[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss jBPM] - Re: Anyone created a RMI or Webservice call wrapper?

[kukeltje]

I'm working on one or at least will be on short notice. Heck, I even might have complete running functionality before the end of the month. 

My ?0.02:
Do NOT use the SLSB, no need (imo) and it makes things NOT work on Tomcat. There is a company that wants a webservice frontend, but they just run Tomcat. Instead of using the/a SLSB, the commandexecutor can be used (not the thread, just the class). I just tried it and it works.

The mapping of the commands  (creating an xsd for this) is a jira issue. The commands can be realy simple Most calls can even be just rpc type calls, very easy to generate. 

Starting a process (just by name or with a version) was implemented in 1 minute (hour is more like it ;-) ) after I got the basics running. Other plain rpc type calls for ending a task (with or without variables, with or without a transitionname) is also not difficult. The thing is that there is no method overloading in wsdl (at least will not be supported in future versions afaik), so for starting a process I have two methods, startProcessLatestVersion (..) and startProcessSpecificVersion(..). Notr beautiful, since with the end task there will be numerous combinations (see also the jira, starting from http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-718)

More complex things will be retrieving a tasklist, logging etc...

My preference is that someone defines a nice XSD and we map that to the command objects, extending those where needed. I'm not a fan of generating xsd's from java (although it did work with JBossWS generated wsdl/webservice and an the eclipse webservice explorer)

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