Activities performed within the context of a business process may have to execute application logic. This application logic is defined by a concept called application. For more details on applications and their types please refer to the chapter Applications of the Workflow Basics concepts.
This section will explain how to work with applications in the Process Workbench. In the sections System Integration and Data Integration more details on working with concrete applications can be found.
An application is visualized by an icon showing a desktop window. This icon may be overlaid by symbols representing a concrete application type.
To create an application you can either:
Figure: Applications
Applications provide the following properties:
Besides name, id and description, the general properties of an application include a check box Visibility Public. If you select this check box, you can specify that applications will be imported by reference when referenced from another model. For more information, please refer to Multi Package Modeling Preferences section of chapter Setting Process Manager Preferences. By default, this check box is selected.
Figure: General Properties
For details on the generic properties, please refer to section General Properties of chapter Viewing and Editing Properties of Models and Model Elements.
Edit the application type specific properties. For a detailed description of the configuration of the Stardust application types, see the sections System Integration and Data Integration.
Figure: Plain Java Application Properties Dialog
An application provides the following controlling properties:
Note that these properties are deprecated and will be removed in later releases.
Figure: Controlling Properties of an Application
In this section you can specify simulation configurations, as described detailed in the chapter Simulation Configurations of the Stardust Simulation Guide.)
In this section you can set the following Process Effort properties:
Figure: Effort Planning Properties of an Application
Please refer to the chapter Project Effort Calculation for detailed information on this functionality.
To browse for a class or interface in an application properties dialog:
Figure: Browse for an Application Class.
To browse for a method:
Figure: Browse for a Method.
To delete an application, use the option Delete in the application's pop-up menu in a diagram. In the Outline view, use the corresponding option Delete.
To remove an application symbol from the diagram, choose the option Delete Symbol in the application's pop-up menu. After this operation the application will still be part of the model.
Once the file connection is established, you can reference the application in the referencing model.
To reference the application, drag and drop the application from Outline view > External Model Information > File Connection on the diagram canvas.
Figure: Drag and Drop Referred Application
Open the Property page of the application and select Application. The list of available application gets displayed.
Figure: Referred Application - Property Page
If you select the Display Imported Model Elements as Groups check box, the references of the application get displayed.
Figure: Referred Application - Display Imported Model Elements as Groups