If not already done, download the Stardust features as described in the Installation Guide.
Apart from the Stardust installation, you only need a Tomcat installation to go through this tutorial. Refer to the Stardust Release Notes for details on the Tomcat version supported with the current release.
As a start some names of the product are described here. For an overview on the provided packages provided by Stardust, refer to the Installation Guide.
This is the general product name.
This name is used for the runtime component of Stardust.
Before your business process can be executed, you must model its elements (activities to be performed, variable definitions, applications and resources) as well as the relationships between these elements. For this purpose, your web server for example, Apache Tomcat should be up and running on the Stardust.
To log on to the Stardust Portal.
The start URL for the Support-Case Stardust Portal is:
http://hostname:port/Support-Case
and leads you to the Stardust Portal login screen, whereby
hostname is the
name of the host running your application server (in this case localhost)
andport is the HTTP
port of your application server (in this case 8080)So if the Tomcat settings are configured properly, the browser URL to enter is http://localhost:8080/Support-Case.
In our ACME example, we will use applications and data implemented in Java, which have to be integrated in the business model. We have prepared the applications and data classes so that you can proceed with this tutorial without having to implement the model-specific components yourself. To get the example resources, download the following ZIP file:
You find the resources in folder support-case.
In the following figure you see a screenshot of the complete ACME Workflow example model:
Figure: The Support Case Workflow Model
Log on with the default administrator's user ID and password: motu/motu (master of the universe). You can use Shift-F8 to rapid type these credentials:
Figure: Login Screen