activiti 5.8 requires Spring 3.0

[heymjo]

Hi,

We were a bit surprised (and disappointed) to see that Spring 3.0 has now become a requirement for the activiti-spring bridge. At first i was hoping that a quick patch would be able to restore backwards compatibility but this turned out not the case. Any chance of restoring 2.5.x compatibility ?

Thanks
Jorg

[heymjo]

Correction: it has been required since at least 5.6, it was maven that managed to confuse us.

Still the question remains: will the activiti-spring bridge be backported to spring 2.5 ? From what i can see most of the 3.0 mechanisms should have 2.5.x equivalents. Not sure about the ProcessScope, that one might be different.

[trademak]

Hi,

Right, the Activiti Spring module depends on Spring 3.x
We don't plan to support backwards compatibility with 2.5.x

Best regards,

[abentan]

Hi, I'm a newcomer to Activiti and to BPMN 2.0. I've never used a BPM engine before, but, taking account several problems in my current proyect, I decided to include it. I have an old proyect, in Spring 2.5, (before 2.0) and I can't upgrade it. First I thought, even not to use Activiti, after that I tried to use Activiti without Spring, and finally I found 'something', that to me have worked very well, I least until now. It does commits, and even rollbacks without problems. This is my simple bridge:


<code lang="java">
/* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
*      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/

package com.abentan.activiti.spring;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

/**
* Wrapper for Spring 2.5
*
* @author abentan
*/
public class SpringProcessEngineConfiguration extends org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration
{

private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(SpringProcessEngineConfiguration.class);

/**
  * Added for compatibility with Spring 2.5.
  *
  * @author abentan
  */
public void setDatabaseTypeS25(String databaseType)
{
  setDatabaseType(databaseType);
}

/**
  * Added for compatibility with Spring 2.5.
  *
  * @author abentan
  */
public void setDatabaseSchemaUpdateS25(String databaseSchemaUpdate)
{
  setDatabaseSchemaUpdate(databaseSchemaUpdate);
}

/**
  * Added for compatibility with Spring 2.5.
  *
  * @author abentan
  */
public void setJobExecutorActivateS25(boolean jobExecutorActivate)
{
  setJobExecutorActivate(jobExecutorActivate);
}

/**
  * Added for compatibility with Spring 2.5.
  *
  * @author abentan
  * @param dataSource
  */
public void setDataSourceS25(DataSource dataSource)
{
  setDataSource(dataSource);
}

}
</code>


And these are my defined beans:

<code>
  <bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="com.abentan.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration">
    <property name="dataSourceS25" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
    <property name="databaseTypeS25" value="mysql" />
    <property name="databaseSchemaUpdateS25" value="true" />
    <property name="jobExecutorActivateS25" value="true" />
    <property name="deploymentResources" value="classpath*:/*.bpmn" />
  </bean>
 
  <bean id="processEngine" class="org.activiti.spring.ProcessEngineFactoryBean">
    <property name="processEngineConfiguration" ref="processEngineConfiguration" />
  </bean>
</code>


Regards
Alejandro

[frederikherema1]

Thanks for sharing this!