Activities launching external applications?

[camino]

Hi,

I'm using jBPM 3.1 with Tomcat 5.5 and Oracle 9i since few weeks.
I want to use jBPM as a solution for migrating a Lotus Notes application (with complex forms).

My problem is that, for now, jBPM doesn't support complex forms.

So I'm wondering if I could use activities or tasks to launch external applications such as IE to load a jsp file which would contain a complex form. This jsp would also include a submit button which would call a servlet in order to store context variables to jBPM database and send signal to continue process instance execution.

Is it a good idea? or does it exist another better solution to resolve this problem?

Thx for your advices...

[hosierdm]

You could just put these JSP pages into a cohesive web application, then use your servlet idea to set process variables and signal the process. I don't see why you would need to have the process spawn browsers and stuff. We have a project right now that does just this. For user input, we have pages that get submitted to a servlet where I take all the params from the page and map them to process variables, then I signal the process.