Seaside Component Model

A Seaside component is a programmable component that can be called from the BPM Web Application to perform a customized operation.

Usually each task in Bizagi Modeler ® is an Orbeon Form but it is also possible to use a Seaside component. The Seaside component provides a programmable way to perform very specialized behavior that can not be achieved with a Form.

To create a Seaside component there are various step that must be taken.

Create a subclass of BpmSeasideIntegrationObject
This subclass is the domain class that will perform the specialized behavior and it will be used by the Web class that is the interface for this behavior. The subclass must comply with the following protocol:
Class Side

classOf: fieldName

This method must answer the GemStone/S type of the field named [fieldName]. The possible types are:

• AppFieldStringValue
• AppFieldDateValue
• AppFieldTimeValue
• AppFieldTimeStampValue
• AppFieldNumberValue
• AppFieldBooelanValue

getObjectName

This method answer aString with the name of the component. The name must be unique in the BPM Process

searchFields

This method must answer anArray which is a sub set of the fields of the receiver. These fields are going to be used for fast/indexed search.

summaryFields

This method must answer anArray which is a sub set of the fields of the receiver. These fields are going to be displayed in the Web App as description of a task.

Instance Side

fieldValueAt: fieldName

Asnwer a GemStone/S object that represent the value of field named [fieldName].

getAllFields

This method must answer aCollection with all field's names.

Create a subclass of WASeasideBpmIntegration
This subclass render the Web page which is the interface class for the domain class.
The component must comply with the following protocol:
Class Side

defaultModel

This method must answer an instance of the domain class.