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Introduction

The loan application that you create will be developed on the workbench using a top-down approach.

In order to receive a loan request through a web interface, it is necessary to create several artifacts to process the application. You need data objects that store information about the loan request, like the loan amount and name of the customer. To process the information and send a reply to the customer about the status of the request, you need to create a business process. To check the credit rating of the applicant and decide if you will approve or reject the request, you need to implement a business rule. And finally to process the request to a bank employee that executes the loan request, you need to create human tasks.
Banking customer requesting a loan online from a bank
All of those artifacts are then "packed" as components and wired together using interfaces. The last step before you can use the application is to deploy it on a server.

To create your application, you will use the following seven editors:

Name Icon Purpose
assembly editor Assembly icon Allows top-down development by creating and connecting components to form the integrated loan application.
business process editor Business process icon Helps you create the business logic for evaluating the loan application based on the applicant's credit rating and the business rules of the bank.
visual snippets editor Visual snippets icon Helps you evaluate credit check conditions in the business process visually, and without writing any Java code.
interface editor Interface icon Helps you create interfaces that specify the means of accessing and returning output of components to other components in the assembly diagram.
business rules editor Business rules icon Help you create the rules that define the bank's loan policies, such as when an application is approved or rejected.
rule group editor Rule group icon Helps you select a business rule to execute based on the date or other criteria.
business object editor Business object icon Creates containers for business objects to represent the entities in the scenario. These include the customer or applicant, loan application, contact information for the applicant, and the data passed to bank administrators.
The following tasks will guide you through the steps and explain how to create the loan application.

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