About Importing ARIS Solutions
Software AG Designer provides support of model-to-execute (M2E) by enabling you to import an ARIS solution design into a process project within Designer. An ARIS solution design can contain any or all of the following assets:
Process: a BPMN collaboration diagram. The diagram is exported from ARIS as an XPDL file and is imported into
Designer as a .process file.
Data: a data structure diagram. The diagram is exported from ARIS as an XSD file and is imported into the
Integration Server as an IS document.
Screen: a screen design diagram. The diagram is exported from ARIS as an XHTML file and is imported into
Designer as an XHTML file in an
webMethods OpenUI project.
All asset types are optional. For example, a solution design can contain only data, or screens, or all assets types.
The export of the ARIS content is done in the ARIS Architect. The export action generates a container file in zipped format with the filename extension "m2e". The solution import wizard in the Designer can import this m2e file and generate the required assets (.process, IS Document type, and XHTML files).
The process diagram in ARIS may have references to data in a Data Structure diagram. In this case the import wizard retains these references between the webMethods assets. (for example, the .process file will reference IS documents types).
