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The OpenText Process Suite ABC Glossary - Java part 1

Written by Sascha Cutura | 23 December 2015

JAVA

The Open Text Process Suite platform is primarily built using the Java programming language, this means that there is a tight integration with the Java platform. When developing applications with the OTPS platform, you can import or add your Java source code, refer to or make use of any available Java methods as part of your application. Here, we will explore how to apply any Java code with the OTPS platform

Java SE Development Kit and Java RE

When running web service operations by the OTPS platform these are executed by means of one or more service containers that are grouped into a service group. Each service container is a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) that executes the web services. Web service operations are collected or grouped into a web service interface. At the level of the service group, you associate any number of specific web service interfaces to be handled by the included service container(s). When running the web service, the actual implementation of the web service operation is executed by the application connector that is contained as part of the service container definition. Refer to the topic Application Connector for more details on the concept of application connector.

When you wish to develop applications with the OTPS platform, you need to install the Java SE Developer Kit as a prerequisite on the Development server. While deploying the application on a Test, Acceptance and Production server only the Java SE Runtime Environment is required. The OTPS platform uses DTAP as phased approach for software development, testing and deployment. In the OTPS technical community you can find more information on the supported environment for the OTPS platform: https://wiki.cordys.com/display/PI/Process+Platform+Environment+Support

WS-AppServer application connector

One of the core or technology application connectors included with the OTPS platform is the WS-AppServer connector. This application connector provides connectivity and data management capabilities while working with relational databases and Java classes. Through WS-AppServer, you can connect, generate and run web service operations performing basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations against a relational database such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, etc. Furthermore the WS‑AppServer connector can be used to run methods from Java classes and/or generate and run web service operations based on static methods contained in these Java classes.

When defining a service container based on the WS-AppServer application connector, you can configure to which database the service container is connecting. These database configuration details are stored as separate items (data source definitions) in the LDAP based CARS registry, and can thus be re-used with different WS‑AppServer connector based service containers if necessary. Note when defining a service group and service container to only run the methods from Java classes or web service operations implemented through Java classes that are not related to any relational database, you need not configure the database.

List of abbreviations 

Abbreviation Description
 ANSI  American National Standards Institute
 BAM  Business Activity Monitoring
 BER  Business Event Response
 BPML  Business Process Modeling Language
 BPMN   Business Process Modeling Notation
 BPMS   Business Process Management Suite (or System)
 CAF  Composite Application Framework file extension
 CAL   Composite Application Logging (framework)
 CAP  Cordys / Composite Application Package (file extension)
 CARS  Cordys Admin Repository Server
 CMC   Cordys Management Console
 CRUD  Create, Read, Update and Delete, data manipulation operations with a    relational database
 CWS  Collaborative Work Space
 DTAP   Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production
 ESB   Enterprise Service Bus
 HW   HardWare
 IDE   Integrated Development Environment
 IP   Internet Protocol
 JAR  Java ARchive file extension
 JVM   Java Virtual Machine
 KPI   Key Performance Indicator
 LDAP   Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
 OMG   Object Management Group
 OTPS   OpenText Process Suite
 PIM   Process Instance Manager
 PMO   Process Monitoring Object
 RDBMS   Relational DataBase Management System
 SCM   Software Configuration Management
 SCXML   State Chart XML
 SOA   Services Oriented Architecture
 SOAP   Simple Object Access Protocol
 SQL  Structured Query Language
 SSU   State Sync-Up
 SVN   SubVersioN
 SW   SoftWare
 W3C  World Wide Web Consortium
 WfMC   Workflow Management Coalition
 WSDL   Web Service Definition Language
 WSI  Web Service Interface
 WSO  Web Service Operation
 XML   eXtensible Mark-up Language
 XPDL   XML Process Definition Language

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