Re: [jbpm-dev] Question about workitems and abort

very similar to https://community.jboss.org/thread/170232 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mauricio Salatino" <salaboy(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "Giovanni Marigi" <gmarigi(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: jbpm-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, jboss-italy(a)redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:51:31 PM Subject: Re: [jbpm-dev] Question about workitems and abort by the way.. this question should be asked in the forum.. because it's an user question.. Cheers On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Mauricio Salatino <salaboy(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Giovanni, > My question to you is exactly what do you mean by the previous safe state? > The previous safe state sounds like right after calling the EJB in > your case. Are you doing sync calls before that error? Can you > describe a little bit more about your scenario and how your activities > are being executed? > Cheers > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Giovanni Marigi <gmarigi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> 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 >> >> -- >> Giovanni Marigi >> Red Hat - JBoss Consultant - >> email: gmarigi(a)redhat.com >> Mobile: +39 3423175986 >> Office: +39 0687502315 >> >> Red Hat Italy >> Via Andrea Doria 41m >> 00192 Roma - Italy >> www.redhat.com >> >> Prima di stampare, pensa all'ambiente ** Think about the environment before printing >> >> -- >> Giovanni Marigi >> Red Hat - JBoss Consultant - >> email: gmarigi(a)redhat.com >> Mobile: +39 3423175986 >> Office: +39 0687502315 >> >> Red Hat Italy >> Via Andrea Doria 41m >> 00192 Roma - Italy >> www.redhat.com >> >> Prima di stampare, pensa all'ambiente ** Think about the environment before printing >> _______________________________________________ >> jbpm-dev mailing list >> jbpm-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbpm-dev > > > > -- >  - CTO @ http://www.plugtree.com >  - MyJourney @ http://salaboy.wordpress.com >  - Co-Founder @ http://www.jugargentina.org >  - Co-Founder @ http://www.jbug.com.ar > >  - Salatino "Salaboy" Mauricio - --  - CTO @ http://www.plugtree.com  - MyJourney @ http://salaboy.wordpress.com  - Co-Founder @ http://www.jugargentina.org  - Co-Founder @ http://www.jbug.com.ar  - Salatino "Salaboy" Mauricio - -- Giovanni Marigi Red Hat - JBoss Consultant - email: gmarigi(a)redhat.com Mobile: +39 3423175986 Office: +39 0687502315 Red Hat Italy Via Andrea Doria 41m 00192 Roma - Italy www.redhat.com Prima di stampare, pensa all'ambiente ** Think about the environment before printing