How to run the activiti source code?

[balaji1]

Hi,

1. We have checked out the source code from SVN and installed in SVN.
Can you please tell us how to build this source code?

ALso what will be the outcome of this process?

2. We have proposed to use activiti plugin for our porject. We need to customise the palette shapes and XML tags. Can you please tell us the process to perform.


Please help us to resolve to above issues. We are badly stuck up here.

[tiesebarrell]

Well, I use a different Eclipse (without Activiti Designer installed in it) to develop palette shaped that to test them. Whether you launch from that Eclipse or install a separate one, or, as you both have done now, install Activiti Designer in your development Eclipse, should all really make no difference. The problem you guys are having with differences between Eclipse installations probably have to do with either the Maven setup or the dependencies with projects you have opened for customizing Activiti Designer projects. Hard to tell from here. If you have a stacktrace or something, it may be easier to tell why one works and the other doesn't.

[balaji1]

Tiese,
Well Now I am able to view the new node from the older eclipse itself .

Actually I have added below snippet to add one more menu and export to my own format. But though I click new menu  control goes to BPMN export marshaller rather Acme marshaller.

    ContextMenuEntry subMenuExport = new ContextMenuEntry(new SaveBpmnModelFeature(getFeatureProvider()), context);
    subMenuExport.setText("Export to BPMN 2.0 XML"); //$NON-NLS-1$
    subMenuExport.setSubmenu(false);
   
     ContextMenuEntry subMenuExport1 = new ContextMenuEntry(new SaveAcmeModelFeature(getFeatureProvider()), context);
    subMenuExport1.setText("Export to My XML"); //$NON-NLS-1$
    subMenuExport1.setSubmenu(false);


THanks

[tiesebarrell]

What's in the SaveAcmeModelFeature?

[balaji1]

Tiese,

final ExportMarshallerRunnable runnable = new ExportMarshallerRunnable(getDiagram(),"MyMarshallname");

Rite?

[tiesebarrell]

Debug the run() method of the ExportMarshallerRunnable class to figure out which ExportMarshaller it resolves based on that name ("MyMarshallname")

[balaji1]

Tiese,

    public void run() throws Exception {
        exportMarshaller.marshallDiagram(diagram, monitor);
      }
BPMN Marshaller.

[tiesebarrell]

You can see from the code in the constructor of ExportMarshallerRunnable that it performs a lookup to set its ExportMarshaller. Check what the runtime instance of that is. If it's not your marshaller, you didn't register it correctly.

[balaji1]

Tiese,
Please reply back the below questions with full details  when u r free.

1. Can you please tell what changes exactly needs to be done?
   Its not showing my marshaller name.

2. I want to make few changes to manual tasks,probably to rename/add a new property to it.
Please list down the sequence of steps.

THanks

[balaji1]

Tiese,

Could you please respond back to above questions.

tHanks

[tiesebarrell]

Balaji,

1) You're not being very specific. What have you tried, what results did you expect and which results/errors did you get?

2) I've already answered that question; please look at earlier responses for the steps.