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Roadblocks while learning Activiti BPM - Help!

kunalsuri — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:59:53 GMT

Hi Guys,I am a new user to Activiti BPM ( 1 week Old) and I have got a bit lost while creating my first dummy process. I have tried to follow various tutorials that I could get my hands on but still have some issues!I come from a background where we often research on workflows, BPM and SOA technolog

Re: Roadblocks while learning Activiti BPM - Help!

jbarrez — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:01:59 GMT

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> but I got lost once I started creating a BPMN diagram

I can imagine that, if you are starting from scratch. The Activiti user Guide describes all constructs of BPMN in detail: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#_getting_started_10_minute_tutorial

> I am not sure even if we can deploy the BPMN process there?

yes you can 😉 You need to create an App with that process model and publish it.

2. I. Yes and yes
II. That's already a whole new level of complexity. I would focus on the easy process bits

Re: Roadblocks while learning Activiti BPM - Help!

kunalsuri — Wed, 13 May 2015 15:18:32 GMT

Hi Activiti Team,

Thanks for the above links it was quite useful!

I was able to successfully create and execute a Process (Manual Task based) along with usage of Forms for each task.
I made use of the Enterprise Trial version of Alfresco Activiti 1.2 and it all went quite nice.

Now, I am trying to execute a simple process having lets say 3 task wherein,
1. Manual Task A (to input some value from User)
2. Call a web service (To pass the value - SOAP based Apache CXF service having a WSDL url)
3. Manual Task B (Show the returned value to the user)

The problem is I am not able to find the right technique to integrate the Url and use the webservice.

I have following questions:

1. I am missing something in Activiti BPM where I can just give the WSDL url somewhere in the Service Task and it automatically works Or is it that for the only way for now to work with Web services is to download the BPMN file from Enterprise version, put code in it, upload it and test it?
[Context] I have used some other BPM tools like Eclipse stardust and BizAgi (trial version) and there I just give the webservice Url and it works fine. Somehow I am also trying to see how easy Activiti BPM is for non-tech people.

2. In any case could you point me to any tutorial (doc or video) that could help to create this simple process.

Thanks for your time!
Kunal.

Re: Roadblocks while learning Activiti BPM - Help!

jbarrez — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:05:25 GMT

1. No, we don't support WSDL (yet). We're focussed on REST services as this is what our current customers are using.
If you need it, it would mean writing a custom Java service task currently.

Re: Roadblocks while learning Activiti BPM - Help!

kunalsuri — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:16:28 GMT

Do you have any docs for such java service task in Activiti that you could kindly point me to ?

Re: Roadblocks while learning Activiti BPM - Help!

jbarrez — Mon, 18 May 2015 16:12:36 GMT

Sure. Just look for 'Java service task' in the docs .. http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnTask, 8.5.3. Java Service Task