How to manage a workflow of document

[caballus]

Hello,

we are evaluating jbpm as workflow engine and we need to know whether there is a way in jbpm to pass document (such as word document, zip files, etc.) between tasks instead of simple variables. That is each actor in the process should be able to download and upload files.

Please give us any useful information cause we need to come to an answer within two days.

Thank you.

[kukeltje]

you can pass any java object you want..... see jbpm.varmapping.xml and jbpm.converter.properties

[kukeltje]

and, afaik (never tried it, nor eager to look it up) using a bytearray for storing the document/zipfile would automagically work

[caballus]

Ok, so we have to do the thing by hand creating proper java classes that wrap the document, if i understand well.
Thanks.

[gscheibel]

Why you don't use a Blob field in your database and put the id of this record in a process variable? It's much more ease.

[kukeltje]

that is an option to.