[jboss-user] [jBPM] - start a process within another process in jbpm 4.3

[Al Nadein]

Al Nadein [http://community.jboss.org/people/matrixpooh] replied to the discussion

"start a process within another process in jbpm 4.3"

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In short, I start a process that happily follows a few steps before it hits a 'wait' state where it's persisted to db. At some point, i have to derive by the rules if any other sub-processes have to be created. Since jbpm provides an option to create only 1 subprocess at a given step, I'm openning subprocesses programmatically, i.e. in *CreateSubprocesses* activity handler:

        {code}
       //calculate groups to assign to a swimlane
         taskAssignees = ...;
            
          assigneeGroups.put(SharedConstants.KEY_SWIMLANE_CANDIDATE_GROUPS, taskAssignees);
            
           ProcessInstance processInstance = executionService.startProcessInstanceByKey("subprocess_1", assigneeGroups);    
{/code}
Again, all of the above is done in an activity handler of the process that has just been instantiated and hasn't been saved to db yet.

Here's a shortened version of my jpdl:

{code:xml}
<process key="main" name="main" xmlns=" http://jbpm.org/4.3/jpdl http://jbpm.org/4.3/jpdl">
   
   <start g="5,23,48,48" name="start">
      <transition g="141,46:-88,-15" name="open.case" to="Create sub-process"/>
   </start>

   <state g="306,193,148,52" name="Wait For Update">
      <transition g="-23,-24" name="end" to="end1"/>
   </state>
   
   <custom g="239,26,138,52" name="Create sub-process" class="*CreateSubprocesses*">
      <transition g="484,52:-108,-17" name="to-split-paths" to="Wait For Update"/>
   </custom>
  <end g="566,493,48,48" name="end1"/>

</process>
{/code:xml} 

and one of possible sub-processes (simplified):

{code:xml}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<process name="test" key="test" xmlns=" http://jbpm.org/4.3/jpdl http://jbpm.org/4.3/jpdl">

   <swimlane candidate-groups="#{assigned.responsibilities}" name="assigned-group"/>
 
   <start name="start1" g="16,21,48,48">
      <transition name="to task1" to="task1" g="-17,-20"/>
   </start>
   
   <end name="end1" g="219,17,48,48"/>
   
   <task name="task1" g="96,16,92,52" swimlane="assigned-group">
      <transition name="to end1" to="end1" g="-20,-19"/>
   </task>
   
</process>
{/code:xml}



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