The capability of graphically visualizing a business process is a powerful and necessary component of any application integration offering. iWay Designer, a Windows based design-time tool, provides a visual and user-friendly method of creating a business process, also called a process flow.
Through a process flow, you control the sequence in which tasks are performed and the destination of the output from each task in the process flow. In the Designer user interface, you can create a project that holds one or more process flows. Each process flow you create is a single unit of work made up of one or more process objects, such as Email, Adapter, or Emitter, graphically represented by icons and connected by lines that establish a relationship between the objects.
Designer provides a unified iWay toolset for designing and integrating process flows. Through Designer, you can perform the following functions:
Designer also offers concurrency control by checking process flows in and out of a repository. This prevents people from simultaneously working on a process flow. For more information on checking process flows in and out, see Using Repositories.
When the design of a process flow is complete, you can confirm that the objects and their relationships meet the design criteria through the validation option. You can also test the process flow by executing it with an actual input document to see results. When you are satisfied that the process flow is stable, you can publish it, making it available to iWay Service Manager. For details on compiling, validating, testing, and publishing a process flow, see Creating Process Flows.
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