1 Reply Latest reply on Jul 15, 2010 5:29 PM by dsalam

JBPM mail using JSF expressions, how?

dsalam Jul 15, 2010 5:26 PM

Developement: I have developed a process definition in JBPM (3.2.3) and integrated it within a JSF web application. I am using managed-beans (which I have set in "faces-config").

Goal: I would like to use the values that the user enters in the web interface as the values for the mail.

Outcome/Issue: The email that is being sent is empty and includes nothing. It seems that my beans are no being recognized by jbpm mail

How do I use inputs values by user in interface (JSF) as values for jbpm mail attributes such as to, subject, text, etc...?

Which expressions do I use?

See my code below:

This is my processdefinition.xml section for mail

<timer duedate="5 seconds" name="TimerWebApp-2">
             <action class="org.jbpm.mail.Mail">
               <to>
                    #{timerBean.getOwner}
                </to>
                <subject>
                    title: #{timerBean.getTitle}
                </subject>
                <text>
                    desc: #{timerBean.getSummary}
                 </text>
            </action>
        </timer>

thanks for the assistance

1. Re: JBPM mail using JSF expressions, how?

dsalam Jul 15, 2010 5:29 PM (in response to dsalam)

... And this is my class that deploys the process and starts job executions

public void execute() throws Exception 
    {
        ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessDefinition.parseXmlResource("TimerProcess/processdefinition.xml");
        JbpmContext jbpmContext= JbpmConfiguration.getInstance().createJbpmContext();
        
        try{
            // Create an instance of the process definition.
            ProcessInstance instance = processDefinition.createProcessInstance();
            jbpmContext.deployProcessDefinition(processDefinition);
           
            instance.signal("trSetTimer");
            JobExecutor jobExecutor =  jbpmContext.getJbpmConfiguration().getJobExecutor();

            if  (jobExecutor==null) {
                throw new JbpmException("no job executor configured in resource  ");
                }   
            jobExecutor.start();

            jbpmContext.save(instance);
        }finally{
            jbpmContext.close();
             }         
        }
}