Imixs Workflow ...the open source workflow technology for business applications

Workflow API

The Workflow Model

The Model interface defines a workflow model used by the WorkflowManger. Typical there is no need to interact with the Model Interface inside you application as the model is controlled by the WorkflowManger.

But in some cases is will be necessary to lookup a ProcessEntity or ActivityEntity from the mode.

To process a workitem you can simply call the process() method of the WorkflowManager interface. 

  Model model;
  //....
  // lookup a ProcessEntiy 
  model.getProcessEntity(100);
  //...
  // receive the processEntityList containing all Process Entities
  Collection<ItemCollection> col1=model.getProcessEntityList();
  // receive a collection of all Activities for a Process Entity
  Collection<ItemCollection> col2=model.getActivityEntityList(processid)

For more informations of how a Model Implementation works see the Imixs JEE Components which provide a Workflow Model Component used by the Imixs JEE Workflow Manger.