WS-BPEL 2.0 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – assigning a human task

Each human task has to be assigned to a human to fulfill it. Such a human is called a participant. Generally, we can assign a human task to a specific user or group of users. In the latter case, a user has to claim a task before he can start working on it. We assign a human task to a specific user if we know exactly who should fulfill the task. Otherwise, we can assign the task to a group, and a user (for example an employee) from that group can claim the task and fulfill it.

To simplify our example, we will assign the human task to a specific user:

1. To assign the human task, we will switch to the Assignment tab, where we can assign the human task to a user, group, or an application role.
2. We will drag-and-drop ...