Add serialize/deserialize process instances in Management API
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Key: ODE-483
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODE-483
Project: ODE
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: Wishlist
Reporter: Rafal Rusin
Imagine situation when client has deployed a process with a lot of active, long
running instances. Then he finds there's a bug in this process and a simple
bugfix is needed. But with current versioning rules, new version is only used
when new instances are created. So there's no simple way for doing such bufixes
(which are usually possible with eg. java application using database
connection). It is a blocking argument for deploying ODE Bpel solution instead
of a regular java application.
I think the best way to deal with such situations is to add
serialize/deserialize to/from xml operations for process instances in
management API. Also pause/resume ODE operations would be useful.
Then, a bugfix procedure would look like this;
-pause ode
-serialize instances
-deploy newer version
-deserialize instances and fix manually any import errors
-resume ODE
It would also be a benefit of being able to do migration from older to newer
ODE and between Hibernate/JPA DAOs, which I saw already in some bug reports.
What do you think about it?
Regards
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