Programming Workflow Applications With Domino

by Giblin; Daniel T.

• ISBN13: 9781929629060
• ISBN10: 1929629060
• Edition: CD
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-01-04
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Harness the power of groupware to reshape business processes and customer interactions. This book will permit you to implement Web-based workflow applications using the industry-standard groupware environment, Domino R5. Build Web applications that will p Implement dynamic Internet exchange for e-commerce and e-workflow, using Domino R5. Learn how to develop workflow Web applications capable of handling dynamic content, such as e-mail, calendaring, and document sharing. Includes a complete, reusable, and customizable Workflow application with annotated source code utilizing UML, XML, and Java.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Chapter Contents	p. 2
Workflow Diagrams	p. 3
Deployment Diagrams	p. 3
Activity Diagrams	p. 4
State Diagrams	p. 6
Class Diagrams	p. 9
Environments, Languages, and Code	p. 14
Summary	p. 15
References	p. 15
Workflow	p. 17
Workflow--What is it?	p. 19
Process	p. 19
Why Should I Model?	p. 21
How Do I Model a Process?	p. 22
UML Models	p. 26
Evaluating the Model	p. 30
Methodologies	p. 30
Actors, Roles, or Performers	p. 30
Routes, Paths, or Flow	p. 31
Actions, Events, or Triggers	p. 31
Exceptions and Guard Conditions	p. 31
Business Rules	p. 31
Communications	p. 32
Summary	p. 32
References	p. 33
Workflow Using Notes/Domino	p. 35
Notes Features	p. 36
Notes Security	p. 37
Notes Databases	p. 39
The Notes Object Store	p. 40
Views	p. 41
Documents	p. 41
Forms	p. 41
Subforms	p. 43
Fields	p. 43
Replication	p. 44
Programmability	p. 45
Agents	p. 45
Actions	p. 46
Events	p. 46
Messaging	p. 49
Calendaring and Scheduling	p. 50
Incorporating Other Data Sources	p. 50
The Document Library Template	p. 51
Summary	p. 56
References	p. 56
Notification	p. 57
Modeling the Notification Process	p. 58
The Activity Model	p. 59
The State Model	p. 60
Evaluating the Model	p. 61
Prototyping the Database	p. 63
Designing the Form	p. 63
Designing the Views	p. 65
Writing the Database Agents	p. 67
The Agent Structure	p. 67
The deleteEntries Agent	p. 69
The prepareEntriesForProcessing Agent	p. 91
The processEntries Agent	p. 110
Using the Notification Database	p. 117
Summary	p. 117
References	p. 118
Building a Workflow Management System	p. 119
An Example Workflow Model	p. 120
Designing the Framework	p. 121
Building the Framework Forms	p. 125
The State Form	p. 125
The Action Form	p. 127
The Role Form	p. 130
Additional Workflow Design Components	p. 132
Designing the Framework Views	p. 134
Viewing Workflow Definitions	p. 134
Designing the Workflow-Enabling Subform	p. 136
Creating the Web Agents	p. 139
The wfGetCurActionsList Agent	p. 139
The wfProcess Agent	p. 143
The wfProcessForm Agent	p. 147
Integrating the Notification Engine	p. 166
Constructing the Rule Engine	p. 175
Representing the Rules	p. 175
Parsing the XML Rules	p. 177
Applying the Workflow Logic Rules	p. 178
Implementing the Rule Engine Classes	p. 179
Summary	p. 222
References	p. 223
A Case Study: College Admissions Processing	p. 225
The Interview	p. 226
Case Assumptions	p. 228
Communications-Based Models	p. 228
Process Models	p. 230
An Activity Model	p. 233
The State Diagram	p. 235
Prototyping the Admissions Database	p. 237
Designing the Forms	p. 237
The Application Subforms	p. 241
Creating the Views, Navigator, and Home Page	p. 248
Registering an Applicant	p. 251
Summary	p. 266
References	p. 266
Implementing the Workflow Model	p. 267
First Steps	p. 268
Configuring the Workflow	p. 272
The State Documents	p. 273
Defining the Actions	p. 282
Specifying the Roles	p. 292
Agents	p. 295
The wfOverDueMonitor Agent	p. 296
A Test Drive	p. 300
Summary	p. 304
Workflow Management Systems	p. 305
Domino Workflow 2.0	p. 305
Percussion PowerFlow	p. 307
SWAP--Simple Workflow Access Protocol	p. 308
WARIA--Workflow and Reengineering International Association	p. 308
WfMC--Workflow Management Coalition	p. 308
References	p. 309
Index	p. 311
What's on the CD-ROM?	p. 324
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