Working with the BPM APIs

Use

The Business Process Management (BPM) application programming interfaces (APIs) enable you to customize and enhance the way you use business processes and execute tasks.

To be able to use the BPM APIs, you need to add to your project the necessary dependencies to development component tc/bpem/facade/ear (public part api ) in software component BPEM-FACADE , and tc/je/sdo21/api in software component ENGFACADE .

All operations provided by the BPM API require a transactional context. For more information, see Transaction Handling .

For a detailed description of the BPM public APIs, see http://help.sap.com/javadocs Information published on SAP site .

The following table lists the tasks you can execute using the BPM APIs:

Task	Related Documentation
Build your own task worklist	Building a Task Worklist with the BPM API
Build your own task execution UI	Building an Execution UI with the BPM API
Start a process	Starting a Process with the BPM API
Execute a task using SAP StreamWork as collaboration platform	BPM-SW Public APIs
Create substitution rules	Using Substitution Rules with the BPM API
Create your own administration UI	Building an Administration UI with the BPM API
Obtain statistics about processes, tasks and events for business process administrators and business task administrators.	Analytics Public API for Business Users
Enable search for process instances based on the process context data reported in the reporting data sources	BPM API for Reporting Data Source-Based Search
Provide your own value help in the task UI of the BPM process	Providing Value Help Using BPM API