BEA WebLogic Collaborate 2.0: Workflows

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	Working with Workflows
	Working with Business Protocols
	Working with Lightweight Clients
	Developing Applications
	Reference

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Conversations are an essential part of business-to-business communication. You can use a workflow to implement and execute a role in a WebLogic Collaborate conversation. WebLogic Collaborate provides a plug-in to the WebLogic Process Integrator Studio that allows you to create workflows for use with WebLogic Collaborate. These workflows are called collaborative workflows.

Creating Workflows

See Creating Workflows for BEA WebLogic Collaborate for instructions for the following tasks:

	Defining conversation properties for workflow templates
	Starting and stopping collaborative workflows
	Sending, receiving, and manipulating business messages

For information about workflows for use with RosettaNet, see Using Workflows with RosettaNet in Implementing RosettaNet for BEA WebLogic Collaborate.

For information about workflows for use with cXML, see Using Workflows with cXML in Implementing cXML for BEA WebLogic Collaborate.

Working with WebLogic Process Integrator

The following documents describe how to work with WebLogic Process Integrator, which is the tool that you use to create workflows:

	Learning to Use BEA WebLogic Process Integrator
	Using the BEA WebLogic Process Integrator Studio
	Using the BEA WebLogic Process Integrator Worklist

API Reference

You can write Java applications that perform workflow functions, such as starting a workflow or manipulating a business message. These applications need to use the com.bea.b2b.wlpi package, which is documented in the Javadoc.