Step 4: Add Activities

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Chapter 6 Phase 4: Business Process Design : Step 4: Add Activities

Step 4: Add Activities

Activities are the individual units of work within a process definition. Activities are generally operations that interface to external systems, but activities can also perform internal processing.

When you select a process definition, activities become available on the various TIBCO Designer palettes. Each palette has a set of activities that can be performed for that palette. For example, the ActiveEnterprise Adapter palette has activities that can publish messages to a specified adapter or invoke an operation by way of an adapter. The JMS palette includes activities such as JMS Queue Sender and JMS Queue Receiver.

A general-purpose Java Code activity allows you to write and execute standard Java code to perform custom processing within your process definition.

To add an activity to the process definition in TIBCO Designer, follow these steps:

1.

Select the appropriate palette. If the palette is not visible, make sure you have selected the appropriate parent resource and make sure the palette has not been closed.

2.

Drag the activity into the design panel.

3.

Select the activity and specify configuration information about it, for example, the originator and address for a Send Mail activity.

Figure 22 Adding activities