Write workflow in Java

In TeamSite 6.7.1 we can now code URL External Tasks in java. But that's just for external tasks. In the middle of a workflow, I need to display a form to the task owner that asks a few questions and get the user's answer, then transition the task base on the answers collected from the form. In this case, is writing CGI task in Perl still my only choice?

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kaalraa

In TeamSite 6.7.1 we can now code URL External Tasks in java. But that's just for external tasks. In the middle of a workflow, I need to display a form to the task owner that asks a few questions and get the user's answer, then transition the task base on the answers collected from the form. In this case, is writing CGI task in Perl still my only choice?

You are on IWOV's choice list. Smiley Wink

Johnny

It might be called a CGI task - but all it is really is calling a URL... so you can specify a URL that is a servlet... /iw-cc/something/goes/here.

Of course I've never done this - just assuming Smiley Happy

ISCBorisB

is writing CGI task in Perl still my only choice?

You absolutely can write CGI tasks in Java. That was the case even before 6.7.
CSSDK provides serious support to obtain WF Execution Environment, perform transitions and so on.

ISCBorisB

It might be called a CGI task - but all it is really is calling a URL... so you can specify a URL that is a servlet... /iw-cc/something/goes/here.

Of course I've never done this - just assuming

CGI Task does not call a URL, not directly anyway. Here is an excerpt from WF Manual:

Use with cgitask
When used with the cgitask element, the command is the name of a CGI script to run
relative to iw-home/httpd/iw-bin/

That said, you can certainly code CGI Task in Java

Migrateduser

Thanks for all the responses. I was just hoping that URL task has become an "un-documented" feature for CGI task. It does not seem that way and that's fine.

Bill Klish

We use Java for the external tasks and cgitasks. We have used struts and spring mvc MVC frameworks to handle the presentation layer in the cgitask element windows. So everyone is correct, the CS SDK starting with TeamSite 6.1 provides access to almost everything inside of TeamSite and can be utilized from the standard MVC frameworks instead of using perl.

TeamSite 6.7.x added the URL external tasks so you don't have to write standalone java applications to run as external tasks as was the case before.