Hi all,
Has anybody ever tried instantiating a eInsight business process involving user activities by clicking a link on a web application? All the tutorials I have seen so far are all based on input files. Could anybody please refer me to some sample where a eInsight process is started by clicking a link or rather interactively.
Thanks & Regards,
Sujoy
An eInsight Business Process is instantated when a message for its initial Receive Activity becomes available for delivery. If you contrive to deliver a message to eInsight's BP from a Web Applicatin you will achieve the result you seek. The receive activity can be associated with a File eWay, a JMS Client end-point or any numer of other end points/adapters/connectors capable of receiving a message. You could, for example, use the JMS API Kit in a JSP in your web application to send a message to a JMS Receive activity that starts the BP. That presupposes that your web application is external to the Java CAPS solution. You could also build your web application using the eVision product, which is specifically designed to allow you to build Java CAPS-based web applications/composite applications. Have a look at eVision to see if you can use that to achieve what you need to achieve.
Thanks for clearing some of my doubt. As far as the recieve activity of the business process goes, in this case which is the external system to be used i.e. is it something like HTTP or HTTP Server? I guess the message to create a new business process instance will be sent from another application and once done, then the user will have to log in to the WLM manager to carry on with the process?
Thanks & Regards,
Sujoy.