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Problem with multiple process instances and HumanTasks

created by Thomas Nakken in jBPM - View the full discussion

Hi

 

I have a process involving 3 HumanTask nodes and 2 CustomService nodes. All works fine if I just run one instance of this process, when I try to setup 2 instances, strage things starts to happend. Looks like the processes influence with each other. My question is how to setup session and knowlegde base to support mulitple instances of my process.

 

I use this strategy to setup my session and prosesses - is this correct?

 

1) When application starts up we read the knowlegdebase (only done once)

 

2) After 1 is completed we setup the session (global session reused)

session = kbase.newStatefulKnowledgeSession() - global and reused trough application

 

3) When we need to start a new process, a new instance is created with the global session

     Have tried different solutions, right now this is what's done when starting up a new process instance:    

    

     //Register two custom work nodes

    session.getWorkItemManager().registerWorkItemHandler("START", new ApplicationWorkManager());

    session.getWorkItemManager().registerWorkItemHandler("APPROVED", new ApplicationWorkManager());

   

     //Register Human Task handler

    CommandBasedWSHumanTaskHandler handler = new CommandBasedWSHumanTaskHandler(appsession);

    session.getWorkItemManager().registerWorkItemHandler("Human Task", handler);

 

     WorkflowProcessInstance process = (WorkflowProcessInstance) appsession.startProcess("no.my.Process",parameters);

 

 

With just one active process things are fine, starting a second process - strage things starts to happend. E.g process number 2 skips the first Human Task which is active in process 1. Is the setup I use correct? Shall I just register WorkItemHandler once? How can i reuse my session for difference process instances?

 

Hope someone can help out here.. I think (and hope) JBPM is able to handle multiple instances of a process.

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