Use services to implement the activities in a business
process definition (BPD). When a BPD starts and the tasks within it
are invoked, services perform the required functions.
Service types
Learn about the types of services available in IBM BPM and
when to use each type.
Creating a service
Complete these steps to create a service using IBM Process
Designer.
Building a Decision service
Build a Decision service when you want a decision or condition
in a business rule to determine which process implementation is invoked.
For example, when a certain condition evaluates to true, Process Designer
implements the associated activity or action.
Building a Human service
Build a human service when you want an activity in your
business process definition to create an interactive task that process
participants can perform in a web-based user interface.
Building an Ajax service
Build an Ajax service when you want a Coach View to send
data to or retrieve data from the server asynchronously, such as for
autocompletion in text fields, for default selection values in selection
lists, and so forth.
Building an Advanced Integration service
An Advanced Integration service is used to call a service
implemented in IBM Integration
Designer from
a BPD (via a system task) or another service (via a nested service).
Building a General System service
Use General System services when you want to orchestrate
other background services, manipulate variable data, generate HTML
for a Coach, or perform some other actions that do not require any
integrations or business rules.