Description: Things I'll forget unless I put them somewhere
Here are some notes about creating Custom Work Item Handlers for Red Hat Process Automation Manager (RHPAM). These notes should work for jBPM/KIE BPM as well.
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Custom Tasks and Custom Work Item Handlers allow you implement activities that do more than Script or the OOTB task types (like Email or Log or REST Request). NOTE: I think the terms “Custom Tasks” and “Custom Work Item Handlers” are essentially interchangeable…I can’t figure out why there are two ways to refer to this subject. I guess the Work Item Handler is the actual Java application (a JAR) that does the work and a “Custom Task” is what it looks like when you add the Work Item Definition (WID) and such