If you think you can export BPMN from IBM, that you can open it in Camunda Modeler, you might be in for a surprise. The IBM BPMN export was found to not include the diagram information that tools such as Camunda Modeler use to display the diagram. In this tutorial, we'll cover two approaches, using utilities developed by our team of consultants to help you create a complete diagram that can be opened and viewed not only in Camunda Modeler, but in any BPMN-compliant design tool.
Camunda Consulting team has created a set of freely available tools for migrating process flows. IBM process thread migration tools can be found here . You will notice that there are currently two tools for IBM. One is a BPMN converter and the other is a Teamworks file aka .twx converter. We will first look at the BPMN converter tutorial and then move on to the .twx converter.
BPMN Converter Guide
The BPMN Converter can be found here . You will notice that this is a Maven project and can be opened in almost any IDE. Eclipse and Intellij are two of the most popular IDEs. But first, you will need to clone or download the migration tools repository - you can do this here .
For this tutorial, we will be using Eclipse as our IDE.
- After cloning or downloading the Git repository, copy the contents of the IBM BPMN Tools Export Converter repository into a fresh workspace. If, for example, your Git repository is at C: \ gitRepos , then you can find the IBM BPMN converter at C: \ gitRepos \ migrate-to-camunda-tools \ IBM \ create diagram from exported BPMN .
- Copy the entire folder to the workspace of your choice.
- Next, launch Eclipse and select the workspace where you just copied the content. Once Eclipse starts, go to File> Import> General> Projects from Folder or Archive .
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BPMN diagram generated Diagram ./src/main/resources/TWXOriginal.xml converted from IBM .twx export and can be found at ./src/main/resources/TWXConverted.bpmn
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Either way (or using your preferred method) you should get the jar file in the / target folder. Copy this jar anywhere and enter the following command in terminal:
java -jar yourGeneratedJarFile . jar “your input file” “your output file”
Like this! Please feel free to leave feedback on the forum and see this Git repository for additional converters as they become available.