Preface

Survey

In this section you get a general survey on what this book is about.

Audience

This tutorial gives a practical introduction into the concepts of Stardust . It explains the general concepts and the mode of operation of the product for Stardust beginners.

How this book is organized

The tutorial guides through the following use cases:

• The Support Case Example - a simple case study on how to model and then to automatize a simple "support case" process in a fictitious company called ACME. This introduces the Stardust Process Workbench - Developer Edition and the Stardust runtime environment.
• Scoped Participant Tutorials:
  • The Scoped Participant Example - is a simple use case created to explain how to develop a multi-scoped organizational structure and work with multi-scoped participants.
  • Use Case - Using Declarative Security for Scoped Participants in Report Viewing tutorial - a simple use case example on how declarative security affects report data visibility for users in different departments.
  • Use Case - Delegating to a User in Another Target Department - a simple use case example on how to delegate a user to a user in another target department.
• Using a Configuration Variable to Control a Process Flow - This tutorial guides you through a use case, where a configuration variable is set to control if an activity is executed or skipped during runtime.
• Performing Quality Assurance on interactive Activities - A tutorial to demonstrate how to perform quality assurance on interactive activities.
• Managing Unstructured Workflows
  • Spawning Sub-processes - tutorial to describe how spawning of a root process instance creates a sub-process and copies data associated with it.
  • Extracting Pages Tutorial - tutorial to demonstrate how to extract pages from a document attached to a process instance and create a new process instance containing the extracted pages
  • Aborting and Starting Processes - tutorial to help you understand how to abort existing process instance and start another process instance, to check linking between them, and to check whether data is copied from source process instance to target process instance.
  • Aborting and Joining Processes - tutorial to help you understand how to abort existing process instance and join to another active process instance and to check linking between them.
• Working with Multiple Models in One Audit Trail - This tutorial demonstrates how to work with multiple models in one audit trail database.
• Creating a Worklist Filter - This tutorial helps you to create and apply worklist filter for portal configuration.
• Using JMS Application and JMS Trigger - This tutorial helps you to work with JMS application and JMS trigger.

Related Documents

• The Operation Guide covers all operational aspects of the Stardust runtime, including advanced installation issues like deploying Stardust to an application server.
• The Modeling Guide explains the basic concepts behind the Stardust Process Engine and describes the Stardust Process Workbench.

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