JBPM : How to open web forms under a process flow

[anurag.yadav]

Hi,

I am new to JBPM and tried it for some time to build a sample web application based on JBPM work flow. Now as i have different web forms attached with various nodes to take user input but when i am executing the process via java code (not on jbpm-console), the whole process executed simultaneously without opening any web form....
i had searched a lot over the net but didn't found any way out to open form via jbpm process.. is there any thing else required for this...

My process definition looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<process-definition xmlns="urn:jbpm.org:jpdl-3.2" name="Appraisal">
 <swimlane name="employee">
 <assignment pooled-actors="anuragy,onkars"></assignment>
 </swimlane>
 <swimlane name="RO">
 <assignment pooled-actors="sandeepg,vinayb"></assignment>
 </swimlane>


 <start-state name="Fill Appraisal Form">
 <task name="Fill Appraisal Form">
 <assignment pooled-actors="anuragy,onkars"></assignment>
 <controller>
 <variable access="read,write" name="ecode" mapped-name="E-Code"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="empName" mapped-name="Emp-Name"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="scheduleAdherence" mapped-name="Schedule Adherence"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="quality" mapped-name="Quality"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="effort" mapped-name="Effort"></variable>
 </controller>
 </task>

 <event type="node-leave">
 <action class="com.demo.handler.FillAppraisalFormHandler"></action>
 </event>
 <transition to="Approve Appraisal Form"></transition>
 </start-state>


 <task-node name="Approve Appraisal Form">
 <task name="Approve Appraisal Form">
 <assignment pooled-actors="sandeepg,vinayb"></assignment>
 <controller>
 <variable access="read" name="ecode" mapped-name="E-Code"></variable>
 <variable access="read" name="empName" mapped-name="Emp-Name"></variable>
 <variable access="read" name="scheduleAdherence" mapped-name="Schedule Adherence"></variable>
 <variable access="read" name="quality" mapped-name="Quality"></variable>
 <variable access="read" name="effort" mapped-name="Effort"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="comment" mapped-name="Comment"></variable>
 </controller>
 </task>
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action class="com.demo.handler.GetAppraisalData"></action>
 </event>
 <transition to="End" name="Approve"></transition>
 <transition to="Update Appraisal Form" name="Reject"></transition>
 </task-node>

 <task-node name="Update Appraisal Form">
 <task name="Update Appraisal Form">
 <assignment pooled-actors="anuragy,onkars"></assignment>
 <controller>
 <variable access="read" name="ecode" mapped-name="E-Code"></variable>
 <variable access="read" name="empName" mapped-name="Emp-Name"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="scheduleAdherence" mapped-name="Schedule Adherence"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="quality" mapped-name="Quality"></variable>
 <variable access="read,write" name="effort" mapped-name="Effort"></variable>
 <variable access="read" name="comment" mapped-name="Comment"></variable>
 </controller>
 </task>
 <transition to="Approve Appraisal Form"></transition>
 </task-node>


 <end-state name="End"></end-state>



</process-definition>

and my forms.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<forms>
 <form task="Fill Appraisal Form" form="Fill Appraisal Form.xhtml"/>
 <form task="Approve Appraisal Form" form="Approve Appraisal Form.xhtml"/>
 <form task="Update Appraisal Form" form="Update Appraisal Form.xhtml"/>
</forms>

and i am creating any process instance via this way:

 public ProcessInstance startNewProcessInstance(String processDefinitionName) {

 JbpmContext jbpmContext = jbpmConfiguration.createJbpmContext();
 try {
 GraphSession graphSession = jbpmContext.getGraphSession();
 ProcessDefinition definition = graphSession
 .findLatestProcessDefinition(processDefinitionName);
 if (definition != null) {

 } else {
 definition = deployProcessDefinition(jbpmContext,
 processDefinitionName);
 }
 ProcessInstance instance = definition.createProcessInstance();
 signalProcess(jbpmContext, instance);
 return instance;
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 } finally {
 jbpmContext.close();
 }
 return null;
 }

Please help!!!!!

[kukeltje]

you have to open-up the forms yourself if you do not use the console