Dear All,
I'm designing a new application for deploying softwares to multiple systems.I need to
support wizard like option where in the user can input his machine details and other
software configurations.The wizard pages displayed to the user would vary based on the
selections done by user in earlier pages.
I'm thinking of using workflow for this.I would configure a
processdefinition.xml file containing all the flow paths user might choose while
configuring. Based on the user selections, I need to create a new workflow at runtime
which is basically a subset of the master processdefinition.xml. I need to save this new
workflow created at runtime into a new xml(install_processdefinition.xml).Based on the
number of machines the user wants to deploy the software,i would create so many forked
process which would take care of progress tracking of installation of a remote machine.As
the software is to be installed on remote machines, I would transfer these
install_procesdefiniton.xml to those remote machines and execute the workflow there.I need
to have fork/join as I need to do pre installation checks on all these machines before
initiating the installation and then wait till the installation is finished on all the
machines before post installation tasks are initiated.
My questions are:
1.Is jBPM and other workflows in general suitable for this application.
2.How can I write back the processdefinition.xml(i read the jpdlxmlwriter is deprecated)
3.Can each forked process/task load and execute a new different processdefinition.xml
4.How can the communication happen between the GUI and the workflow engine
5.Can the TaskInstance persist complex data.
Regards
Raghu
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