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Chapter 5. Creating a Process Project in
the KIE Workbench
Even if jBPM6 uses BPMN 2.0, an XML-based standard, to define its processes, it's just
not practical to write such files with a simple text editor. We need a way to define our pro-
cess in a user-friendly environment that will aid both technical and non-technical people
who know about the specifics of the steps involved in a process to define a process defini-
tion.
The BPMN 2.0 specification not only defines the behavior syntax for our processes, but
also the look and feel for the process diagrams as well. This chapter will show you a step-
by-step approach to learn how to use the jBPM6 Web Process Designer that lives inside the
KIE Workbench to define BPMN 2.0 files using a diagram-writing UI. In this chapter, we
will learn:
• To define our processes
• To test our processes with simulations
• To extend the BPMN 2.0 model to add our own types of tasks
