Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0 Developer's Guide

Introduction to SAW

SAW is a generic workflow API to perform human workflow interaction with various workflow engines. SAW provides a framework to plug-in any business process specific implementation that implements SAW interfaces. SAW is shipped with a default implementation for Sun JavaTM Composite Application Platform Suite. You can have similar SAW implementations for other business processes such as JBoss Business Process Management (jBPM) and Open Enterprise Service Bus (OpenESB).