Starting an Activiti workflow programatically in Java

mmarinovich — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:08:06 GMT

Hi folks,Firstly - sorry, I've just started developing with Alfresco so this might be a dopey question…I'm trying to start a custom Activiti workflow from within a custom action. In order to start the workflow I need to use a WorkflowService instance. In order to get a WorkflowService instance I n

Re: Starting an Activiti workflow programatically in Java

mmarinovich — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:31:00 GMT

Ok - I have answered my own question now. Basically the way to get hold of the services you need is to inject them using Spring (no, I'm not a Spring developer so this is all learning curve).

So, in your action class you need to create a property variable and setter method like this:


   private WorkflowService workflowService;

   public void setWorkflowService(WorkflowService workflowService) 
   {
      this.workflowService = workflowService;
   }
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Then in the action bean configuration you need to tell spring to inject an instance of the workflow service, like this:


   <bean id="initialiseAssignment" class="za.edu.icg.alfrescoapc.action.InitialiseAssignment" parent="action-executer">
      <property name="nodeService">
        <ref bean="NodeService" />
      </property>
      <property name="workflowService">
        <ref bean="WorkflowService" />
      </property>
   </bean>
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…time to find a good book on Spring…

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