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soap-http-connector for Activiti Designer

b_schnarr — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:43:51 GMT

Hello at all,one of the most important tasks of a BPM engine is the orchestration of SOAP web services. Currently, this can be done using a Java Service Task and Apache CXF. But nevertheless, this requires deeping into Java coding. The alternative, the Web Service Task, requires writing plain XML. B

Re: soap-http-connector for Activiti Designer

b_schnarr — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:58:13 GMT

The same is true for rest: https://github.com/camunda/camunda-bpm-examples/tree/master/servicetask/rest-service

Those two extensions would simplify the consumption of web services a lot.

Re: soap-http-connector for Activiti Designer

trademak — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:00:29 GMT

Hi Ben,

I agree that there's a lot of room for improvement in this area.
Just copying what another engine has implemented is however not our approach.
There are some good things in there, so it's definitely something we can work on.
Would you be willing to invest development time in this as well?
When you were referring to the Activiti BPM suite, were you referring to the commercial offering or the open source project?
In the commercial offering we do have support for consuming REST services in some places already.

Best regards,

Re: soap-http-connector for Activiti Designer

b_schnarr — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:36:52 GMT

Hi Tijs,
I refer to the open source project. Are there already plans to improve the current consuming functionalities of web services? Especially the consumption of SOAP services needs to be improved in terms of a non-coding solution.
If there is already some code for rest services in the commercial offering, is there a chance that this finds the way in the open source project?

Best regards
Ben

Re: soap-http-connector for Activiti Designer

trademak — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:10:59 GMT

Hi Ben,

Ok. Yes we want to improve the SOAP support, but we do need the community to make this happen together with the Activiti core developers. So we would be looking for people that want to invest time in designing the implementation together with us and also doing development work.

The REST support code in the commercial offering will find its way to the open source project, but we have not yet determined when and how.

Best regards,