Approval groups are either a statically defined or a dynamically generated list of approvers. Approval groups usually are configured by the process owner using the worklist application. Typically, they are used to model subject matter experts outside the transaction's managerial chain of authority, such as human resources or legal counsel, that must act on a task before or after management approval.

Static approval groups are predetermined lists of approvers, while dynamic approval groups generate approver lists at runtime. Dynamic approval groups require:

• delivery of an implementation according to the dynamic approver list interface by the developer

• registration of the implementation as a dynamic approval group using the Oracle BPM Worklist's UI by the IT department

• availability of the class file in a globally well-known directory that is part of the SOA class path