jBPM 3.x and JBoss 4.2.x compatible enterprise EAR needs to

[ryanrlamothe]

We have spend considerable amounts of time getting the currently available downloads of jBPM to work with JBoss 4.2. The changes that were required ended up not being terribly difficult, but the jBPM team needs to release a JBoss 4.2 compatible release as soon as possible.

The two main problems were:
1) JSF libs in the web console WAR conflict with JBoss and are no longer needed in the WAR
2) JBoss AOP backported libs for JDK 1.4 are no longer needed since they conflict with JDK 1.5

The following Wiki entry pretty much spells this out:
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=DeployJbpm3.2WebAppUnderJBoss4.2.x

We have a correctly built jBPM enterprise EAR we are currently using for production within our company, but having to build this EAR manually for JBoss 4.2 should not have had to be done.

What do I have to do in order to get developer's check-in access to JBoss CVS or direct contact with the jBPM developer(s) to have this released to the public in an updated JBoss download?

Thanks.

[kukeltje]

See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JbpmContributions , but for the contributors agreement see

http://labs.jboss.com/contributor/

Regarding a binary download that is out of the box compatible with JBoss AS 4.2.x, see http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-1023

[tom.baeyens]

thanks for the wiki page !

there is also a build target in the console that let's you build a 4.2 compatible jbpm console. but we probably won't find time to release that any time soon. as making such changes in a release requires a lot of work. But good that you let us know. If the opportunity comes along, we might just release the jboss 4.2 compatible version.

[ryanrlamothe]

Both the web console and the enterprise EAR need to be built for 4.2 compatibility. Now, it may be additional work, but why does RedHat/JBoss release JBoss AS and leave all of the other equally as important and dependent software releases in various states of compatibility disarray?

[kukeltje]

Look at: http://www.jboss.org/resources/soa

All in line, compatible.... if you do not choose to use this (subscription based) you are to some extend on your own. Sometimes this includes downloading sources e.g. compiling etc...