Getting started

[Douglas]

I've just started with CM and am having some conceptual issues
(forgive me jump around too much). I need to setup a WorkFlow that is
started by an external app that creates the document. As I understood
it I would use the Systems Administrator Client to do this writing a
Business Application. I thought I would use the Java API to work with
our existing code in creating the document and starting the process but
I've read that Business Applications must be written in C. All the
documentation I've read treat API development separately from
Processes in the Systems Administrator Client. Is this the way it is,
do I have to write everything myself if I want to use the API's?

Also, is WebSphere Studio application Developer Integration Edition the
proper development environment?

Douglas

[Joe Morrow]

You should be able to start the process from your business application
using the java API from your line of business application.

If you want the workflow engine to start a program, when a selected
event occurs, then the program started by workflow must (should?) be
written in C, and be available on the same box that runs the workflow.
That said, I would guess any language that adhered to the C invocation
rules would work too.

We use WSAD, not the Integration Edition and that works fine.
Although it did take us a while to get the entire environment exactly
right.