The Process Designer interface has changed significantly. It now
provides the ability to:
Create and modify collaboration templates locally (without being connected
to the server).
Connect to the server.
Create and open collaboration templates directly (without using IBM
CrossWorlds System Manager).
Create, edit, and save message text as part of the collaboration
template. Message content is now saved in the repository. During
template compilation, Process Designer generates a message text file that is
used only at runtime.
Save all collaboration template information (including message content) as
a single text file on the client machine.
Compile all or a specified subset of collaboration templates.
Set display preferences, such as modifying activity diagram colors,
enabling and disabling automatic display of a start node in a blank new
diagram, and enabling and disabling the display of connection points on nodes
in an activity diagram.
Convert collaboration templates to the new format; you can specify
conversion either on an individual template, a specified subset of templates,
or all templates.
Menus have been added and changed to accommodate the above changes.
The collaboration runtime environment now provides the ability for a
collaboration:
When the destination connector has been configured for parallel processing
and a service call fails, to determine that the request was queued up in the
agent master, but never got dispatched to the application; therefore, the
request may be resent. For more information, see
AppRequestNotYetSent in getSubType().
The collaboration runtime environment prevents deletion of a collaboration
template if an existing collaboration object has been built from it.
For more information, see "Deleting a collaboration template".
The Test Connector has been enhanced. To prevent the Java process
on your machine from running out of memory when you run the Test Connector
with a large business object, causing the connector to crash, the
connector's batch file includes a command that increases the memory to
128 Mb. You can further increase the memory allocation.
In addition, this document has been modified in the following ways:
Includes the following subtypes of ServiceCallException:
Includes a more detailed explanation of the different syntax forms for
raiseException().
Because Process Designer has been significantly enhanced, the tutorial
chapter that appeared in the previous version of this manual is obsolete and
has been removed. A new tutorial may appear in a subsequent update of
this manual. Check the IBM CrossWorlds Documentation Update Report for
revisions to this guide. Alternatively, if you are reading this
document online, right-click on its title on the title page for direct access
to the most up-to-date version.
Note:
The tutorial for the new version of Process Designer has been added to the
document. For more information, see "New in release 4.0.1".
The chapter, "Distributing a Collaboration Template", has been
removed from this manual. For information on moving collaboration
templates between servers, see the System Implementation
Guide.
The process for converting a collaboration template to the new format is
described in "Converting templates".