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    User defined class type process variables
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    created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/rahulamt">Rahul Agrawal</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/794624#794624">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>How to define the process variables that are the of some user defined java class.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>For example, I have a java class Foo. I want to have a process variable that is Foo class type. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Does anyone has any idea how the process definition(.bpmn2 file) will look like?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&#160; </span></p><p><span id="mce_marker"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left">&lt;itemDefinition id="_numberItem" structureRef="Foo" /&gt;</p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> &#160;</p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> &#160;</p><p align="left">&lt;process processType="Private" isExecutable="true" name="BPMN_Process" id="BPMN_Process"&gt;</p><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p align="left">&lt;!-- process variables --&gt;</p><p>&lt;property id="number" itemSubjectRef="_numberItem"/&gt;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p></span><p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left">Unable to generate action invoker. : org.drools.lang.descr.ProcessDescr@497062</p><p>org/drools/bpmn2/Process_org_drools_bpmn2_BPMN_ProcessReturnValueEvaluator1Invoker.java (12:385) : Foo cannot be resolved to a type</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Do I need to import something extra? If so, how to do that. Please help.</p></span></p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When I try to load this process definition using <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p align="left" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p align="left">kbuilder.add(ResourceFactory.<em>newFileResource</em>(process),</p><span style="font-size: 2;"><p align="left">ResourceType.</p></span><em style="color: #0000c0; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="color: #0000c0; font-size: 10pt;">BPMN2</em></em><span style="font-size: 2;">);</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 2;"><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p></span><strong style="color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;"><strong style="color: #7f0055; font-size: 10pt;">return</strong></strong><span style="font-size: 2;"> kbuilder.newKnowledgeBase();</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 2;"><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p></span> </span><p>I get the following exception.<a class="jive-link-anchor-small" rel="nofollow">#</a><a class="jive-link-anchor-small" rel="nofollow">#</a><a class="jive-link-anchor-small" rel="nofollow">#</a><a class="jive-link-anchor-small" rel="nofollow">#</a><a class="jive-link-anchor-small" rel="nofollow">#</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="mce_marker"></span></span>&#160;</p><p><span style=": ; font-size: 2;"><p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p></p></span></p></div>

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