Integration developer roles

Assign work appropriately for your integration development team. Plan how to delegate work among the process designers, the application developers, and administrators.

Consider the following factors when defining the roles and responsibilities of your process integration development team:

• If your team includes more than one application developer, consider how to divide the work of designing the business process applications and developing the portlets required by each application that is installed and deployed on the portal.

• If your team includes more than one portal or process server administrator, consider who will maintain the integrated configuration, including the following responsibilities:

  • Manage the pages of the portal where the process application and associated portlets are deployed,

  • Maintaining the wiring of the portlets that need to work together in the application,

  • Controlling user access to the pages and portlets required by portal-based business process applications, and

  • Other portal administration tasks.

• If the portlets are not directly generated from within WebSphere Integration Developer, process designers must ensure that the following information and code artifacts are provided to the portlet developer:

  Activity Specification

  Defines the purpose of the human task, how the input and output messages correlate, the valid values for single entries in an input or output message, and the expected results for the output message. The activity specification also contains the correct syntax of the input and output messages.

  The activity specification is required by the portlet developer responsible for developing the Task Processing portlet.

  Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and XML Schema Definition (XSD)

  Files generated by WebSphere Integration Developer that define the interfaces of each human task and the schemas of the data input and output messages required by the Task Processing portlet at runtime. During development of the business process, the WSDL and XSD files must be made available to the portlet developer to include in the Task Processing portlet application. These files must be exported and placed as part of a JAR file in the /WEB-INF/lib of the corresponding Task Processing portlet application.

• If you intend to display individual human tasks on task pages other than the default task page, the process designer needs to communicate to the portal administrator the unique name used in the client UI settings of those human tasks. The portal administrator then creates the corresponding task pages definitions using the unique names specific.

Parent topic:

Prepare to develop process applications

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