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Application states for advanced process applications

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It is important to understand the differences between the installed and deployed application states when working with advanced process applications, which are process applications created in IBM® Integration Designer.

In Business Automation Workflow, the snapshot information is updated with each heartbeat from Workflow Server to Workflow Center. The snapshot information includes the following data:

  • The number of active process instances for the snapshot.
  • Whether the snapshot is installed on the workflow server.
  • The installation status of the snapshot, which indicates the specific point in the installation process where the snapshot currently resides.

When an advanced process application is in an installed state, all artifacts have been imported into the Workflow Center or Workflow Server database. When an advanced process application is in a deployed state, all advanced artifacts have been extracted from the database and packaged as a business-level application, which has been deployed to, and is started on, Workflow Center or Workflow Server.

An advanced process application must be installed to be deployed, but it does not need to be deployed to be installed. For example, if you have an advanced process application that is installed (and exists in the database) but you have undeployed it (which removes the advanced content from the server), Workflow Center will report that the process application is installed.