general architectural question activiti and webserver

[thomast]

Hi,

we have an webapplication that runs (at the moment) on an oracele weblogic server connected with an oracle database.

Now we want to implement some workflow stuff.

Whats the best way to integrate and run activiti in such an architecture.
I doubt that it is a good idea to run activiti as plain java in a kind of session bean within the webapp.
Should activiti run in a special user_project and provide access vie sessions from the actual webapp.

I did some search but search questions didn't scale well.

I don't ask for details, I think I can figure them out by myself.  I ask for the whole architecture.

Regards Thomas 

[trademak]

Hi Thomas,

The main question is if you would like to run Activiti embedded in your web application and use the Activiti Java API or if you would like to use it standalone and use the REST API to communicate with the Engine. There are pro's and con's to each setup. Do you expect other applications to use Activiti as well. Then a standalone setup would make the most sense.

Best regards,