what is par file? + has anyone used deploy.html in jbpm.war

[vipul.gupta]

Has anyone used deploy.html in jbpm.war to deploy a process.
It always says not a process archive to me.

Can anyone tell me how it works and whats a process archive supposed to contain.?

-Thanks
-- Vipul

[vtysh]

Use eclipse plugin to create process archive. (Deployment tab->Save Process Archive Locally)

[vipul.gupta]

I did the same but when i tried to upload this file using deploy.html page it says "not a process archive file".

[vtysh]

jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.3 has sources of the web application, and uploading servlet works fine with created by plugin archives. Here is a snip of a code:

 ZipInputStream zipInputStream = new ZipInputStream(fileItem.getInputStream());
 JbpmContext jbpmContext = JbpmContext.getCurrentJbpmContext();
 ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessDefinition.parseParZipInputStream(zipInputStream);
 log.debug("Created a processdefinition : " + processDefinition.getName() );
 jbpmContext.deployProcessDefinition(processDefinition);
 zipInputStream.close();
 return "Deployed archive " + processDefinition.getName() + " successfully";

How you should see, par file is a simple zip archive with some special structure.
In the root folder should exist

gpd.xml
processdefinition.xml
processimage.jpg

in classes folder you can put necessary classes

[kdeboer]

Ah i have the same issue!
In my case the processdefinition files are not stored in the root or the par but in classes/{processname}

I am using the latest 3.2 GA JPDL suite

Regards Karl de Boer

[kdeboer]

The error was due to renaming the simple process. If you donto start with a default simple process the par is generated correctly