Stardust Online Documentation

The Stardust Online documentation suite for Release 1.0.1 contains a JavaDoc collection of class descriptions, a set of user guides in HTML format as well as the release notes.

Release Notes

The Release Notes provide the release notes.

Installation

The Installation guide provides general information about the server installation and database configurations.

Getting Started

The chapter How to read the Stardust Online Documentation gives a brief introduction to the Stardust Documentation.

Upgrading to Later Versions

Please refer to chapter Upgrading to Later Versions for detailed information on required changes on existing models when upgrading to a later version of Stardust.

Concepts

The Concepts section helps you understand the key concepts of Stardust.

Business Process Modeler Handbooks

The Business Process Modeler Handbooks contain a set of user guide for business analysts for modeling and installation.

Developer Handbooks

The Developer Handbooks cover the following topics:

• Tutorials
  Tutorials and use cases for modeling and executing processes with Stardust.
• Modeling Guide
  Introduction of modeling basics and integration issues.
• Operation Guide
  Provides descriptions of administration facilities.
• Programming Guide
  Describes the basic concepts of the Stardust API and its relationship to the general process modeling and runtime concepts.
• Deployment Guide
  The Deployment Guide provides the information to deploy and configure a Stardust runtime environment.
• Document Service Integration Guide
  The Document Service Integration provides the usage of the functionality for content repositories of document management systems.
• Business Analysis and Reporting Component
  Provides information on using the reporting component to support design and retrieval of arbitrary reports on business process data and data of business objects.
• Simulation Feature
  The Simulation Feature allows a process model to be tested for performance characteristics without actually deploying the process.
• Spring Integration Guide
  The Spring Integration Guide helps you to get started with using Stardust in a Spring environment.
• Rapid Application Development
  The Rapid Application Development offers the possibility to get started quickly in application development without requiring a client-dependent development environment.
• Stardust Schema
  Provides an overview on the Stardust schema.

End User Handbooks

The End User Handbooks contain a set of user guides for end users, like the description of the Stardust Web Portal.

Administrator Handbooks

The Administrator Handbooks provide an overview over installation and operations of Stardust.

Examples

The Examples section provides examples for Web services API, authentication and synchronization (security).

Reference

The Stardust Reference part contains the Stardust API description and the Stardust extension points references.

Troubleshooting

Please refer to the Troubleshooting chapter for known or restricted issues and provided workarounds.

Glossary

The Glossary provides an alphabetical list of terms and their definitions.

Legal

Please refer to the Legal chapter for legal issues.