Preface

About This Manual

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This manual, iPlanet Process Administrator's and Business Manager's Guide, provides information for administering iPlanet Process Manager clusters, applications, process instances and work items.

This manual assumes you have installed Process Manager on your system. For installation instructions, see the Process Manager Installation Guide.

Administering iPlanet Process Manager

Typically, two different roles are involved in administering Process Manager: information technology administrators (IT administrators) and business managers.

• IT administrators are responsible for installing and maintaining Process Manager and for managing clusters and deployed applications.
• Business managers perform administrative tasks for managing process instances and work items.

During the development phase, developers may find themselves performing both roles—they need to administer applications to clean up test applications and they need to administer process instances to clean up test process instances and work items.

• Chapter 1 "Introduction" describes the components of Process Manager. Both IT Administrators and Business Process Managers should read this chapter.
• Chapters 2 through 6 provide information needed by IT Administrators.
• Chapters 7 and 8 provide information needed by Business Process Managers.

Conventions Used in This Manual

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File and directory paths are given in Windows format (with backslashes separating directory names). For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except slashes are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.

This guide uses URLs of the form:

http://server.domain/path/file.html

In these URLs, server is the name of server on which you run your application; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the directory structure on the server; and file is an individual filename. Italic items in URLs are placeholders.

This guide uses the following font conventions:

• The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), file names, path names, directory names, and HTML tags.
• Italic type is used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense. It is also used for glossary terms.

Viewing Documentation

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For your convenience, iPlanet Process Manager manuals are provided in both PDF and HTML formats. You can access the documentation from the Help menu of each Process Manager component. You can access context-sensitive documentation by clicking a Help button or link in each Process Manager component.

The location of the documentation in your distribution is at:

iPM_Install_Dir/builder/manual

The documentation is also available at the Sun documentation web site:

http://docs.sun.com/

For Further Information

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Table 1 summarizes the tasks involved in using Process Manager and explains where to go for more information about each task.

Table 1    Summary of Process Manager Components

Do What?	Which Process Manager Component?	Comments
Install Process Manager	Installation component	For more information about installing Process Manager, see the Process Manager Installation Guide
Build a process application	Process Builder	Process Builder is a graphical user interface for building process applications. For more information, read the Process Builder's Guide.
Perform the steps in a process	Process Express	Process Express is a web-based interface used by the people who perform tasks in a process. It includes a customized worklist for each qualified user as well as a web-based form for each task. For more information about Process Express, see the Process Express User's Guide.
Administer a process application	Process Administrator and Business Manager	Process Administrator and Business Manager are a set of web-based interfaces for performing administration tasks such as: creating, deleting, and joining Process Manager clusters, and administering process applications deployed to clusters. For more information, read the Process Administrator's and Business Manager's Guide.
Build Java custom data fields and activities in Java. Also use the Java API to programmatically interact with Process Manager.	Process Manager Java classes and API which are available in a JAR file.	Java programmers can build custom data fields and custom activities in Java that can be imported into the Process Builder. Programmers can also create Java applications that embed Process Manager functionality or present customized front ends to Process Manager. Additionally, programmers can create SOAP clients that access web services APIs exposed by Process Manager applications. For more information, see the Process Manager Programmer's Guide.

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Note	Process Manager runs on top of iPlanet Application Server (iAS). For more information about iAS and other iPlanet products, see the Sun documentation web site at http://docs.sun.com/.

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