topic Activiti, CDI and EJB problem in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197064#M150194 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>New to Activiti trying to migrate an existing solution to Activiti logic. Because of this I want to minimize the impact and reuse the same old EJBs I was using before by invoking them from Activiti's service tasks. Application server is Weblogic. What I did:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Created programmatically the process engine</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />CdiStandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration processEngineConfiguration = new CdiStandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;processEngineConfiguration.setProcessEngineName("default");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;processEngineConfiguration.setDataSourceJndiName("JDBC_xxx");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;processEngineConfiguration.setDatabaseType("oracle");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;processEngineConfiguration.setTransactionsExternallyManaged(false);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;processEngineConfiguration.setJobExecutorActivate(true);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;processEngine = processEngineConfiguration.buildProcessEngine();<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Created a test bean with one operation</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />@Stateless<BR />@LocalBean<BR />@Named<BR />public class Dummy {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; public void print() {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; System.out….<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR />}<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Created a simple definition with one service task and form properties trying to invoke the bean mentioned above</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;serviceTask id="servicetask1" name="Service Task" activiti:expression="#{dummy.print()}"&gt;&lt;/serviceTask&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Initiated the process instance</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />RuntimeService runtimeService = processEngine.getRuntimeService();<BR />runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("myProcess");<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>and I am getting nothing. Not even an exception. As if everything is ignored. And obviously System.out statement never executes. So, am I missing something here? Do I need to configure my beans somewhere else? Just to mention that code (beans, processEngine creation etc) exists in different packages.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I also tried with activiti:expression="dummy.print()", as mentioned in the guide but still no luck.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>From other tests that I made, I am sure that definition gets loaded and Activiti engine is properly configured overall.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:03:02 GMT espe 2015-08-05T17:03:02Z Activiti, CDI and EJB problem https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197064#M150194 Hello,New to Activiti trying to migrate an existing solution to Activiti logic. Because of this I want to minimize the impact and reuse the same old EJBs I was using before by invoking them from Activiti's service tasks. Application server is Weblogic. What I did:Created programmatically the process Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:03:02 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197064#M150194 espe 2015-08-05T17:03:02Z Re: Activiti, CDI and EJB problem https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197065#M150195 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>just try to use the expression like that:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;code&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>activiti:expression="#{dummy.print()}"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;/code&gt;</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:17:28 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197065#M150195 vasile_dirla 2015-08-06T12:17:28Z Re: Activiti, CDI and EJB problem https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197066#M150196 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I did but it's not working. Null pointer..</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am thinking that maybe it's because I'm not instantiating the default Spring process engine (I am using the cdi version), all the beans are not loaded properly. </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:17:42 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197066#M150196 espe 2015-08-07T13:17:42Z Re: Activiti, CDI and EJB problem https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197067#M150197 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>please create a Unit test for it and put it here for download.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:02:13 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-cdi-and-ejb-problem/m-p/197067#M150197 vasile_dirla 2015-08-07T14:02:13Z