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Calling an exe from Activiti

parenparikh — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:56:02 GMT

Hello,Is it possible to call an exe as part of a task in Activiti ?. I have tried using groovy and javascript in tasks but it does not seem to work ?Does Activiti support only server side javascript and not client side ?Any alternatives or suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks for your timeRega

Re: Calling an exe from Activiti

trademak — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 08:41:43 GMT

Hi,

We have a shell task that allows you to execute shell commands, maybe that's useful for you.
For the Groovy and Javascript scripting you can do what is allowed as part of JSR 223.

Best regards,

Re: Calling an exe from Activiti

parenparikh — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:40:43 GMT

Hello Tijs,

Many thanks for your quick response. As per your response above the shell command will only run on the server where Activiti is deployed i.e tomcat. What we are exploring is a client to client communication where in we are trying call an exe running on the desktop from the browser client. We thought to inject a custom form with some javascript code to call a local exe and drive the workflow based on the response from the exe (there may be some security restrictions on java script) .

Regards
Paren Parikh