Business Space Development Mashup application with WebSphere Process server

Introduction: This article is based on the new features of the V6.2.0.1 version of Business space, which describes how to use JavaScript, Ajax, JSON, and other technologies to develop Mashup applications. Through this article, readers can understand the new features of Business space (business spaces) V6.2.0.1, and how to use these new features to rapidly develop business process application systems in business space.

Introduction

WebSphere-supported business space (business spaces) is one of the key components of the IBM WebSphere BPM product line, providing a collaborative and role-based user experience for a wide range of users. Business Space consolidates WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Business Service Fabric, WebSphere Modeler Publishin Features of products such as G Server, FileNet BPM, and create agile, powerful Web 2.0 applications for customers by using widgets (hereinafter referred to as widgets).

A Mashup is a new web-based interactive application that integrates content from multiple sources and delivers it to a page for display.

Ajax, made up of HTML, javascript™ technology, DHTML and DOM, is a powerful tool for building mashup applications. It enables WEB pages to get content from the server and to update itself asynchronously in the right place using JavaScript code. This allows the user to interact with the specified user interface without reloading the entire page.

In AJAX applications, when JavaScript makes asynchronous requests, the response is not always in XML format, because XML often lacks a local, easy-to-use JavaScript parser. In this case, using JSON is a good choice. JSON, the JavaScript Object notation, is a lightweight data interchange format that works well for server-JavaScript interactions.

The widget is the most basic customizable unit in the business space, and it is the foundation of the Business Space application. In a business space, you can create one or more mashup pages, then add widgets to each mashup page and configure them, and finally bind the widgets together to work together to form a mashup application in the business space.

The purpose of this article is to introduce new features in the business space V6.2.0.1 version of Small and medium components integration, and how to develop Mashup applications using JavaScript, Ajax, and JSON techniques based on these new features.

The question of the proposed

The business space provided by WebSphere provides users with a number of predefined widgets, including IBM PBM product-related business widgets, and some common widgets such as Web Site, demos, and Google calendars. These predefined widgets can be easily and flexibly displayed on the page to meet the user's basic business needs. Before V6.2.0.1, however, the logical relationship and messaging between the widgets in the business space must be predefined during development and cannot be configured flexibly at run time. It is still a big challenge for users to flexibly match the various widgets to their own enterprise or organization status to achieve the goal of truly freely customizing business processes.

Solution

Is there any good way to solve the problem? Before the business space is V6.2.0.1, users have to recreate the widgets to meet their business needs. To address this problem, the business space V6.2.0.1 specifically provides new features to meet the needs of users to quickly and flexibly build mashup applications based on existing widgets.