Human tasks

Human interaction is required for many business use cases that involve some kind of approvals or actions from a person. One of the examples of human tasks is an approval service or termination service. An approver gets notifications about pending tasks from the human workflow, as shown in the next figure. The approver client can take action based on the request. BPEL will process the request based on the input from the approver client. The process may have to wait for the Human Task to complete.

Human tasks have various specifications, such as task properties, people assignments, task owners, task administrators, timeouts, escalations and notifications. Once a BPEL service associated with a Human Task is invoked, a task is created and assigned to a person or a group. Once the person finishes the task, the service is marked as completed.

As shown in the following figure, drag-and-drop Human Task from SOA Component Palette to the JDeveloper console:

After adding the Human Task from...