jBPM + jBoss Portal

[letitbe]

Hi all,

need your expertise.

we are thinking to use jBPM inside jBoss Portal for online ordering system.

my questions are:
* How/when I should load bpm processes? I noticed jBoss Portal using bpm for its WorkFlow component and load its process definition from mBean services.

I wrote a servlet then load processdefinition.xml from WEB-INF, create its instance and send a signal to root. Is it a right way to do BPM stuffs in enterprise context?

* which jBPM version should I use? If I'm not wrong, jBoss Portal using 3.1.

any pointers to documentation, links, samples etc really appreciated.

Thanks in advance
anthony

[kukeltje]

I wrote a servlet then load processdefinition.xml from WEB-INF, create its instance and send a signal to root. Is it a right way to do BPM stuffs in enterprise context?

Sure this is an option. There are many

[qoute]* which jBPM version should I use? If I'm not wrong, jBoss Portal using 3.1.

[kukeltje]

oeps wrong quoting and no preview....

JBoss Portal 2.4 and higher use at least jBPM 3.2 I think. The latest version used jBPM 3.2.2

[letitbe]

Thanks Ronald for your input.

Do I need to include jbpm-enterprise.ear (not sure about this) and jbpm-console (we might need this for bpm administration) in my portal implementation?

I saw in old posts, some people having trouble integrated jBPM and Portal/Portlet. Is there any documentation/blog somewhere how to solve them?

again thanks in advance
Anthony

[kukeltje]

ear or war whatever you want. Keep in mind that without customization it uses a separate jBPM config then (including scheduler etc) So I'd customize it a little.

I saw in old posts, some people having trouble integrated jBPM and Portal/Portlet. Is there any documentation/blog somewhere how to solve them?

jBPM has no specific known issues with the portal or documention on how to integrate things (whatever that might be) And without knowing what the posts are (I'm not going to search) it is hard to tel

[letitbe]

Hi Ronald

From design perspective...

when we should load jbpm context? should we keep the jbpm context open or close it for each session (ie. servlet/web service session)?

and should we create one process instance for each process (ie. ordering process) or can we use singelton object or factory class?

I'm still confuse with these bpm stuff, still not sure benefits of bpm. it;s a different mindset.

thanks again
anthony

[kukeltje]

read the docs a little... context should be closed at each request....

[flagos]

I also need to integrate JBPM with Portal
can you do that???