topic Re: bundling Designer Extension with Designer? in Alfresco Archive

bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

m2spring — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:40:10 GMT

How can I bundle my designer extension with Designer so that my users don't need to install the extension separately by going through the User Libraries hoops?(http://www.activiti.org/userguide/index.html#eclipseDesignerApplyingExtension)Thanks!-Max

Re: bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

trademak — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:47:05 GMT

Hi,

You could change the Designer source code for that to make it as easy as possible for your users.
Then you can just add your extension to the standard palette.
If you want to use the designer extension mechanism I can't think of a solution where the user doesn't have to do anything.

Best regards,

Re: bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

m2spring — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:32:04 GMT

I'm thinking of adding an extension point to plugin org.activiti.designer.util to allow other plugins to contribute a Designer Extension directly.
In class o.a.d.util.extension.ExtensionUtil I would add logic to method getCustomServiceTasksContexts() to honor that extension point by calling each extension point contributor which would then return one or more CustomServiceTask objects.

With this extension point in place, I can encapsulate my Designer extension in an Eclipse plugin and no longer need to make it available through the project's classpath.

Does this sound like a reasonable approach?

-Max

Re: bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

trademak — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:59:08 GMT

Hi Max,

Yes that sounds like a solution. Would you be able to create a patch for this?

Best regards,

Re: bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

ronald_van_kuij — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:14:37 GMT

That would certainly be interesting functionality…

Re: bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

m2spring — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:54:55 GMT

Hi Tijs,
yes, I'm working on a fix and I'll be providing you a patch.
How would you like me to provide you the patch?
-Max

Hi Max,

Yes that sounds like a solution. Would you be able to create a patch for this?

Best regards,

Re: bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

m2spring — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:36:52 GMT

Hi Tijs,

I've got the patch ready:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkow-plugin/blob/master/activiti-patch/src/main/resources/activiti-designer-jenkow.diff

Can you please apply it?
Thanks a lot!
-Max

Hi Max,

Yes that sounds like a solution. Would you be able to create a patch for this?

Best regards,