Patent ID: 7814457

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: displaying a plurality of business processes in a first portion of a display, each process to be defined by configuration files and application files; simultaneously displaying a flow diagram of a selected process of the plurality of processes in a second portion of the display, the flow diagram to include icons indicating a plurality of flow destinations representing the configuration files and application files of the selected process and flow direction indicators indicating a direction of flow for the selected process, wherein the displaying of the flow diagram of the selected process comprises extracting flow information from at least one of the configuration files and application files, identifying a first file based upon the extracted flow information, and reviewing the identified first file to determine a first of the flow destinations and a corresponding second file of the configuration and application files; receiving from a user a selection of a subset of the configuration files and/or application files, the subset including a plurality of configuration files and/or application files; for each subset file, automatically extracting flow destination and flow labels to other configuration and/or application files included in the subset and to other configuration and/or application files outside the subset; receiving from the user a start point selection, the start point being one of the flow destinations included in the subset; creating a new business process from the subset and the start point selection; and, in response to creation of the new business process, automatically revising the flow diagram in the second portion of the display by replacing flow destination icons corresponding to the subset and associated flow direction indicators with a single new icon that represents all subset files, wherein the revised flow diagram includes said extracted flow destination and flow labels connecting the new icon to said other configuration and/or application files outside the subset.