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What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

new-comer — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:20:42 GMT

Hi,If I only need the BPM Engine and Web based editor, what are the steps and which files that I need to deploy the engine and editor to my application server, let's say JBoss app server.Thanks in advance.

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

frederikherema1 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:01:28 GMT

To use the web-based modeler, you can just take the activiti-modeler war, located in the demo-setup webapps exploded, or in tomcat or in the activiti downloads folder (don't forget to remove the -5.3 from the filename 'activiti-modeler-5.3.war' in case you use the one in downloads).

If you only want to use the BPM-engine, you have multiple options. You can just deploy the activiti-rest webapp, to enable external access to the engine via REST. Another way is to use the activiti-engine in your webapp as a library. What do you exactly mean with 'deploying the BPM engine' ?

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

new-comer — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:17:31 GMT

Actually I would like to use it as a library inside my web app, so which jar should I include in my project?

If I use the engine as a library, is there any change to deploy the editor? Can I directly deploy the business process to the Engine?

Thanks.

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

new-comer — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:19:31 GMT

Thanks for your reply. Actually I would like to use it as a library inside my web app, so which jar should I include in my project?

If I use the engine as a library, is there any change to deploy the editor? Can I directly deploy the business process to the Engine?

Thanks again.

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

jbarrez — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:53:30 GMT

Actually I would like to use it as a library inside my web app, so which jar should I include in my project

Check the txt's you can find in /setup/files/dependencies. All dependencies of each component is listed there.

If I use the engine as a library, is there any change to deploy the editor? Can I directly deploy the business process to the Engine?

No, the editor is self-contained

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

new-comer — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:23:02 GMT

Thanks for your response.

But can I directly deploy the process from the web designer to BPM engine? Any tips?

Thanks,

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

jbarrez — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:33:16 GMT

No, you must take the file (xxx.bpmn20.xml) that de Modeler produces, and deploy it to the engine, see http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#chDeployment

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

new-comer — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:51:18 GMT

Thanks for the input, it is useful.

One more question, can I run the database script on my existing database, e.g. MS SQL Server or Oracle? I believe the answer is yes, but where can I get the db scripts? and what settings that I need to consider other than data source in my web application?

Thanks in advance.

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

frederikherema1 — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:12:21 GMT

Hi,

There is no reason why you should run the database-scripts manually. Pointing the engine to your oracle-datasource and starting it, should create the schema (if the engine property dataBaseSchemaUpdate = true).
See http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#databaseConfiguration

Other settings for the engine are here: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#N102A0, most of them are quite trivial and the others are only for advanced usage.

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

new-comer — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:26:47 GMT

Yes, if we use the Activiti engine as a java library in my product, and we will need to create the database the same time as we create our own database, and from customer point of view, they want to know what we are doing with their database, so they would want to run the script themselves. So we would like to create the schema in the same data source with our product.

Please let me know if there is any docs that indicates this scenario.

Thanks a lot!

Re: What are the steps to deploy workflow engine and web editor

frederikherema1 — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:52:14 GMT

The create-scripts (and updates) can be found in the activiti-engine project, also in the jar:
/activiti-engine/src/main/resources/org/activiti/db/create/**.sql