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Introduction

This tutorial steps you through the creation of a simple TIBCO BusinessWorks project. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce you to the BusinessWorks project lifecycle. The phases of the project lifecycle are similar to standard project phases:

1.	Design — determining the requirements of the system, developing a prototype solution to your business needs.

2.	Testing — running the system to determine that it works properly and meets the project’s requirements.

The project in this tutorial is fairly simple so that you can focus on how to use BusinessWorks within each phase of the project lifecycle. Once you complete the tutorial, you should be more comfortable applying the methodology to your own projects.

Before starting this tutorial, you should become familiar with TIBCO BusinessWorks terminology and basic concepts. It is not necessary to learn all aspects of BusinessWorks, but you should at least read Chapter 1 of TIBCO BusinessWorks Concepts. That chapter introduces much of the terminology that will be used in this tutorial. TIBCO Designer Main Window is a summary of key concepts you should be familiar with.

Once a project has been developed and tested, you can deploy it using TIBCO Administrator. The TIBCO Administrator User’s Guide describes deployment and includes a tutorial that uses the project created in this manual.

Overview of Example Process

The project you will create watches a directory for a specific file. When the file changes, a new file is created that contains the contents of the original file plus the time the change was made to the original file. The new file is named after the change that occurred (create.txt, modify.txt, or remove.txt). If you modify the file multiple times, the new file overwrites the existing modify.txt.

With this simple project, you will perform many of the same tasks that are required for larger, more complex projects. This tutorial is not intended to illustrate every aspect of TIBCO BusinessWorks, so only a small subset of the available activities will be used.

The tutorial steps you through the following tasks:

•	Starting TIBCO Designer and Saving Your Project

•	Creating the FileTest Process

•	Testing the FileTest Process

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