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Alfresco workflow(jbpm engine)

onizuka82 — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:43:28 GMT

HiI am a newbie. I am currently doing my final year project on workflow system in sponsored based company. I have found that Alfresco 1.4 version has jBPM engine embedded. I am wondering wether the workflow engine is limited for the usage of Alfresco(only for moving document,check in, check out and

Re: Alfresco workflow(jbpm engine)

davidc — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:59:27 GMT

It really depends on what you want to do in your workflow.

All of jBPM's functionality is available within the Alfresco server. However, we've added a fair amount to integrate it tightly with the Alfresco repository and web-client allowing content-oriented workflows to be developed.

Mind you, you can build whatever workflow you like - jBPM supports java plug-ins allowing the execution of any business logic.

One advantage of using Alfresco workflow is that we've tightly integrated our web-client f/w into the execution of the process. So, it's easy to develop custom UI task dialogs etc.

Re: Alfresco workflow(jbpm engine)

onizuka82 — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:29:51 GMT

Hi David

Thanks for your detailed explanation. Really appreciate it. I have installed mySQL, Tomcat. I have downloaded the source from SVN and uses ANT to build it.I am wondering whether Alfresco uses Hibernate in because jBPM uses it. As i know, JBoss AS 4.x come with Hibernate in it, i am currently using Tomcat and mySQL so do i need to install Hibernate.

Thank you in advance.

Re: Alfresco workflow(jbpm engine)

davidc — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:49:13 GMT

Hi,

Alfresco uses Hibernate and so does jBPM. As part of the integration, we've ensured that all Alfresco & jBPM persistence is tied transactionally etc. From a repo perspective, it's all one schema.

So, you need Hibernate. It's already part of the SVN checkout.

You might want to try the SDK too - it has everything pre-built etc.

Dave

Re: Alfresco workflow(jbpm engine)

onizuka82 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:46:38 GMT

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your explanation.

Good day