Bundled Applications

There are some bundled applications provided with Application Development. These applications demonstrate how to use specific Business Process Management (BPM) functionality. You can use the bundled applications in your own custom client applications to provide a specific BPM-related function, for example, opening a work item from a URL or starting a business service from a URL.

The bundled applications are browser-based applications that consist entirely of static resources (such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML and JSON), which are served to the browser that hosts the application. Applications do not include servlets or client-side executables, such as applets or .NET libraries.

You can use the bundled applications in your own custom client applications. You can also clone and customize the bundled applications, depending on your requirements. However, you cannot edit the bundled applications directly in Application Development.

Authentication

Your calling user must be logged into their TIBCO Active Matrix BPM runtime to access an application that uses bundled applications. If the calling user is not logged in, the Application Development Login screen is displayed. A valid BPM username and password can be added as part of the extended URL for a bundled application. The authentication details do not need to be the same as those of the user who is opening a work item, or starting a business service. However, you must make sure that the credentials you provide are appropriate. For example, for the openworkitem application, a valid BPM user who can access and open a work item and for the startbizaction application, a valid BPM user who can access and start a business service.

See Using the openworkitem Application in Your Application and Using the startbizaction Application in Your Application.