Confused on how to implement this...

[mcabrera]

Hello. I'm new to activiti and I've reading a lot in the last few days. I have successfully deployed the activiti-explorer and activiti-app WARs (I'm testing with both activiti 5 and 6), and also a maven+spring project that uses the same DB that the explorer/app does.

I have successfully developed some processes, and was able to trigger them through a Rest Service in my maven+sring project, and then completed it through by completing the tasks in the explorer web app.

As of now, the only integration I have between the Explorer webapp and my maven+spring project is through the DB (I configured both of them to use the same one). I don't believe this is the correct integration. How am I supposed to trigger a process in the UI, and the be able to execute a Java class in my project? What part did I miss?

[mcabrera]

Maybe some way of deploying the activiti-explorer together with my project? I mean, somehow importing it into my project through maven maybe so that both my project and the explorer share the same activiti-engine?

[jbarrez]

"How am I supposed to trigger a process in the UI, and the be able to execute a Java class in my project"

Explorer is a 'final UI' meaning it is an example of how your UI could be when you integrate Activiti into your project.
Typically, people either choose to go with the explorer UI as is (well knowing it's a demo UI) or build their own UI and call the Activiti Java API as needed in their own project.