Oracle BPM Composer and no ADF

Question

Hi Everyone,
We are planning to use Oracle BPM as our BPM engine. But our organization doesn't support ADF. So could anyone help to answer the below questions. Thanks a lot for your time.
1) Can we use Oracle BPM Composer... Does Oracle BPM composer require extended ADF Domain?
2) Default BPM workspace can't be used. So we need to build our own workspace. Are they any predefined framework to build a MVC or any other java framework to build workspace.
3)Could anyone let me know the additional things we should take care in case we don't use ADF domain.
Thanks everyone for your time.

Answer 1

Oracle BPM Studio (JDeveloper) is used by developers to create processes, human tasks, the process instance payloads, the composite services used by the processes, complex transformations, business rules and the ADF UIs.
Composer is a business user oriented web based tool used by business analysts with similar capabilities.  Using Composer, business people can create and maintain processes, define process instance payloads, human tasks, process payloads, business rules.  Instead of creating ADF UIs, you create and test web forms using a web based UI web form designer tool that it comes with in 11.1.1.7. Because the forms built using Composer can only be viewed from the Workspace or WebCenter Spaces tools, and because you're not going to use the Workspace or WebCenter Spaces tools, you won't be able to use Composer to create your UIs.
You might want to rethink your decision to not use the Workspace or WebCenter Spaces tools, but because you're not going to use either one you will instead be building your forms using the form design tool of your choice.
Although I'd advise you against recreating it, you'll need to become comfortable using the different APIs Oracle BPM exposes if you're going to try to duplicate the Workspace and WebCenter Spaces tool functionality.
Here's the API JavaDoc and a few blogs that will give you some tips on getting started:
API JavaDoc reference -
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/apirefs.1111/e25378/toc.htm
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/apirefs.1111/e10660/oracle/bpel/services/workflow/query/ITaskQueryService.html
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28389_01/apirefs.1111/e25378/oracle/bpm/services/instancequery/IInstanceQueryService.html
Simple list example -
http://soadev.blogspot.in/2011/07/querying-oracle-bpm-process-instances.html
Aborting instances -
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/apirefs.1111/e10659/oracle/soa/management/facade/package-tree.html
Creating instances -
http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/invoking-bpm-processes-via-java.html
Building a custom worklist ap -
http://redstack.wordpress.com/worklist/
http://redstack.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/creating-the-domain-layer-for-the-worklist/
http://redstack.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/implementing-task-initiation/
Purging Instances -
http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/soabpm-apis-manipulating-composites-and.html
Instance Query -
http://java.net/projects/oraclebpmsuite11g/downloads/directory/Samples/bpm-api-101-instance-query
Human Workflow Services / Human Task API -
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/dev.1111/e10224/bp_workflow.htm
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/apirefs.1111/e10660/toc.htm
Oracle BPM 11g Human Workflow Service Java API – Part 1
   http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/oracle-human-workflow-service-java-api.html
Oracle BPM 11g Human Workflow Service Java API – Part 2
   http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-workflow-java-api-part-2.html
Oracle BPM 11g Human Workflow Service Java API – Part 3 – ITaskQueryService.AssignmentFilter
   http://niallcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/12/oracle-human-workflow-part-3.html
UMS API:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/apirefs.1111/e14011/toc.htm
Dan