topic Re: (very) long lasting processes in Alfresco Archive

(very) long lasting processes

heymjo — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:24:09 GMT

Hi,We have business processes implementing important legal procedures that can take more than a year (or several years) to complete. Say we start such process instance today using Activiti 5.5, and we need to upgrade to Activiti 7 in two years from now, in what way could this upgrade impact the runn

Re: (very) long lasting processes

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:04:17 GMT

Regarding 4:

Activiti tries to implement the execution semantics of BPMN 2.0, but bugs might slip in and if you (by accident) (ab)use such a bug, you might have a problem. Besides that, I think that there still might be some issues but not more or less than with other engines.

Re: (very) long lasting processes

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:07:27 GMT

Oh and if you made 'unit tests' for your processes, you can find issues regarding 4 as well in a test env.

Re: (very) long lasting processes

heymjo — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:17:47 GMT

OK I conclude then that having a unit test exercising the full workflow path is crucial for projects of this nature. Not really different from the integration with any other library, as you say.

Thanks for your feedback !

Jorg

Re: (very) long lasting processes

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:25:27 GMT

OK I conclude then that having a unit test exercising the full workflow path is crucial for projects of this nature. Not really different from the integration with any other library, as you say./quote]

Correct, only the 'execution' of things in the library are specified in xml now, not in java 🙂