Thanks Esteban for your reply. As I originally mentioned in my post, I have read that in jbpm4, it is possible to call the spring beans from the process.
http://www.inze.be/andries/2009/06/28/documentation-spring-jbpm-integration/
Please look under configuration.I am new to jbpm and did not understand the whole configuration in the above one . May be it is something that was possible in jbpm4 but not in jbpm5.
Also currently in our jbpm3 project, we are using a singleton class to look up beans in Spring context .I have pasted some of the code snippets .Since this has the hard coding of the bean names in the codebase, we want to see if there are other ways.
ServiceInstance serviceInstance = ServiceInstance.getInstance();
return (PaymentService) serviceInstance.getBean("paymentServiceBean");
where ServiceInstance is a class that implements implements org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware and has a property oforg.springframework.context.ApplicationContext ...so the getBean will lookup the beans with name and return them.
public class ServiceInstance implements
ApplicationContextAware {
private static ServiceInstance staticServiceInstance = new ServiceInstance();
private static ApplicationContext ac;
public static
ServiceInstance getInstance() {
return staticServiceInstance
;}
@Override
public void
setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext)
throws
BeansException {
if (ac == null) {
ac
ac = applicationContext;}
}
public Object getBean(String beanId) {
return ac.getBean(beanId);}