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activiti engine configuration question

jeff1 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:42:38 GMT

hi, all today I run a testcase and find that the activiti engine is built with the resource 'activiti.properties', besides inside the engine-module, I can still find the jbpm4-like(something like wire, binding…) config-file such as 'activiti.cfg.defaults.xml' etc., but the relevant code of wire/b

Re: activiti engine configuration question

jbarrez — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:10:15 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Indeed the current way to go is with the properties file.
Tom is currently refactoring a lot in the pvm, and I'm sure he will remove the old config files.

The idea for this move it to make it easier for using Activiti within real application that use for example a dependency injection container,
where the container will not need the properties to configure the engine.

Re: activiti engine configuration question

jeff1 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:04:17 GMT

thanks for your response, Joram
did you mean that depending on the different application environments, activiti would set up the engine in different ways with different configuration? e.g. using spring? jbossmc? or guice?

Re: activiti engine configuration question

jbarrez — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:13:50 GMT

Yes, exactly. For example in Spring, the engine would simply be configured as a bean, setting the various properties in the typical Spring way. This also means that you can inject a Springified datasource, transactionManager, etc.