Best of API tutorials for Business Process

Management in 2015
Amy Reinholds (amy_reinholds@us.ibm.com)
developerWorks BPM managing editor
IBM

25 November 2015

In a digital world, business services need to be digital. You can think of application
programming interfaces (APIs) as the glue that connects services, applications, and systems,
or as the basic grammar for how digital businesses communicate about their capabilities and
share data. As you look ahead to 2016, first look back to the best tutorials this past year about
APIs for IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) and IBM Operational Decision Manager
(ODM).
APIs are essential to driving your organization's digital transformation, innovation, and new
opportunities of the future. While APIs are not new in computer programming, the open standards
that allow digital enterprises to use business services in a consistent way are new. The following
tutorials can guide you in working in the new API economy.
I've selected the best API tutorials for IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) and IBM
Operational Decision Manager (ODM) that were published in 2015. The developerWorks Business
Process Management zone has covered topics ranging from using IBM BPM Representational
State Transfer (REST) APIs, to integrating logging APIs with IBM ODM, and creating integration
APIs in IBM BPM to use with IBM Cloud Orchestrator. If your favorite didn't make the list, post
it in the Comments. If you'd like to share your experience in using APIs as part of your digital
transformation, contact me!

Manage and recover IBM Business Process Manager processes

efficiently with the REST API
Bala Gopalan
This tutorial demonstrates how you can use the REST for IBM BPM to access process data
programmatically. Learn an approach to manage and recover process instances in a simple and
efficient way by walking though an example implementation.
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Complement business rule debugging in IBM Operational Decision

Manager with a logging framework
Neil D. Delima
Logging and tracing play an integral role in problem diagnosis and understanding the flow of many
applications. Common logging methods such as adding print statements placed through the code
are often used to trace the flow of an application or a component during development. However,
this method falls short on scalability and flexibility by making it difficult to dynamically and easily
change and control the amount and destination of logged information. A logging framework, such
as the logging APIs available in Java SE or Apache Log4J, provide feature rich, flexible logging
mechanisms that aid with debugging and tracing.
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Integrate your service into the cloud with the IBM Cloud
Orchestrator SDK
Fabio Cerri
The IBM Cloud Orchestrator Development Kit for Integration Toolkit helps you create content
packs for IBM Cloud Orchestrator in a quick, reliable, and repeatable way. This software
development kit (SDK) makes it easy to create integration APIs in IBM Business Process Manager
through an intuitive user interface or automatically by relying on declarative API definitions that are
compliant with common open standards. Use the IBM Cloud Orchestrator SDK to easily integrate
your service in the cloud.
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Automate environment provisioning with IBM SmartCloud

Orchestrator and IBM Business Process Manager
Manohar K. Chintala, Santanu Chanda, and Pratik Mondal
Learn how to provision virtual system patterns in IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator by using an
external IBM BPM environment, a Java client program, and IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator APIs.
Starting with Version 2.4, IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator was renamed IBM Cloud Orchestrator.
This tutorial includes examples based on the authors work with customers using IBM SmartCloud
Orchestrator V2.3. IBM Cloud Orchestrator V2.4 and later versions should work the same as IBM
SmartCloud Orchestrator V2.3. However, pay attention to any differences in APIs when you use
IBM Cloud Orchestrator.
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About the author

Amy Reinholds
Amy Reinholds is the managing editor for IBM developerWorks BPM. She
worked as an information developer for the IBM Business Process Manager
team from the product's inception through July 2014. You can contact her at
amy_reinholds@us.ibm.com.
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