Modify existing Workflow

[sgoschin]

Hi,

currently I try to define my own workflows, this of course includes testing and repetitive deployments to DTgov / S-RAMP.

1. So, I was wondering if the only possibilty to replace a DTgov workflow is to remove the old workflow and all its processes, forms, etc. from S-RAMP and afterwards deploying the new version to S-RAMP using "mvn clean deploy".

Just redeploying does not work because than S-RAMP returns that a file with the same name already exists.

2. Does the replacement requires a restart of the EAP, a redeployment of dtgov.war or is it directly useable?

3. Is there a possibility to configure more than one KieJarArchive to be used for workflows?

4. Is there an easier way to test workflows than deploying them to S-RAMP?

I hope you can help me with that.

[jorgemoralespou_2]

Have you consider using something like Docker for this?

The workflow could be to create a DTGov docker image, where you deploy your workflow everytime you create a container out of it. This way, to have a clean dtgov, is just a matter of deleting the container, and starting a new instance.

There are some dockerfiles out there to be able to use DTGov on top of EAP (no tomcat /wildfly) yet, and it is very straight forward, I will be glad to give more details.

As for the questions:

1. Yes, AFAIK.

2. Should be directly usable, as it is S-RAMP that triggers the execution of the workflow when a query is detected for the workflow.

3. No, AFAIK. I would recommend to create a JIRA, if there is none, as I discussed this some time ago with DTGov developers

4. I think there is an Arquillian plugin, but I do not know that much about it.

I guess you'll have official response form the developers, who know much more than me :-D

Cheers,

[kurtstam]

Hi Sebastian,

You should be able to add a new version of the workflow. Existing workflows should finish on the old definition, while new workflows will use the new version. Make sure to reference the new version in the dtgov.properties (or wherever that info is stored now).

Cheers,

--Kurt

[eric.wittmann]

3. Not at present.  But you can track this JIRA:  [DTGOV-206] Explore: Support multiple simultaneous KIE jars - JBoss Issue Tracker

[eric.wittmann]

You might also be interested in a new feature added in the 1.4.0.Final release:  [DTGOV-134] Workflow/KIE JAR: Add support for maven keywords - LATEST / RELEASE - JBoss Issue Tracker