Integrate business processes
Overview
Integrating business processes into the portal involves the development of multiple components that are incorporated into a unified business process application.
When testing these components, J2EE security must be enabled on the test portal server to correctly display the user's personal tasks.
- Business process scenario: Travel request and approval
This topic describes a simple scenario to introduce the concepts for integrating business processes into the portal.
- Business process concepts
WebSphere Portal exploits the process engine of Business Process Choreographer to integrate the existing business processes and applications into the portal. Portals are the ideal interface for the human component of business processes. The portal displays visual prompts to notify users when they are assigned a new task. These prompts link users to the My Tasks portlet, where they can view, claim, and launch tasks on a new portal page. Each task is part of the larger business process that can include any combination of human activities with automated services, creating a complete end-to-end workflow solution.
- Post-installation steps for business processes
This topic describes how the portal and Business Process Choreographer are configured by the installation program if all defaults are accepted. After installation, we can make changes to this configuration according to the requirements of the application and network.
- Developing business process applications
The topics in this section describe how to create the components of a business process application.
- Configuring the portal for business processes
The topics in this section describe changes make to the portal to support the custom business processes.
- Configuring the business process container for the portal
The topics in this section describe how to manually configure the business process container when make a change to the default configuration, or when use a remote business process container.
- Deploying the business process application
To deploy all of the components of a business process application into a production portal environment.
Parent topic:
Integrating the business