KIE workbench : How to deploy a war / jar whose services may be referred from a KIE module on workbench

[rdeveloper87]

Hi,

I am new to JBPM and KIE workbench and have a requirement as follows.

I am creating a JBPM process flow using eclipse.

My flow makes use of some service calls from another module which has been referred using a pom dependency.

My question is , when i will run my process from the workbench , how am i supposed to refer to these dependencies?

Do i deploy the dependent jars on KIE workbench? If yes then how, coz i do not see any provision for deployment of jars? We can only upload them.

OR Do i create independent modules on the workbench and then deploy them?

Thanks.

[swiderski.maciej]

if you deploy the module as kjar that has defined dependency to the service module kie-workbeanch will download and attached this service module into classloader of the kjar. And by that providing access to all the classes available there.

Alternatively you can drop the service module jar into WEB-INF/lib of kie-workbench application so it will be globally accessible.

HTH

[rdeveloper87]

Yes, as Maciej mentions , dropping the jars in WEB-INF/lib will do the trick.

This will require unpacking the war and then adding the jars.

Another simple method is use take help of the readily available ant task "install.jBPM-console.into.jboss" which will pick up ant configurations for CustomWorkItemHandler from /conf/default.session.template  and also the jar dependencies from /dependencies and will pack them into a jar and will deploy the same.

This goes for jbpm 5.4

Similar would be the case for jbpm6.