[jbpm-dev] Question about workitems and abort

[Giovanni Marigi]

Hi all,
my question is about the completion of a custom workitem; my scenario:

- process reaches and executes a custom work item
- work item throws an exception (under the hood it calls an ejb that throws an exception)
- the exception is catched inside the work item
- inside the catch block the method manager.abortWorkItem is called

In case of abortion of a work item I'm wondering why the nest step inside a process is anyway called?
In case of abortion of a work item IMHO the process should not go on but "roll back" to the previous safe state
This is the scenario my customer need.

Actually I'm facing this situation not calling the method manager.abortWorkItem but throwing inside the work item a
throw new IllegalStateException("****EJBControlWorkItemHandler:ILLEGAL STATE EXCEPTION!!!****")

Maybe a solution could be an evaluation of the work item status after the completion of the work item. Anyway how can I handle an automatically rollback to a previous safe state?

Thanks,
Giovanni

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Giovanni Marigi
Red Hat - JBoss Consultant -
email: gmarigi at redhat.com
Mobile: +39 3423175986
Office: +39 0687502315

Red Hat Italy
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00192 Roma - Italy
www.redhat.com

Prima di stampare, pensa all'ambiente ** Think about the environment before printing