[jbpm-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Work started: (JBPM-2978) Tomcat support in jBPM3

Tomcat support in jBPM3 ----------------------- Key: JBPM-2978 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBPM-2978 Project: jBPM Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Runtime Engine Reporter: Alejandro Guizar Assignee: Alejandro Guizar Fix For: jBPM 3.2.10 Original Estimate: 0 minutes Time Spent: 2 hours, 1 minute Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes A recent question in the user forum got me to write a guide for deploying jBPM3 to Tomcat: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/jBPM3onTomcat . I noticed there were several issues that complicated the deployment path, notably: * The standard DataSourceRealm cannot accommodate the jBPM3 identity model. A custom Realm is required. * Tomcat lacks many dependencies taken for granted in JBoss AS, such as JSF and Hibernate. * Since Tomcat is not an EJB container, the jbpm-enterprise.jar module is inapplicable. The job executor has to be started through a servlet context listener. The difficulties associated to describing and explaining such drastic changes led me to start a Maven overlay that dealt with the above issues neatly. This work quickly took good shape, so I will commit it under this JIRA ticket.