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WorkflowService and deployDefinition()

kma — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:27:52 GMT

Hi,On the WorkflowService there are a method called deployDefinition().As far as I understand this method can be used to deploy a workflow at runtime. When the server is restarted I need to redeploy the previousdeployed workflow, how can that be done, is there a possibility to invoke code during se

Re: WorkflowService and deployDefinition()

seshu — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:31:44 GMT

You can definitely do that. In your context file that deploys workflows add this <prop key="redeploy">true</prop>

Re: WorkflowService and deployDefinition()

davidc — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:42:58 GMT

A workflow definition only needs to be deployed once. When deployed, it remains deployed, even after shutdown and restart.

A workflow definition only needs to be redeployed when the workflow definition has changed. Re-deploying a workflow definition creates a new version of it in Alfresco. The previous definition remains for in-flight workflows depending on it.

If you change <redeploy> to true, this will re-deploy the workflow definition on every startup of Alfresco, even if the workflow definition has not changed. It should only be done when testing, and not for production systems. Remember, a new version is created on each redeploy.