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venky · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject: Human Task API

Hi All,

I am in the process of designing a role based authorization process for a human task.

Here is our scenario. We have a web service client that will be starting/stopping business process, and also claiming inline human tasks, work on and complete the human task - all of these have to be implemented on role based authorizations - that is, the user who is logged into the web service client application should be passed in to the human task API and if there are any human tasks pending for that user, then the taskList should be returned to the calling web service client.

I understand that there is an EJB API, web service API, REST API and JMS API available to access the inline human tasks - but among these, which one will be suitable for the scenario here?

My understanding is that either using the web service API and enabling userName token to pass the security information or/ to use implement an EJB client and expose the EJB client as a web service again with security enabled using userName token. In both these cases, how will the user identity be propagated to the human task engine ? Is there a link that explains this?

Or alternatively, can I disable security for the web service and have the web service client send the user name manually in the payload and use that user name to pass it on to the Human task API and retrieve the pending tasks for that specific user - in this case what class, method should I invoke to pass the user info and get the tasks back ?

Any reference material, example etc.., will be helpful.

Thanks in advance, V.