eliciting such object life cycle information correctly from complex process models can be challenging.

Object Life Cycle Explorer for WebSphere Business Modeler alleviates this problem by allowing one to analyze and design an application from both the process and the object life cycle perspectives.

This technology is a set of plug-ins for WebSphere Business Modeler, a tool that natively supports modeling of business processes, business objects (referred to as business items), resources, etc. WebSphere Business Modeler 6.1 also allows the user to define a set of possible states for a business item and associate states with object flows in a process model.

Object Life Cycle Explorer for WebSphere Business Modeler