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1. Re: jbpm integration: task commands
kconner Mar 3, 2009 5:24 AM (in response to p.gentili)There has never been any intention to support worklists from within the ESB, if that is what you are asking. This was always intended to be driven through integration with jBPM.
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2. Re: jbpm integration: task commands
p.gentili Mar 7, 2009 10:18 AM (in response to p.gentili)Hi Kevin and thanks for you reply.
I'll try to explain what i want to do:
I've got an opensource ERP/CRM system (http://www.opentaps.org/)
with a web interface where employees of my company go to execute thier activities that basically consist of compiling forms and submitting them.
I want to orchestrate all theese human activities as parts of jbpm processes, using jbossESB as interconnection layer between the ERP system and workflow engine.
When the employee connects to ERP system, he goes to his personal task list page. Now the ERP should get task list data from jbpm invoking an esb service whose action pipeline contains a BPMProcessor that sends a "GetTaskListCommand" to jbpm. When action pipeline finish a message with results is returned to the ERP who can display to the user a page with his assigned tasks.
When employee has finished working on that task he should submit a form to ERP system. Now, as for the GetTaskList case, the ERP should invoke another esb service whose action pipeline contains a BPMProcessor that sends another type of command to jbpm: "TaskEndCommand", so that jbpm can continue the execution of the process.
In other words i would like to extend BPMProcessor to make it able to send jbpm all commands related to task lifecycle events.
I've allready implemented the capability to send TaskEndCommand,
here is the xml i use:<action class="org.jboss.soa.esb.services.jbpm.actions.BpmProcessor" name="contactReviewTaskEndBpmProcessorAction"> <property name="command" value="TaskInstanceEndCommand"/> <property name="task-instance-id" value="93"/> <property name="transition-name" value="accept"/> </action>
The value of "task-instance-id" should be set dinamically after getting the value from task list in a previous invocation of GetTaskListCommand but this is a very work in progress.
Regards
Paolo