Support for MSSQL database on the roadmap?

[activiti-admin]

Hello everyone,

we are just starting to think about introducing some kind of BPM system into our web application. After looking at jBPM (and beeing confused about the future of the project), I found Activity which looks very promising. Keeping a focus on standards is very appealing.

Is there any reason for only specifying certain databases? We would need support for MS SQL Server. I guess your will be using some kind of O/R Mapper (Hibernate?, JPA?), or will there be some database specific functionality?

Another question about the modeler: Will there be support for other activities than the "blank" task, e.g. userTask, scriptTask in the modeler? I could not find something about that on the roadmap.

Thanks,

Tobias

[sebastian_s]

Hello thilka,

have you thought about contributing support for MSSQL yourself? Maybe we could even join forces on this.
The more supported DBMS's the merrier.

Regards
Sebastian

[tombaeyens]

we will provide multi-db support in one of the next releases.  in fact, if i wouldn't be answering forum questions, then i'ld be coding the QA/CI for multi db support 😉

[thilka]

Yes, we will think about supporting the activity framework on this issue. I was just wondering how the integration with other O/R Mapping Frameworks will take place. We are thinking about using Hibernate or JPA as persistence solution for our new application.
Will there be some kind of integration guide for such a scenario?

Tobias