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Web service wrapper on Activiti

hardik_thakkar1 — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:11:33 GMT

Hello there,We have decided to use Activiti as workflow tool in our new project. Application is in design phase right now. I need some things to clarify here.1) We have decided to develop our own Wrapper (REST-Web service) which would give users customize operations. Is this feasible to write our ow

Re: Web service wrapper on Activiti

jbarrez — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:08:30 GMT

1) Sure this is possible. Not hard to do, as Activiti is a regular java library. Nothing that comes in mind that is particulary exotic.

2) It is always slightly 'behind' the Java API. Some api's will not be done as deep as the java part (for time reasons)

3) No there is no concept of system workflows. You could maybe use the tenant-support for this (and use a system tenant)

4) I don't get that remark. Why would that need to be the case?

Re: Web service wrapper on Activiti

hardik_thakkar1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 03:20:32 GMT

Thanks jbarrez for your reply.

1) Is there anything to take care while writing wrapper? Or all functions are straight forward in Java API.

2) I agreed on you on this. But that is good that there is scope of extension always.

3) I think in this case, we need to think something like, maintaining some database tables or marking workflow names as per system convention.

4) In our case, we are trying to achieve that model where multiple applications will use activiti workflow. So, we are giving users some kind of abstraction so they can easily on-board their application in our system in their convention.

Re: Web service wrapper on Activiti

jbarrez — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:47:09 GMT

1) Yes.

3) Indeed. We do something similar in Alfresco

4) I see. In that case, you'd probably want to look into http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#advanced.tenancy