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Using Domain Objects in the Process

j_p_ryan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:30:30 GMT

Hi I have an “Investigate Customer” process where flows in the business process use information from the Customer domain object to make decisions as to the path the process should follow e.g. amount owed, country region, manual or electronic etc. This customer object is a pre-existing and very co

Re: Using Domain Objects in the Process

ronald_van_kuij — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:25:14 GMT

There is no wrong or one right way to do this. For JPA entities Activiti has a 'solution' where only the id is stored in activiti and the entity is loaded via the entitimanager it belongs to. In other cases you can mimic this by also storing the id (and maybe the class type) and having an el resolver that does the actual work, or load things in a base class of a service (which gets the id from a process variable)

But storing only those parts in the engine that are relevant often works very wel. So it is up to you

Just some random thoughts

Re: Using Domain Objects in the Process

j_p_ryan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:44:06 GMT

Thanks Ronald,

… For JPA entities Activiti has a 'solution' where only the id is stored in activiti and the entity is loaded via the entitimanager it belongs to.

Any idea where I can find an example of how this is done?

Thanks,
James

Re: Using Domain Objects in the Process

ronald_van_kuij — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:44:31 GMT

Would you be surprised if I said, read the fine manual? Oh and full examples are….. in the activiti examples…

Re: Using Domain Objects in the Process

j_p_ryan — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:55:37 GMT

Hi Ronald,

Yea I know…lazy person here spotted that 10 minutes after putting up the post. Bit of a RTFM fault you might say.

Sorry forgot to update post and thanks again for the help,
James

Re: Using Domain Objects in the Process

ronald_van_kuij — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:33:26 GMT