Designer Best Practices

In a Designer service, you can access data from BPMN process instances from the outside, e.g. from another Designer service. This article describes how you can do this using either the xUML Runtime API or the xUML service API.

A comparison between Action Script and JavaScript, and when to use what.

This article describes the change in the development process that comes with PAS 23.1, where development and deployment have been decoupled to speed-up development.

This article describes how you can make services, that have been deployed from the Designer, available to others. You can publish them via Scheer PAS API Management and restrict their usage with additional policies.

This article describes the procedure to go live with a Designer service from a test system to a productive system.

By default, the database that stores all persistent states for the BPMN process is a SQLite database that resides in the xUML service container itself. This article describes how you can use any other supported RDBMS system.

In xUML services, developers can define so-called settings. In this article we explain how to define name and default value of a custom service setting in the Designer.

Before you start with the actual implementation of your integration project, it is worth making some preliminary considerations. In this article, we share our many years of project experience with you and give you some tips for sensible project planning.

This article contains a number of recommendations that you should consider when developing your own libraries for use in Scheer PAS Designer.

Part of the Modeling Guidelines. In this article, we give an overview on the differences between the service log and the transaction log. With useful hints on how to integrate logging in your own services.

Our modeling guidelines help you to better organize, develop, and document your Designer project.

Sometimes it is necessary to transport a service from one system to another. If one of the points explained on this page applies to your service, you must take action.

Versioning is an important topic to consider when you develop your own libraries in the Designer. This article describes our recommendations.

Versioning is an important topic to consider when you develop services in the Designer. This article describes our recommendations.