HI Chathura,

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Chathura Ekanayake <[email protected]>wrote:

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> Hi,
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> We are planning to implement BPMN support in BPS using Activiti (
> http://www.activiti.org). Activiti is an open source (Apache license)
> BPMN engine, consisting of the following components:
>
> - Workflow engine
> - Web user interface
> - Web based BPMN editor
> - Eclipse based BPMN editor
>
> Activiti workflow engine exposes all functions as Java APIs, which can be
> integrated with BPS. In addition, Activiti supports human tasks based on
> BPMN human tasks, which can also be accessed using its Java API.
>
> I did an initial study on integrating Activiti as a carbon component and
> exposing it as a WS API. Below are some major items we have to decide for
> BPMN support:
>
> Multi-tenancy support
>    - Whether to implement wrappers to the Activiti API, or implement this
> in Activiti core (I will discuss this in a separate mail)
>
> BPMN deployer
>    - Structure of deployment archives
>
> BPMN editor
>    - Web based editor provided by Activiti is GPL licensed. So, if we want
> a web based editor, we will have to implement it on our own. Otherwise, we
> can integrate Activiti's eclipse based editor with DevS.
>

Activity Eclipse Plugin is also GPL licensed.[1]. Therefore we will not be
able to ship it with DevS but we can include a reference to it.

[1]. http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/activiti#.UvoHA3l2SaA

Thanks and Regards,
Harshana

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> Clustering
>    - Activiti offers some level of clustering support. We have to further
> check this and implement necessary improvements.
>
> Regards,
> Chathura
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