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Engine abstraction for simulation engine

gromar — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:07:24 GMT

Activiti is able to emulate its work (http://gro-mar.github.com/activiti-crystalball/). I would like to implement simulation engine to simulate BPM platform (WF engine, users, events…). I would like to take similar approach as was used for activiti. AFAIK Activiti does not support implementation of

Re: Engine abstraction for simulation engine

frederikherema1 — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:00:35 GMT

1. That's up to you and what you requirements are, I'm afraid.
2. You're free to alter the engine code, we have an Apache 2.0 license. You can even make a coffee-machine out of it with some imagination. Offcourse, any usage of internal non-API classes can result in forward-incompatibility with future version of the engine source-code on your side.
3. There are currently no plans for supporting simulation in the engine itself.

Re: Engine abstraction for simulation engine

gromar — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:58:48 GMT

Thank you for answer.
It is possible. I am able to answer some of my questions now.

1. How to use core activiti engine classes to implement simulation engine?

https://github.com/gro-mar/activiti-crystalball/commit/3c2faacd534a8aa91ccec2a825c04e09b09b8bc2

2. Currently I am copying and changing ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl and engine core to be able to run simulation scenario. What should be problem there?

I did not meet any problem. (only challenges 🙂 )