[jwt-dev] Questions concerning JWT4SOA and Bonita

["Florian Lautenbacher" <florian.lautenbacher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mickael, hi Marc B., hi Pierre,

 

I started on working with Bonita today and it's actually quite easy to use. The documentation is well written and the administration website is very well structured and easily understandable. I deployed some existing bar files to the engine and executed them step by step. Then I thought, okay, it should be quite easy to deploy an existing bar file with some lines of Java code and had a closer look into the JavaDoc. There, I found that there exists a ManagementAPI interface that allows to deploy a xpdl- (deprecated) or a bar-file. But since this is only an interface, there must be some concrete classes in Bonita where this is already implemented and which I can invoke. Where exactly can I find the right one?

 

Then I thought, aah, now that I have the Bonita engine running, I want to test the monitoring plugin in JWT. Mickael already sent me the code for the workflow service and I had a look at our Wiki page, but I had not been successfull. The first thing that I noticed was, that the server is directly called in the JWT monitoring frame (compare bug 264167). Using existing tools for server management, is probably much better. When I add the JWT Monitoring view to Eclipse then I can right-click and add a new workflow service. But where exactly does the workflow service come from? I only have the Java code (which is not a plugin), and there is no window to select a JAR archive or something. So how is the WorkflowService selected?

 

The third thing that is probably quite important for vendors is how to deploy a process directly from Eclipse. Okay, I already mentioned the server list where each vendor should have the possibility to register their server (e.g. Nova Bonita or jBPM), but additionally we will probably need a possibility to deploy the process. This might either go in the context of the server list (Deploy... Select workflow) or in the context of the workflow (Export... Deploy to server). I hope that we can have some discussion on bug 264167 where vendors will express their needs and then can create an interface which does fit their needs.

 

Any wishes and ideas concerning this issue would be helpful.

 

Thanks for reading and best regards,

 

Florian

 

PS: This is probably something we could also discuss in a separate telco concerning JWT4SOA. Mickael, if you find some free time, let us shortly chat what shall be part of this telco and we will organize it.