(1) A defined task that an application performs on an object as a result of an event.
(2) An access control list (ACL) permission attribute.
(3) A single step that specifies a unit of work in a collaboration business process. See also action node, activity, code fragment, collaboration template.
(4) The specification of an executable statement that forms an abstraction of a computational procedure. An action typically results in a change in the state of the system, and can be realized by sending a message to an object or modifying a link or a value of an attribute.
(5) In a policy-enabled system, a type of unsolicited decision that specifies the operation or set of operations to run when a policy is evaluated, selected, and executed. In Policy Management for Autonomic Computing, only a single operation is supported.
(6) An instruction in an artifact that defines a change management operation that needs to be performed in a hosting environment.
(7) A series of processing steps, such as document validation and transformation.
(8) In a business rule, the event that results from the evaluation of the condition.
(9) An activity that is run on a transition.