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Async process start

alexbt — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:25:26 GMT

Hello Activiti Team,My question is about asynchronous process start.As far as I understand the Activiti API the only way to start a process instance is by calling eitherRuntimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey(…) or RuntimeService.startProcessInstanceById(…)But those methods run in a synchronous man

Re: Async process start

trademak — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:25:56 GMT

Hi,

No you are right. What you can do is use the async attribute on the first task.
So then the process will be started, and the start event will be processed and the first sequence flow will be taken. But when the first task needs to be processed, it will do it asynchronously.
So you get the process instance back from the startProcessInstanceByKey method before the process engine will execute the first task.

Best regards,

Re: Async process start

alexbt — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:18:25 GMT

Tijs,

Thanks you very much for the fast reply.
BTW, your book is a great help for me. Looking forward to reading the unpublished chapters 😉

Alex