com.sssw.wf.activity
Class EboProcessNode

com.sssw.wf.activity.EboProcessNode

All Implemented Interfaces:

EbiProcessNode

public abstract class EboProcessNode

implements EbiProcessNode

The base implementation class representing an activity in a workflow process. This class can be extended to provide specialized processing in the 'notifyArrive', and 'notifyDepart' methods.

See Also:

com.sssw.wf.api.EbiProcessNode

Constructor Summary

EboProcessNode()

Method Summary

void	notifyArrive(EbiContext context) This method is called when a workitem arrives.
void	notifyDepart(EbiContext context) This method is called when a workitem departs.

Methods implemented from interface com.sssw.wf.activity.EbiProcessNode

canForward, forward, getOutLinks, getProcess

Constructor Detail

EboProcessNode

public EboProcessNode()

Method Detail

notifyArrive

public void notifyArrive(EbiContext context)
                  throws EboActivityException

This method is called when a workitem arrives. It allows the process node to perform 'pre-processing' such as updating an audit, modifying workitem data or preparing 'system' properties prior to dispatching to the queue.

Specified by:

notifyArrive in interface EbiProcessNode

Parameters:

context - EbiContext object associated with the flow

Throws:

EboActivityException - Enables locale-specific messages to be returned.

notifyDepart

public void notifyDepart(EbiContext context)
                  throws EboActivityException

This method is called when a workitem departs. It allows the process node to perform 'post-processing' such as updating an audit, or notification.

Specified by:

notifyDepart in interface EbiProcessNode

Parameters:

context - - EbiContext object associated with the flow

Throws:

EboActivityException - Enables locale-specific messages to be returned.