Activiti applications

[jhani_debruin]

Hi,

We are very new to Activiti and was instructed to use Activiti to create customized processes and manage user access to specific processes. The idea is that you have a specific user using an Android application, this application should make a call to Activiti to start a process. This process will then communicate with already existing web services in our cloud to perform certain actions.

My question: Is this what Activiti was designed for or is it even possible? And if so, is there any detailed documentation to assist us in implementing it?

Thank you in advance!

[ronald_van_kuij]

1: yes
2: yes

[jhani_debruin]

Thanks Ronald, now we know we are using the right tool   
I am looking for some documentation to know how to make a rest call (from the android side) that will initiate a process and then talk to the already existing backend and handle the reply on the Android side. This is pretty specific, but any help in this department?

thank you,
Jhani

[trademak]

Hi Jhani,

The user guide contains a whole chapter about the available REST services.
Yes it's possible to initiate a process using the Activiti REST API. The client side of calling the REST service (in Android) is something you would need to implement yourself.
For next releases we are however thinking of creating Activiti client API modules to make this easier.

Best regards,