Hi, I use variables (business objects) in ActionHandler

public class Task_ABC implements ActionHandler{

public void execute(ExecutionContext executionContext) throws Exception {
ContextInstance c = executionContext.getProcessInstance().getContextInstance();

Abc abc= (Abc) c.getVariable("abc");

.... do something ...

executionContext.leaveNode();
}
}

Problem is that this variables are not registered in session, if variable has an association and I use it, I get an exception. But if I have variable class has only primitive attributes (String, BigDecimal..) it works perfectly. Workaround is to declare all association in Hibernate as lazy="false" what I don't want. But really interesting is, that if I change value in variable that it will be stored in db. That means that jbpm will register variables in Hibernate session but later and I don't know when.

I don't use any special workflow configuration. This is snip set from my workflow interface:




public class WorkflowService extends HibernateDaoSupport implements IWorkflowService {

private static JbpmConfiguration jbpmConfiguration = JbpmConfiguration.getInstance();


public void startWorkflow(Workflow workflow, Map<String, Object> variables) {
JbpmContext jbpmContext = jbpmConfiguration.createJbpmContext();
jbpmContext.setSessionFactory(getSessionFactory());
jbpmContext.setSession(getSession());

try {
ProcessInstance processInstance = jbpmContext.newProcessInstanceForUpdate(workflow.getFullName());
processInstance.getContextInstance().setTransientVariables(variables);
processInstance.signal();
} finally {
jbpmContext.close();
}
}

Thanks

Fero