org.kuali.rice.kew.engine

Interface WorkflowEngine

All Known Subinterfaces:

SimulationWorkflowEngine

All Known Implementing Classes:

BlanketApproveEngine, SimulationEngine, StandardWorkflowEngine

public interface WorkflowEngine

Defines the contract to the core workflow engine. The standard unit of work of the engine is the process method. Document must also be initialized by the WorkflowEngine when they are initially created.

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	initializeDocument(DocumentRouteHeaderValue document)
void	process(String documentId, String nodeInstanceId)

Method Detail

process

void process(String documentId,
           String nodeInstanceId)
             throws Exception

Throws:

Exception

initializeDocument

void initializeDocument(DocumentRouteHeaderValue document)

Throws:

IllegalDocumentTypeException - if the given document could not be initialized successfully