Creating user-defined JSP files

Why and when to perform this task

When you model a process in WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, you can define business-process specific JavaServer Pages files (or user-defined JSP files) for the process and for staff activities. The Web client uses these JSP files to display input and output messages for the process and for the activities for which user-defined JSP files have been defined. For example, if a message has non-primitive parts, it is recommended that you use user-defined JSP files to enhance the usability of the message for the user.

You can also use user-defined JSP files to extend the Web client, for example, these files can check user input for correctness before it is sent to the business process container. If you have not defined any user-defined JSP files, the Web client generates a default rendering to display message data.

A message-mapping JSP file is required for each user-defined JSP file that receives user input data (either a JSP file that displays a process input message or an activity output message). The message-mapping JSP file receives the user data, validates the input data, wraps it in an appropriate message object, and then forwards the message to the business process container.

User-defined JSP files are not self-contained Web pages. To include user-defined JSP files in the Web client, you must specify them when you model a business process in WebSphere Studio.

Steps for this task

  1. (Optional)   Create JSP files for displaying messages
  2. (Optional)   Create JSP files for processing user input
  3. Integrate user-defined JSP files in a V5.0-style process model

Related concepts
Message-mapping JSP files



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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT    WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, Version 5.0.2
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