•  Preface
  • About this documentation
  • User types
  • Information on documentation
  • Conventions used in this manual
  • Product support contact information
•  OpenEdge Business Process Server overview
  • Business Process Server components
  • How Business Process Server works
  • Business Process Server user types
•  Introducing BPM Events
  • BPM Events principles
  • BPM Events rules
•  BPM Events tutorial
  • Using rules to control Business Process Server processes
  • Using rules to correlate business process events
  • Using rules to monitor and report on business processes
  • Using rules to populate infopads
  • Using rules to modify monitoring reports
  •  Using rules to monitor an application
    • Defining a report
    • Events generated by the application
    • More about the value field
    • Understanding event-maps
    • Building the report
  • Using rules to correlate multiple events
  • Using rules to generate alarms
  • Using rules to synchronize Business Process Server processes
•  Understanding BPM Events
  •  The event model
    • Attributes
    • Event sources
  •  The XML event
    • The XML schema definition
    • Accessing XML body content
    • Accessing message properties
  •  The BP Server event protocol
    • Type and value of the event
    • Date of the event
    • Event ID
    • Context of BP Server events
    • Default attribute values
•  The rule language
  •  Rule structure
    • Syntactical conventions and limitations
    •  Event variables and expressions
      • Event attributes
      • Checking the presence of an event attribute
      • Examples of event variables and expressions
    •  Common variables, constants, and their scope
      • Constant values vs. variables
      • Scope of a value or of a variable
      • Infopad variables
      • Recovery issues for global variables and values
    • Rule condition as a logical expression
    • Priority and parentheses
    •  Relational expressions and operands
      • Relational expression
      • Arithmetic expression
      • Type conversions
      • String expression
    • Comments in rule language
  •  Rule modules and rule groups
    •  Rule modules of an application
      • Rule module and name scope
    • Rule groups
    • Current rule base
  •  Adding and removing rules dynamically
    • Dynamic loading and unloading of rule modules
    • Dynamically enabling and disabling rules
  •  Operational semantics of rules
    •  Event correlation
      • The triggering event and the correlating event
    •  Event filtering
      • Event filter syntax
    • General semantics of rule loading and rule execution
  •  Time operations and expressions
    •  Date expressions
      • Date values in rule language
      • Date unit in rule language
      • General date expressions in rule language
    • Extracting elements of a date
    •  Date conversion functions
      • Converting a date using a long-coded Java date in a rule
      • Converting a date to long in a rule
    • Time expressions
    • Date functions
    • Business time
  •  Controlling rule execution
    • Avoiding unnecessary or unwanted rule executions
    • Canceling multiple evaluations of a rule
    • Disabling events as rule triggers
  •  Predefined rule actions
    •  println(): Printing values to a file
      • Printing values in the bpmevents.output file
      • Printing values in a file
      • Recovery considerations
    • generate(): Generating internal events
    • postDB(): Posting an event into the database event queue
    • postJMS(): Posting an event into a JMS queue
    • sendMail(): Sending e-mail automatically
    • schedule(): Scheduling a future event
    • Using the event scheduler
    • unschedule(): Removing a scheduled event from the scheduler
    •  Discarding infopads and events
      • discard(): removing infopads
      • discard(): removing individual events
      • discardIndexEntry(): removing all events related to the same process
      • discardAllIndexEntry(): removing all events related to the same process and subprocesses
    •  Enabling and disabling rules
      • enableRule(<application>, <module>, <rulename>)
      • disableRule(<application>, <module>, <rulename>)
  •  Controlling the actions of a rule
    • Syntactic structure of rule actions
    • Functional action statements
    • Declaration action statements
    •  Assignment action statements
      • Infopad variables
    • Conditional action statements
    • Compound action statements
    • Iterative action statements
  • Defining and using global functions
•  Persistent structures
  •  Infopads
    • Defining Infopads, cells, and slots
    •  Creating infopads
      • Defining infopads
      • Initial values of infopad cells
      • Accessing infopads across modules
      • Associating labels with infopads
      • Attaching alarm conditions to cells
      • Unsetting alarm conditions
      • Discarding infopads from memory
    •  Using infopads
      • Updating slots in a cell
      • Using operators and functions to perform actions
      • Updating a cell with an event
      • Iterating over infopad cells
