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Configure Alfresco with existing jBPM

sebauy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:53:20 GMT

Hi, I'm going to install Alfresco on a jboss server that already has JBoss jBPM engine installed.How can I configure Alfresco to integrate with the existing bpm engine? and Would I loose any workflow functionality by doing this?Thanks, for any helpBye,seba

Re: Configure Alfresco with existing jBPM

mrogers — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:14:31 GMT

I may be wrong but I think you are going to have problems with this.

It will be possible to have Alfresco's JBPM instance working alongside Jboss's JBPM instance. And it must be possible to get multiple workflow engines to co-operate. But I don't think you will easily "point" alfresco to use another instance of a workflow engine, the JBPM tables are in the alfresco schema.

The easiest solution would be to not use the instance of JBPM built into JBoss but only use Alfresco's instance, will that fly?

Re: Configure Alfresco with existing jBPM

sebauy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:53:12 GMT

I may be wrong but I think you are going to have problems with this.

It will be possible to have Alfresco's JBPM instance working alongside Jboss's JBPM instance. And it must be possible to get multiple workflow engines to co-operate. But I don't think you will easily "point" alfresco to use another instance of a workflow engine, the JBPM tables are in the alfresco schema.

The easiest solution would be to not use the instance of JBPM built into JBoss but only use Alfresco's instance, will that fly?

mrogers thank's for your reply.
I know using the embedded jBPM engine would be the easier solution, but at work they asked me to investigate if this would be possible.
I was thinking, since I'm not going to use My Sql , I could solve the database schema problem through the use of synonyms. Do you think this could solve my problem or do I still need to reimplement a bunch of code?
I also need to know if by doing this I'd would loose workflow functionality? this can be a dealbreaker for the change and would make my work easier

Thanks again for your help.
seba.-