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Using Mule task to send messages from Activiti to Mule

annayudkovsky — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:17:50 GMT

Hello,In our project we are using Activiti 5.11 and Mule ESB 3.0. Both are running in separate JVMs.We are trying to figure out communication piece right now.As I understand from reading documentation and “Activiti in Action” book in the standalone setup (separate JVMs)- Mule ESB communicates with

Re: Using Mule task to send messages from Activiti to Mule

jbarrez — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:39:28 GMT

<blockcode>Is it correct to assume that activity-type = “mule” for the sendTask in the example above is only relevant for embedded configurations when Activiti and Mule are in the same JVM?</blockcode>

Yes, indeed. If you want to communicate using HTTP/webservices you need the 'regular' tasks for that not the mule task.

Re: Using Mule task to send messages from Activiti to Mule

annayudkovsky — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:20:26 GMT

Thanks, Joram.

I just wanted to confirm that.

Anna Y.

Re: Using Mule task to send messages from Activiti to Mule

bogdan_aioanei — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:57:11 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm trying to get a working example up and running under the same scenario (activiti and mule running on different JVMs).

You can have a look at my BPMN process in the helloMule file attached.

and at one point from my application I'm calling:

Map<String, Object> variableMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
variableMap.put("var1", "hello");
variableMap.put("anotherVar", "aloha");
runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("helloWorldMule", variableMap);

but I get an exception org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: Failed to read response value

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong in my BPMN process or if the Mule flow is doing something wrong.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.