As part of the step, you can specify one or more tasks to be configured and executed. Tasks reside in their own XML file, named tasks.xml, and are referred to from wizards.xml. The id specified in the wizards.xml file’s task element must match the id of a task defined in tasks.xml. For an example of a tasks.xml file, see the <ATG10dir>/CIM/plugins/base directory in your Oracle ATG Web Commerce installation.

In the task, you specify the name and Java class. This identifies to CIM the component that is going to do the work of the task, so that CIM can set properties on that component. Input passes through the following series of layers:

The task element’s property element refers to a component property to which the input should be assigned. Within the input element, you can include a label, which is displayed in the user interface, and one or more validators to check the entered text (see the Adding Validators section of this chapter).

Task examples are shown in the sections that follow.