Headless application

Informally, a headless application is a business process management application that uses flows and other standard Process Commander BPM elements, but has no user interface at all, or presents forms, assignments, and other information to users through an external mechanism, rather than work object forms.

For example an application that delivers straight-through-processing can be characterized as "headless".

A headless application can present forms to users using Active Server Pages (ASP), Java Server Pages (JSP) or similar technologies. Communication from the client system to Process Commander can occur through JSR-94 services, SOAP services, or other services.

The BPM Engine API, a collection of standard activities that apply to the Work- base class, provides a way for headless applications to execute flow rules, bypassing all Show-HTML methods. C-2467

Headless UNIX server

A UNIX server that has no X11 display component installed is called headless. Process Commander does not require X11, but uses Pure Java AWT Jar files (pja.jar and pjatools.jar) when X11 is not installed.

	business processing management, straight through processing
	Standard activities — Process Engine API

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