org.imixs.workflow
Class WorkflowKernel

java.lang.Object
  org.imixs.workflow.WorkflowKernel

public class WorkflowKernel
extends Object

The Workflowkernel is the core component of this Framework to control the processing of a workitem. A Workflowmanager loads an instance of a Workflowkernel and hand over a Model and register Plugins for processing one or many workitems.

Version:

1.1

Author:

Ralph Soika

See Also:

WorkflowManager

Field Summary

static int	LOG_LEVEL_FINE
static int	LOG_LEVEL_SEVERE Log-Levels
static int	LOG_LEVEL_WARNING

Constructor Summary

WorkflowKernel(WorkflowContext actx)
Constructor initialize the contextObject and plugin vectors

Method Summary

static String	generateUniqueID() This method creates a unique key which can be used as a primary key.
void	process(ItemCollection document) Processes a workitem.
void	registerPlugin(String aClassName)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

LOG_LEVEL_SEVERE

public static final int LOG_LEVEL_SEVERE

Log-Levels

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Constant Field Values

LOG_LEVEL_WARNING

public static final int LOG_LEVEL_WARNING

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Constant Field Values

LOG_LEVEL_FINE

public static final int LOG_LEVEL_FINE

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

WorkflowKernel

public WorkflowKernel(WorkflowContext actx)

Constructor initialize the contextObject and plugin vectors

Method Detail

registerPlugin

public void registerPlugin(String aClassName)

process

public void process(ItemCollection document)
             throws ProcessingErrorException

Processes a workitem. The Workitem have at least provide the properties "$processid" and "$activityid"

Parameters:

document -

Throws:

ProcessingErrorException

generateUniqueID

public static String generateUniqueID()

This method creates a unique key which can be used as a primary key. The method is used by the 'checkWorkItemID()' method and the checkUniqueID() method.

The uniqueid consits of two parts containing a random unique char sequence

Returns: