Java Step Processor Samples Overview

The Java Step Processor and Launch Step Processor use the UI Toolkit APIs to initialize and display user interface components and controls; however, these samples make extensive use of the eProcess APIs. You cannot modify or extend these Step Processor or Launch Step Processor samples without first understanding how to access workflow sessions, objects, elements, queues, rosters, and logs using the eProcess APIs.

The samples are meant to illustrate how to extend the existing Step Processor and Launch Step Processor applets and applications using the reusable interface components. The samples are not meant to be used as a framework for developing universally adaptable custom applications to launch workflows or process workflow steps.

The Java processor toolkit allows you to use the supplied UI (User Interface) Toolkit components in one of two ways: (1) use a text-based editor to program directly using the UI Toolkit components, or (2) use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for drag-and-drop RAD (Rapid Application Development). Either development option requires that you understand AWT and Swing. The runtime versions of the UI Toolkit classes are included in the pw.jar file; however, if you are using an IDE for RAD configure your IDE to use the vwpanel.jar file. (The vwpanel.jar contains the necessary classes and images for RAD programming.)

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