Comp150CPA Homework Exercise 6: Business Process Modeling

Overview

In groups of 2-5 people, please create a BPMN model that describes the business process for a web-based auction such as Ebay. Include pools for user, auction, and payment service (e.g., Paypal). Describe item selection, bidding, and payment.

Hints

For this assignment, it is much easier to work with Eclipse because it will repair your errors. You will need the BPMN plugin available at either
 
http://download.eclipse.org/stp/updates/helios/
for Eclipse 3.6.* or
 
http://download.eclipse.org/stp/updates/helios/
For Eclipse 3.5.* (recommended). Install everything.

Note: the previous download I recommended:

 
http://download.eclipse.org/stp/bpmn-modeler/1.0.2/updates/
wasn't complete enough to run. It generates exceptions unless the whole SOA package is installed. These exceptions persist for projects created before installing the whole package. So you should delete anything you created before downloading this.

Then, create an empty generic project via

File/New/Project.../General/Project
and create a BPMN diagram inside the project via
File/New/Other.../Other/Bpmn Diagram

Submitting completed assignments

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