Autostart process on JBoss start

[candersen]

Hello,

is there a way to start a process automatically right after the start of the JBossAS? I am using jBPM 3.2.2 on a JBoss 4.2.0GA and deployed my process using the deployer of the jbpm-console.

Regards

Claus

[kukeltje]

Yes, use e.g. startupservlet or something like that.

[candersen]

Hello,

thanks for the answer, it works, but not to the extent I like it to work. I wrote a class that should start my process, it looks like this:

package myPackage.process;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.Servlet;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;

import org.jbpm.JbpmConfiguration;
import org.jbpm.JbpmContext;

public class ProzessStarter implements Servlet {

 public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {

 JbpmConfiguration jc = JbpmConfiguration.getInstance();
 JbpmContext jcx = jc.createJbpmContext();
 jc.startJobExecutor();
 jcx.newProcessInstance("MyProcess").signal();
 }

 public void destroy() {
 }

 public ServletConfig getServletConfig() {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 return null;
 }

 public String getServletInfo() {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 return null;
 }

 public void service(ServletRequest arg0, ServletResponse arg1)
 throws ServletException, IOException {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub

 }
}

I added the servlet to the web.xml of the jbpm-console.war:

<servlet>
 <servlet-name>ZKSStartupServlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>dev.zksabfall.service.prozess.ProzessStarter</ servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

It starts the process on startup of the server, but I have a timer in the first state the process goes into. The problem is now: The timer isn't fired, the process waits in the state.

Am I missing something in the code of the servlet?

[candersen]

Sorry, the code in the web.xml looks like this:

<servlet>
 <servlet-name>StartupServlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>myPackage.process</servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

[candersen]

And sorry again, now it is correct:

<servlet>
 <servlet-name>StartupServlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>myPackage.process.ProzessStarter</servlet-class>
 <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

[candersen]

I found a "solution". When I add

jcx.close

after signalling the process, it works.

Is this the correct way to do this?

Regards

Claus

[kukeltje]

according to the docs it is...