Heritage artifacts
IBM® Business Process Manager contains a number of artifacts that are labeled heritage.
A heritage artifact is a technology that belongs to a previous
version of IBM Business Process Manager but
remains supported in the current version, although a newer version
of the artifact using a different technology is available. The heritage
artifact remains supported in the current version until IBM identifies it as deprecated or removed. IBM Business Process Manager uses
heritage artifacts to support existing process applications so that
there is no need to upgrade them. While you can develop new applications
by using heritage artifacts, the recommended approach is to use the
new replacement artifacts to take advantage of their enhancements.
Important: Heritage artifacts are not necessarily directly compatible
with artifacts in later versions. See the limitations in the table
of heritage artifacts for information.
The following table lists the heritage artifacts, the artifacts
that replaced them and when the replacement occurred, and limitations
that apply with using the heritage artifact.
| Heritage artifact | Current artifact | Limitations |
|---|---|---|
| Heritage coaches | Coaches and coach views in version 8.0.0.0 | Heritage coaches (pre-8.0.0.0 technology) cannot be added to client-side human services (8.5.5.0 technology). However, process applications can contain both heritage human services and client-side human services, and heritage human services can contain heritage coaches. |
| Heritage human services | Client-side human services in version 8.5.5.0 | Calling another client-side human service or heritage human service from within a client-side human service is not supported. |