[jbpm-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBPM-2809) Defer email sending until transaction is commited

Defer email sending until transaction is commited ------------------------------------------------- Key: JBPM-2809 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-2809 Project: jBPM Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: jBPM 4.x Reporter: Peter Horvath Currently emails are sent immediately when they are dispatched from e.g. a mail node or task notification. This can be confusing since the transaction the JBPM execution runs in can be rolled back later. For example a workflow could contain an initial email node which sends a confirmation email to the user who submitted a request ("Your request has been successfully submitted to the workflow system...") - but if the the next node in the workflow throws an exception which rolls back the transaction the submitted request won't be stored in the system. This can be very confusing for the end users. There are similar problems with task notifications as well. I think it would be fairly easy to solve this problem by introducing an optional attribute to the mail node which instructs JBPM to send the email only on transaction commit and modify MailActivity so that it creates a transaction synchronization which sends the email from javax.transaction.Synchronization.afterCompletion(int status) method if the status is COMMITED.