Starting BPM process using Camel, JMS, Spring

[aschrijver]

Hi,

Is there any sample code available of how to use Spring + Camel to start a BPMN2 process from a Camel route (e.g. whenever a message arrives on a JMS queue)?

I am looking for something along the lines of the Activiti Camel implementation (e.g. in Camel: from("direct:start").to("activiti:camelProcess"); )

I am aware of the option to have Camel invoke a custom bean that fires up the process such as described here in Eric Schabell's blog post

(with this in the camel route: <to uri="bean:startit?method=startProcessFromCamel"/>), but that is not what I am looking for.

I looked at the kie-camel project in droolsjbpm-integration. Here there are some tests where commands are directed to a ksession via call made on a rest (or soap) service. This project only calls rule files, not processes.

In the kie-spring project there are tests where processes are instantiated from Spring, but no Camel samples.

[swiderski.maciej]

currently there is no dedicated camel component for jBPM (contributions more than welcome) but you can leverage jBPM REST or JMS components from within camel route to achieve pretty much the same thing.

HTH

[aschrijver]

Thanks Maciej, this is what I thought. I'll go for that approach.