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Calling web services from Activiti

dgag8090 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:28:54 GMT

Read through the user guide, searched here for similar things.A few questions perhaps someone could shed some light on.I see in the user guide that Web Service Task is marked as experimental.If I need to call different external web services (REST and WSDL) from Activiti workflows:Am I creating Servi

Re: Calling web services from Activiti

frederikherema1 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:08:17 GMT

You can use the built-in web service approach that activiti has. It's marked as experimental but all features are there to call web-services (it uses CXF).

Offcourse, it's possible to implement a service-task that calls a web service using your own technology. One that is capable of sending REST-requests, you'll have to write anyway, that's not out of the box for now…

Re: Calling web services from Activiti

jbarrez — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:13:48 GMT

BPMN has an official way to do webservices, which is implemented in Activiti but not tested enough (hence the 'experimental' mark.
That being said, I think that this way is too cumbersome and requires to much ugly xml to get working.

I personally favorite doing it in your own service task. Spring has easy ways to wrap webservice calls in simple pojo's for example.