  •  Persistent maps
    • Defining persistent maps, keys, and values
    • Creating persistent map instances
    • Defining persistent map
    • Accessing persistent maps and map instances
    • Associating keys to persistent maps
    • Discarding persistent maps and map instances from memory
  •  Using persistent maps
    • Updating attributes of a given key
    • Using various operators to perform actions
    • Iterating over persistent map keys
•  Event channels
  •  The database event channel (DEC)
    • postDB predefined rule action
    • Configuring the database event channel
  •  The JMS event channel
    •  JMS message adapter
      • Running the sample program
    • postJMS predefined rule action
•  XML messages
  • Namespace declaration
  • XML type
  •  XML data field access syntax
    • Dot notation for XML data fields
    • Bracket notation for XML data fields
    • Function notation for XML data fields
  •  XML data conversion
    • XPath rule condition
    • XPath query expression/statement
  •  New syntax for iteration
    • Foreach syntax for iteration
•  Accessing Java objects and EJB components
  •  Rule language extensions
    • Mapping data types
    • Object instantiation
    • Static method invocation or property access
    • Instance method invocation or property access
    • Exception catching
    • Exception throwing
    • Using complex Java objects in rules
    • Using external java objects in rules
  • Searching class files
  • Mixing two separate instance of a class
  • EJB component invocation
  •  Dynamic loading
    • Using modified class implementation in BPM Events
    • Using modified class implementation in BPM Events when signature of the Java class is changed
•  Administering and operating BPM Events
  •  The rule development cycle
    • Rule compiling
    • RuleCompiler command options
    • Setting up and monitoring the database persistence tables
    •  Starting and operating the BPM Events server
      • Starting BPM Events from Business Process Portal
      • Starting BPM Events from the Start menu
      • Starting BPM Events from the BPM Events component
      • Monitoring the server with BPM Events Admin utility
      • Loading rules using BPM Events Admin utility
      • Viewing an installed infopad using BPM Events Admin utility
      • Application upgrade scenarios
      • Upgrading a dynamic application
      • Log files and output files
    •  Loading rules
      • Loading rules using Business Process Portal’s Administration module
      • Loading rules using BPM Events Admin
    •  Unloading rules
      • Unloading rules from BPM Events Admin utility
      • Points about unloading rules
  •  Troubleshooting cases
    • Fixing with full recovery
    • Fixing by upgrading application
    • Fixing with recovery and partial rule upgrade
  •  BPM Events Admin — BPM Events administrator utility
    • Functions
    • Starting BPM Events Admin
    • BPM Events Admin main menu
    • Server Monitor menu
    • Loader menu
    • Rule Manager menu
    •  Persistent Structure Monitor menu
      • Infopad Monitor submenu
      • Persistent Map Monitor submenu
    • Event Manager menu
    • Scheduler menu
    • File Manager menu
    • JMS menu
  •  Event management
    • Processing external and internal events
    •  Transactional and serial events
      • Transactional external events
      • Serialized external events
    • Event scheduling
    • Event caching and indexing
    • Internal events handling
    • Cache management from the application
  •  Persistence and recovery
    • Infopad persistence
    • Database access failure handling
    •  Keeping the recovery backup up-to-date
      • Event cache synchronization
      • Rules synchronization
      • Infopad synchronization
      • Scheduler synchronization
      • Event counter synchronization and management
  • Loading and recovering applications
  • BPM Events configuration parameters
•  Using the purchase order rule wizard
  • Applying the purchase order template
  • Using the purchase order template
•  Rule syntax
  • Language tokens (Reserved keywords)
  • Rule module syntax
• Predefined functions and operators
•  Recovery of global variables and file handling
  • Global variables and values
  • Recovering global variables
  • File reopening after recovery
• ACL manager
• Activity workstep
• Adapter
• Administration
• Application
• Balanced scorecard
• BAM
• BPM Events
• BPM Webflow
• BPEL
• BPMN
• BP Server
• Business calendar
• Business flow
• Business logic
• Business object
• Business process
• Business Process Server application
• Business Process Server Web services
• Business Process Portal
• Business process management
• Business Process Modeler
• Business rule
• Control flow
• Dashboard
• Dataslot
• Expression editor
• Group
• Heatmap
• Home
• Infopad
• Instance
• KPI
• Managed Adapter
• Management
• Migration
• Performer
• Presentation flow
• Process engine
• Process refresh
• Process template
• Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
• Role
• Rollback
• Rule wizard
• Swim lanes
• Task
• User
• Workflow