If “a” is correct – may be I can customize the “JPAWorkItemManager” for my usage? Am I on the right path or I am missing something.

Thanks

Vijay

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From: rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Vijay K Pandey
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:15 PM
To: Rules Users List
Subject: [rules-users] Drools Flow 5.1.0.M1 - Persistence - WorkItemInfo Entity

I have a question related to the (Drools Flow 5.1.0.M1 - Persistence) on the data that gets stored as part of the org.drools.persistence.processinstance.WorkItemInfo.

a) If I am using variable persistence strategy – and I pass a JPA Entity(stored in its own table) to a session.startProcess(“”, map) and map this entity variable to a parameter in the work item node – then this entity will get stored in the WorkItemInfo table as a part of the serialized form in the column (workItemByteArray). So if that is true we have got the same data stored twice? Is this correct?

b) If “a” is true how can we avoid storing in the WorkItemInfo – is there somehow we can map the JPA entity to the WorkItemInfo – so that it doesn’t gets stored twice?

Thanks

Vijay