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Activiti + CDI / Transactions (Timing Issue)

joshb1 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:06:54 GMT

I am running into a problem - I'm just trying to get Activiti + CDI setup. I am so close I can taste it, but need to get over this hump. I have a very simple use case: I am starting a process, and listening using CDI events (@Observes) for certain activities to start and end. I have an activity th

Re: Activiti + CDI / Transactions (Timing Issue)

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:57:59 GMT

I don't think it is a timing issue, it is just the way things work. What you could try is make the first task async. That way things will be committed to the database at the beginning of the process.

Re: Activiti + CDI / Transactions (Timing Issue)

joshb1 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:46:13 GMT

ronald,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. As I said, I'm new to Activiti . Using asynchronous tasks did the trick (somehow I missed that part of the documentation - http://activiti.org/userguide/#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions ).