Enable business processes for the portal
Use WebSphere Integration Developer to enable business processes for the portal environment. Map individual human tasks to special task pages in WebSphere Portal. If your process integration deployment uses a cross-cell setup, export the process WSDL and XSD files for use by other process-aware portlets and export the project EAR file to the staging server. Before you start this task, have the product documentation for WebSphere Process Server and other IBM Business Process Management products available.
WebSphere Process Server provides the runtime environment for processes that are modeled using the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL), a Web services standard for business process composition. WebSphere Portal supports only BPEL-based business processes. To model and develop business processes that will run in WebSphere Portal environments, use the process editor provided by WebSphere Integration Developer and BPEL. For complete information about modeling and developing business processes with WebSphere Integration Developer and BPEL, refer to the documentation for these tools.
- Mapping tasks to task pages
WebSphere Portal uses the task page concept to render the user interfaces for human tasks. By default, all human tasks are rendered on the predefined task page. However, you can map individual human tasks to dedicated task pages by adjusting the client UI settings of the corresponding human task in WebSphere Integration Developer.
- Export process files required in a cross-cell setup
If you have deployed business process integration using a cross-cell setup, export WSDL and XSD files required by custom-coded task processing portlets or by the portal-provided generic Task Processing and Manage Processes portlets. Then you can export the project EAR file to the staging server.
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