 | What is New? WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2 was announced on 10/10/2006 available now (see below for details) WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1 Fix Pack 3 for Windows platforms is now available WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1 Fix Pack 2 for Windows platforms is now available Recommended Fixes for WebSphere Process Server
New features in WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2: - Integrates more out-of-the box Web services, application adapters, and advanced messaging capabilities.
The new WebSphere MQ JMS binding extends WebSphere MQ assets as part of your process server. The WebSphere MQ native binding support provides easier and faster integration with WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere MQ. The WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, and WebSphere Application Server stack can leverage the same JMS bindings as used with WebSphere MQ, reaching the 80 platforms that WebSphere MQ supports. - Supports service governance with dynamic run-time lookup and invocation of services.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository integration with WebSphere Process Server provides true end-to-end governance for all services, dynamically finding and invoking services and service metadata information at run time. - Allows easy-to-use comprehensive human-centric business process management (BPM) scenarios:
- Provides a Web client generation tool for business users to generate user interfaces and task lists.
- Has a customizable out-of-the-box administration and configuration client for administrators.
- Has enhanced support for users to build clients for business users from powerful JSF components for both Web-based and WebSphere Portal clients.
- Supports a secure Web services interface for generic workflow client applications on any platform, including .NET and J2EE (which means easier access for remote clients to interact with the process).
- Provides a remote client install option, which provides an environment for custom remote clients that use the WebSphere Process Server APIs (not just on the same system as WebSphere Process Server).
- Allows work to be assigned to a group, or team, of individuals who all share the same job or responsibility, in shifts or in parallel.
- Handles ad hoc tasks: Gives line of business users the flexibility to create additional tasks (insert additional tasks into a task-list), schedule follow-up work for the same user, or follow-on tasks for co-workers, and handle events that were not planned for in advance.
- Allows a customized e-mail message for human task escalations (for example, to alert a manager that a task has not been processed).
- Post-processing of staff query results allows you to plug in customer-specific workforce management policies, such as staff workload balancing, substitute when absent, or prefer active users, and supports the integration of additional custom staff repositories.
- Allows you to query and filter lists of business processes based on client-specific process data, such as order ID or client name; and store those queries and filters as private views.
- Allows you to redistribute tasks in reflection of organizational staff and responsibility changes, using a timer-controlled daemon.
- Allows you to automatically present users the next task at hand within the same business process, using a server-controlled page flow capability.
- Provides users with a graphical view of processes, to track status and drill down into each individual activity.
- Provides run-time administration improvements (dynamic reconfiguration, with no need to rebuild or redeploy).
- Administration configuration of mediation properties and end points
- Dynamic end-point selection: the administrator can intervene to get part of the process to interface to a different system (for example, to change from Oracle to Siebel dynamically for future process instances)
- Ability to handle unmodeled faults from Web service invocations
- Ability to add mediation modules after deployment without going into WebSphere Integration Developer
- Event sequencing: Preserve the processing sequence of events in which they were generated remotely.
- Configurable clean-up service to automatically delete business process instances from the database.
- New IT-level observation, reporting, and statistic capabilities that offer graphical charts and flexible drill-down capabilities for historical and accumulated data such as average process duration or actual work time.
- Enables tight integration between information services and business processes:
- Introduces an Information Service Activity that provides direct access to relational database systems with the support of full SQL and interaction with other information management services (for example, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)) and federated access to heterogeneous information sources such as ECM systems
- Supports the WebSphere Integration Developer tooling plug-in for information management activities
- Provides business rule design time, run time, and operational improvements:
- Ability to support more common business rule logic scenarios, including specifying initialization logic for a decision table, specifying an "otherwise" clause on decision table conditions and using "return" option available in rule sets to force execution of rule list to end
- Simplified rule programming model lowers development time and cost
- Improved visibility to business rule changes is enabled through new audit capabilities, including support for an "approval" scenario as rules are promoted from one environment to another
- New business rule import and export capability greatly simplifies the process of maintaining consistency between server or environment instances
- Has support for IBM DB2 on z/OS as a remote data base management system (DBMS).
- Delivers simplified server configuration using the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment console for clusters and multiple cells.
Additional platform support - Provides additional platform support for Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86-64), HP-UX 11i2 (PA-RISC), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and Linux on zSeries (64-bit).
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