Building and launching tasks

Task components are used to handle operations and integrate their corresponding panels into the Desktop. A business function can be launched from any TaskLauncher component and a Task is created for that function. A TaskLauncher can either completely define a task or use its mandatory taskName attribute to refer to a TaskInfo where the task is defined.

The Desktop provides the following functions to launch and build tasks:

There are two kind of tasks: toolkit tasks and Java(TM) external tasks. The toolkit tasks launch operations or processes (from the flow processor). Note that operations convert to business process calls in the application presentation layer. See Operations for more information. Java external tasks launch Java applications.