Introduction

This sample demonstrates how you can model escalations for human tasks. It covers how to:

• Create escalations,
• Create escalation chains and parallel escalations,
• Create notification event handler plug-ins,
• Send escalation events to a notification event handler plug-in.

Prerequisites

This sample relies on the federated user repository VMM (Virtual Member Manager) that is shipped with WebSphere® Process Server 7.0. Before you can run the sample, you have to ensure that the user groups and users as outlined in figure 2 in the Overview section are available on your system.

These user groups and users can be created running a command line script.

If you are using Windows (TM) and have administrator privileges for the WebSphere Application Server, then a simple command line script for adding the required groups and users may look like this:
ADDUSERS2.BAT

Similarly, these user groups and users can be deleted again after finishing this sample; a simple command line script for Windows looks like this:
DELETEUSERS2.BAT

Note that you may have to customize these command line scripts to reflect:

• your WebSphere Integration Developer installation directory;
• the port used to connect to the server;
• administrator userid and password.