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Access from multiple applications

louisparks — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:41:37 GMT

Hi, I am seeking advice for how to best setup activi in our applicaition. I have serveral web applications from which I would like to start activities and get task lists. I assume it would be bad to have multiple process engines running against the same database. Should I setup activiti to run in

Re: Access from multiple applications

frederikherema1 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:01:31 GMT

You could have multiple engines running on the same DB, but make sure to have only one job-executor running to prevent many optimistic locking exception when executing jobs.

There is a Java API than offers all functionalities toward the engine. The REST-api only offers basic functionality (not full API is covered by that). So it depends on how much you need to use… Whould make sense to centralize your activiti-engine and access it via activiti REST, or perhaps writing your own API (eg. Restlet) on top op the activiti API to offer specific methods to your apps.

Re: Access from multiple applications

louisparks — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:19:35 GMT

Hi, Thank you for your response! I thought I had setup notifications of when someone responds. As long as I can have multiple engines on the same database it should meet my goals very well for now. I understand about only running one activiti monitor. that makes sense.

thanks!