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Some Questions about Activiti

jaco1 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:48:12 GMT

Hi there all. I hope I am posting this in the correct place. I have some question.We have been using Oracle Workflow Standalone for 13 years now. We created our own front end UI using Oracle Forms. This all works very well but time has moved on and Oracle dropped the support for Workflow Standalone

Re: Some Questions about Activiti

jaco1 — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 22:07:38 GMT

Hi there. Somebody will have to kill the spam bots as the forum is useless at this stage.

Re: Some Questions about Activiti

frederikherema1 — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:21:00 GMT

1. Currenlty, there is no admin-tool for monitoring the engine. Although, all API-calls are available (both JAVA and REST) to get all the data out and act on that data, accordingly.

2. UserTask don't need to have an assignee. ALso, you can use an assignee on a task that is not really a user in the identity-tables. you can, for example, assign a task to "oracle-adf" even if it's not a user. later on, you can easilly query for all tasks assigned to that user and completed them using Java API or the REST-api. If the input you get from ADF is not really done by a "user", it's better modelling-practice (however, not mandatory) to use a receive-task or an event to indicate in your BPMN-model that the process is waiting on an external (non-user) action.

3. Yes, using REST-api or a piece of java-logic running in ADF that uses the Java API (see userguide and javadocs on what you can do with our API's)

4. Yes

Re: Some Questions about Activiti

jaco1 — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:23:05 GMT

Thank you so much for your answers. Is there plans to develop a monitoring tool ? The engine is not complete without the ability to monitor what is going on. I know you have the API but we would rather spend our time developing processes than tools to monitor what is going on.

Re: Some Questions about Activiti

martin_grofcik — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:51:28 GMT

Hi.

Another way could be to find products build on the top of Activiti which support monitoring.

Regards
Martin

Re: Some Questions about Activiti

jaco1 — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:16:38 GMT

Hi Martin. Can you point me to such products. I had a look at edora one but can not seem to find a download to test it.

Kind Regards.