Pattern 25 (Environment to Workflow - Push)

FLASH animation of Data Interaction - Environment to Workflow - Push-Oriented pattern

Description

The ability of services or resources in the operating environment to pass global data to a process.

Example

All mining permits data currently available is passed to the Develop Mining Leases process.

Motivation

The rationale for this pattern is to provide applications independent of the process environment with the ability to create or update global data elements in a process.

Overview

There are three ways in which this objective might be achieved, all of which require support from the process environment:

Context

There are no specific context conditions associated with this pattern.

Implementation

Staffware provides support for the first of the options described above to set workflow configuration data. It also supports the second of these options in a limited sense through the swutil option which allows workflow tables and lists to be populated from external data files in predefined formats. WebSphere MQ provides support for the third alternative and allows persistent lists and other runtime global data elements to be updated via API calls.

Issues

None observed.

Solutions

N/A.

Evaluation Criteria

An offering achieves full support if it has a construct that satisfies the description of the pattern.

Product Evaluation

To achieve a + rating (direct support) or a +/- rating (partial support) the product should satisfy the corresponding evaluation criterion of the pattern. Otherwise a - rating (no support) is assigned.

Summary of Evaluation