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Activiti Project as a REST Web Application (Server)

challengeactivi — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:24:18 GMT

Hey,I am not sure what the best way to go about this is. Currently I have an Activiti Project which is able to deploy a process on the activiti-explorer application.I need a way for this project to be activated via a web service, as a c# application needs to call it and query it for information.I g

Re: Activiti Project as a REST Web Application (Server)

trademak — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:49:54 GMT

It's definitely the easiest to use the activiti-rest.war application that's part of the Activiti download. This already contains a REST service to deploy a new process definition to the Activiti Engine.

Best regards,

Re: Activiti Project as a REST Web Application (Server)

challengeactivi — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:44:31 GMT

hey, i was thinking that but the API is essentially java.

I have 2 questions regarding that. Can the API
- deploy a new Activiti like the simple application in the user guide?
- will i have to make c# wrappers for API methods if i want to use them from my app

Re: Activiti Project as a REST Web Application (Server)

hyapit — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:27:08 GMT

Let me know if I misunderstands you:

You are running a Java server that hosts Activiti engine. And you have a C# app as its client doing RESTful to the server.

The problem you stated in your first post:
NoClassDefFoundError indicates that your Activiti jars are not in your build path.

To answer your questions:
1. AFAIK, Activiti jars are for running embedded Activiti in process. I have never tried activiti-rest.war as @trademark suggested. Seems like you should give this a shot.
2. I'm not sure I follow where you are heading, but you are running Activiti on Java server right? no need for C# wrappers.