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    JBPM 4.3 - org.jbpm.api.JbpmException: couldn't acquire block of ids
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    reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/campa">Stefano Campanini</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/539800#539800">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi guys, I'm back ... with new energies :-)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>The problem was related to</p><pre jivemacro="wiki"><span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">org.jbpm.pvm.internal.id.DatabaseDbidGenerator</span> and precisely on <span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">AcquireDbidBlockCmd</span> it use.<br/><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I have re-implmented these classes using sequence to generate ids, as below:<br/></span><span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">...<br/>public class SequenceDbIdGenerator extends DbidGenerator {&#160;&#160;&#160; <br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; CommandService commandService;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; <br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; @Override<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; public long getNextId() {<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; return commandService.execute(new SequenceDbIdGeneratorCmd());<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; }<br/>}<br/>...</span><br/>and <br/><span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">...<br/>public class SequenceDbIdGeneratorCmd implements Command&lt;Long&gt; {<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; private static final long serialVersionUID = -8109570788517494372L;<br/><br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; @Override<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; public Long execute(Environment environment) throws Exception {<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Session session = environment.get(Session.class);<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; List&lt;BigInteger&gt; res = session.createSQLQuery(<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; "select nextval('jbpm_seq_external_id')").list();<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; return res.get(0).longValue();<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; }<br/>}</span></pre><p>and i the jbpm config file:</p><p>...</p><p><span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">&lt;object class="net.tinvention.wf.jbpm.SequenceDbIdGenerator"&gt;<br/> &lt;field name="commandService"&gt;&lt;ref object="txRequiredCommandService" /&gt;&lt;/field&gt;<br/>&lt;/object&gt;<br/>&lt;object </span><span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">class="org.jbpm.pvm.internal.id.DatabaseIdComposer" init="eager" /&gt;</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Does anyone more expert on jbpm can validate ? Do you see any hidden disaster or this solution can work ? </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thanks in advance</p><p>Stefano </p></div>

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