Guidelines for Modeling Process Integration Scenarios

Modeling Aims

A Process Integration Scenario maps the entire message exchange for a collaborative process completely and gives an overview of the process flow. You have the following advantages when defining Process Integration scenarios in the Enterprise Services Builder (Design Tool):

• The Process Integration scenario provides an overview of the process and process flow.

• The Process Integration scenario summarizes all objects that are invovled in the process together: Interface objects, mapping objects and executable integration processes from the Enterprise Services Repository, and product versions from the System Landscape Directory.

  You can access all of these objects from the Process Integration scenario.

• The Process Integration scenario contains all design time information about the process that is required when configuring the process. If you have defined a Process Integration scenario, you can used it as a configuration template. This then largely automates the creation of the relevant objects. Using Process Integration scenarios for more complex collaborative processes is the only option for making the configuration easier to understand.

These targets are the starting point when defining Process Integration scenarios and have to be taken into consideration in the modeling.

Below you will find more details on what you have to consider when modeling the individual components of Process Integration scenarios:

• General Modeling Concept

• Modeling Process Integration Scenarios - General

• Modeling Application Components

• Modeling Actions

• Modeling Connections

• Modeling Process Flow Variants of a Process Integration Scenario