Sun Microsystems 3 manual Performing Application Upgrades

Performing Application Upgrades

4.Right-click and choose Process Definition > Open from the popup menu. The Processes Resident window displays:

By selecting a process instance in the window and opening it (double-click or use the mouse popup menu), you can get the process instance’s activity list, timer list, process attribute list, and so on. From these lists, in turn, you can get information about the state of any activity, timer, or process attribute.

Performing Application Upgrades

If the process logic of a business process application changes, you might need to upgrade process definitions, assignment rule dictionaries, user profiles, and validations—and even client applications or application proxies—depending on the type of change involved.

While properly specifying the upgrade of an iIS enterprise application is the responsibility of an application system designer, it is helpful for a system manager to understand the issues involved.

Under normal conditions, upgrading consists of registering new or updated process definitions to accommodate changes in the business process. This type of upgrade is straightforward.

In some situations, the new or updated process definitions might be based on new or modified assignment rules. In that case a new or modified assignment rule dictionary might have to be registered as well. (In some cases, you only have to register new or modified assignment rule dictionaries because the process definitions do not change.)

Chapter 5 Managing Registrations 153