Oracle Workflow Developer’s Guide

Welcome to the Oracle Workflow Developer’s Guide.

This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of the following:

• The principles and customary practices of your business area.
• Oracle Workflow

If you have never used Oracle Workflow, Oracle suggests you attend one or more of the Oracle Workflow training classes available through Oracle University.

See Other Information Sources for more information about Oracle Applications product information.

The Oracle Workflow Developer’s Guide also assumes you have a basic understanding of operating system concepts and familiarity with Oracle Database, PL/SQL, and Oracle Application Server technology. If you have not yet been introduced to any of these systems, Oracle suggests you attend one or more of the training classes available
through Oracle University.

How To Use This Guide

This guide contains the information you need to understand and develop with Oracle Workflow.

• Chapter 1 provides an overview of Oracle Workflow.
• Chapter 2 describes how to begin defining a workflow process.
• Chapter 3 describes how to define the components necessary to build a workflow process.
• Chapter 4 describes how to draw and define a workflow process diagram.
• Chapter 5 describes the standard activities provided with Oracle Workflow.
• Chapter 6 describes the standard APIs for the PL/SQL and Java functions that can be called by Oracle Workflow.
• Chapter 7 describes how to launch a workflow process for testing purposes.
• Chapter 8 describes how to manage business events.
• Chapter 9 describes the standard events provided with Oracle Workflow.
• Chapter 10 describes the demonstration workflow processes included with Oracle Workflow.
• Chapter 11 describes error handling for workflow processes and event subscription processing.
• Appendix A describes the navigation paths to Oracle Workflow developer web pages in the seeded Oracle Workflow responsibilities for Oracle Applications.
• Appendix B describes the Oracle Workflow Builder menus and toolbar.
• Appendix C lists the predefined workflow processes that are included with the Oracle Applications–embedded version of Oracle Workflow, the Oracle Applications features that leverage the Business Event System, and the Oracle technology stack features that leverage Oracle Workflow. This appendix also includes the Oracle Workflow support policy.

At the end of this guide, we include a glossary of Oracle Workflow terms.

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