Migration 2.1 to 3.3 workflow problem

joko71 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:44:11 GMT

We're currently in the middle of migration from Alf 2.1 to 3.3 version and we stumbled on a problem regarding workflows. We're unable to migrate our 2.1 custom workflows to 3.3 version because we get this interesting error. I've searched through the net about this error and found out that we're the

Re: Migration 2.1 to 3.3 workflow problem

joko71 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:41:43 GMT

Hi there, it' me again…

I tried to play with xml context file which invokes workflow model and that gave me a new error in server log… no longer 124 or 125 code workflow deployment error, now I get 201 or 202:

2011-03-02 09:35:41,111 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: 02020000 Workflow deployment failed
   at org.alfresco.repo.workflow.WorkflowDeployer.init(WorkflowDeployer.java:330)
   at org.alfresco.repo.workflow.WorkflowDeployer$1.doWork(WorkflowDeployer.java:437)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:508)
   at org.alfresco.repo.workflow.WorkflowDeployer.onBootstrap(WorkflowDeployer.java:433)
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here's my current context:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>
    <!– Registration of new models –>
    <bean id="xyz.workflowBootstrap" parent="workflowDeployer">
   <property name="workflowDefinitions">
      <list>
         <props>
            <prop key="engineId">jbpm</prop>
            <prop key="location">alfresco/extension/workflows/uvidAkta/processdefinition.xml</prop>
            <prop key="mimetype">text/xml</prop>
            <prop key="redeploy">true</prop>
         </props>
…
      </list>
   </property>

        <property name="labels">
                <list>
                <value>alfresco.extension.xyzWorkflow</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="models">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/model/xyzWorkflowModel.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>    
</beans>
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Re: Migration 2.1 to 3.3 workflow problem

mrogers — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:35:16 GMT

Your process definition may be more useful. And do have your process definitions etc in the right place?

Re: Migration 2.1 to 3.3 workflow problem

joko71 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:46:39 GMT

I've found the solution.

In 2.1 version I had a bean which extended JBPM engine. It turned out that that bean needed two more properties in order to work in 3.3 version. That's why I got null pointer exception because these properties were not defined.

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