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Activiti 5.22. Should I be able to access a different process engine from within an execution or event listener.

pault — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:51:34 GMT

I am currently moving some code from 5.0 to 5.22 on its way to 6 then 7. I use execution/event listeners and these sometimes need to interact with a process engine other than the one which is creating the events.I can find the engine I want with ProceesEngines.getProcessEngine(), and i can also get

Re: Activiti 5.22. Should I be able to access a different process engine from within an execution or event listener.

pault — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:51:44 GMT

On checking my old notes, using the API from within a listener was noted as 'not advised' - as it had not been fully tested. Looks like that is still the case, but now different things don't work as expected.

Moving my stuff to it's own thread sorts it out, and I needed to do that ultimately anyway. So will mark this as answered.