Alerts from external application

In addition to Business Process Server, an external application can also send a JMS message with alert information to a Business Process Server queue. Messages sent to this queue are processed by Business Process Server. If the selector property in the message matches with the required value, then it is identified as an alert message. Business Process Server collects the required data values and publishes the alert. Once Business Process Server publishes the alert for the intended recipients, they can see it in their My Alerts page.

As external alerts are not associated with any Business Process Server application, they do not have any process context associated with the alert messages. Therefore, Business Process Server cannot support external alert messages with dataslots. However, Business Process Server supports alert messages with dataslots for alert messages defined in a Business Process Server application.

The alert message must be sent in the specified structure to the Business Process Server queue. This message must contain the message selector property and message body. The message must be of type ObjectMessage, and a Map object must be set on that ObjectMessage.

The following Table 15 explains the message property details for the JMS message with alert information.

This property is mandatory, and must have the specified value.

The following Table 16 explains the message body details for the JMS message with alert information.

All the above properties are mandatory.