topic Start process is a blocking call? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/start-process-is-a-blocking-call/m-p/139940#M98046 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>i'm playing with the rest api.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>i'm trying to start the process calling </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><A href="http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/process-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/process-instance</A><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My process is a task that i extended that should do the polling, so keeps going on and on.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>i noticed that the rest call for starting the process basically blocks because the first task is on going, so the start action does not return anything.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>is this normal? does not sound strange? what should i do?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:28:59 GMT esseti 2013-06-08T08:28:59Z Start process is a blocking call? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/start-process-is-a-blocking-call/m-p/139940#M98046 Hi all.i'm playing with the rest api.i'm trying to start the process calling http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/process-instance‍.My process is a task that i extended that should do the polling, so keeps going on and on.i noticed that the rest call for starting the process basically blocks Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:28:59 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/start-process-is-a-blocking-call/m-p/139940#M98046 esseti 2013-06-08T08:28:59Z Re: Start process is a blocking call? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/start-process-is-a-blocking-call/m-p/139941#M98047 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ok, is solved it.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>for those who are interested do this:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- set your task as asyncronous or via ui, or place this </SPAN><CODE>activiti:async="true"</CODE><SPAN> in the task definiton.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- enable the jobprocessing for the rest apis, it is disbled by default (while in the explorer it's enabled). so go to </SPAN><CODE> /activiti-rest/WEB-INF/classes/activiti-context.xml</CODE><SPAN> set this as true </SPAN><CODE>&lt;property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="true" /&gt; </CODE></BODY></HTML> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:35:57 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/start-process-is-a-blocking-call/m-p/139941#M98047 esseti 2013-06-08T13:35:57Z