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Activiti support for 'signal event type' and 'service task'?

kevin1 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:13:08 GMT

Hello,I am very curious about the Activiti releases as we - as a research institute - want to use it in one of our student projects. But I have some questions about the support of Activiti for some standard BPMN 2.0 elements that would be very important for us:1. Signal event type: event thrown from

Re: Activiti support for 'signal event type' and 'service task'?

jbarrez — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:30:07 GMT

Hi Kevin,

The signal event type is not planned for a close release. My take is that it will probably be implemented after the November release.

The webservice call is planned for the November release. You should be seeing traces if it in the coming weeks.

A webservice invocation should easily be implemented as a custom Java service task.
The signal is a bit more difficult, but still possible, involving also a custom java class and a queue + listener. The only downside of that, is that it wouldn't be shown in the diagram as the specific event type, but as a regular task.

Re: Activiti support for 'signal event type' and 'service task'?

kevin1 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:55:28 GMT

Thanks a lot for yor quick answer! This sounds very good for our student project…

Best,
Kevin