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Re: jBPM 5: how save a ProcessInstance ?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/jbpm5learner">Andy R.</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/607685#607685">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left">The fact that the processInstance is automatically saved may be convenient. But doing some investigation on the jbpm5-source I found some interesting code examples that may offer explicit saving of a ProcessInstance:</p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.<em>createEntityManagerFactory</em>( </span><span style="color: #2a00ff; font-size: 10pt;">"org.jbpm.persistence.jpa"</span><span style="font-size: 2;">);</span><p align="left">JpaProcessPersistenceContextManager procPersistMgr = <strong style=": ; color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;">new </strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> JpaProcessPersistenceContextManager(env);</span><span style="font-size: 2;"><p align="left">ProcessInstanceInfo procInfo = <strong style=": ; color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;">new </strong></p></span><span style="font-size: 2;">ProcessInstanceInfo(procInstance);</span><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 2;"><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></span>ProcessPersistenceContext persistContext = procPersistMgr.getProcessPersistenceContext();</span><p align="left"><p>persistContext.persist(procInfo);</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The "ProcessPersistenceContext" allows to persist a so-called ProcessInstanceInfo-object. This object contains a ProcessInstance-object. Are you consequently sure that there is no way to persist  ProcessInstance on-demand ?</p></p><span style="font-size: 2;"><p align="left"><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></span></p></p></p></span></p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><div class="mcePaste" id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;"></div><p><a class="jive-link-anchor-small">#</a></p></div>
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