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Newbie question: Activiti's usefulness for CI environments

abrindeyev — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:43:03 GMT

Hi, everybody!I'm new to Activiti and wondering if it can help me to build a core of my company's continuous integration system or not.We're using Jenkins as core of our CI system. It's a common tool for developers and QA's. However, from CI pipeline construction standpoint it's a bad solution:1. Yo

Re: Newbie question: Activiti's usefulness for CI environments

jbarrez — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:59:21 GMT

Did you check the https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkow+Plugin - that is adding activiti support to jenkins.

It sure is a long read - but if I understand correctly it sure would be a *huge* effort to get all you want into Jenkins!
But my answer is going to be 'of course Activiti can do it!' (but I'm biased 😉 )

Re: Newbie question: Activiti's usefulness for CI environments

abrindeyev — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:19:35 GMT

Joram, Jenkow plugin is exactly how I discovered Activiti 🙂

I need help to implement a simple workflow — how can stop process with error when one of parallel jobs failed? I need to specify this condition somehow in BPM "alphabet".

Andrey.

Re: Newbie question: Activiti's usefulness for CI environments

jbarrez — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:04 GMT

There are various way to do this, but one could be to put an embedded subprocess around all the steps and fire an event (eg an error event) and catch it on the boundary, which cancels all internal steps.