fork issues

[sforema]

It appears from the FAQ that forks are not asychronous (scratches head). I am a bit baffled by this. Worse, my fork is not running running both branches.

I am not running in a managed environment, such as jBoss, so sending messages around isn't going to work (I believe), and doing work outside the workflow engine doesn't make sense to me. I had always assumed that when a fork was encountered, that a thread was created for each branch...

Here is my process.xml:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<process-definition name="simple">



<start-state name="start">







</start-state>






<end-state name="end">



</end-state>

























</process-definition>

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I have a base class that each of the action extend that essentially do this:
context.leaveNode();

This should move the process along quite nicely. What is happening is that parallel2 is not firing at all. And if I do eventually get it to fire, I am afraid that it isn't going to run asychronously.

I am struggling to make jBPM work for me. First I had to create a solution that persists state at every juncture (done). Now this little bugger.

(help)

[sforema]

Um... that XML wasn't very happy in this post... sorry about that (should have do a preview)

Let me try again...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<process-definition name="simple">
 <swimlane name="swimlane1">
 <assignment class=""></assignment>
 </swimlane>
 <start-state name="start">
 <task>
 <controller>
 <variable name="color" />
 <variable name="size" />
 </controller>
 </task>
 <transition name="to_state" to="first"></transition>
 </start-state>
 <state name="first">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action name="node_enter" class="com.cms.workflow.sample_simple.Step1"></action>
 </event>
 <transition name="tr1" to="fork1"></transition>
 </state>
 <end-state name="end">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action name="action1" class="com.cms.workflow.sample_simple.End"></action>
 </event>
 </end-state>
 <fork name="fork1">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action name="action1" class="com.cms.workflow.sample_simple.Fork"></action>
 </event>
 <transition name="tr1" to="parallel1"></transition>
 <transition name="tr2" to="parallel2"></transition>
 </fork>
 <state name="parallel1">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action name="action1" class="com.cms.workflow.sample_simple.Parallel1"></action>
 </event>
 <transition name="tr1" to="join1"></transition>
 </state>
 <state name="parallel2">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action name="action1" class="com.cms.workflow.sample_simple.Parallel2"></action>
 </event>
 <transition name="tr1" to="join1"></transition>
 </state>
 <join name="join1">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action name="action1" class="com.cms.workflow.sample_simple.Join"></action>
 </event>
 <transition name="tr1" to="end"></transition>
 </join>
</process-definition>

[kukeltje]

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