Event Handlers Vs ExecutionListener

[davanna]

I was going through the documentation and wanted to know the difference between the EventListeners and ExecutionListeners
http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#eventDispatcherListener and http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#executionListeners.

Both serve the same purpose but have different interfaces. The eventHandler has onEvent() and  isFailOnException() whereas executionListener has notify(). Any reasons of having two different artifacts here. The same applies for taskListener which has notify() method.

Thanks

[trademak]

Hi,

Execution listeners are meant to listen to a limited set of process execution actions like start, end and take. So you can add some specific logic before a service task or user task is started or ended. Event listeners allow you to listen to a large set of events that are thrown from the Activiti Engine. These events are lower level events like entity created and job executed etc.

Best regards,

[davanna]

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.