Did you know there’s a new release of Activiti out? Okay, it has been out since March but I’m just now getting around to saying something about it. I haven’t given the entire thing a thorough evaluation, but if you are using the Activiti Designer Eclipse plug-in, you’ll be happy to know that you don’t have to fool with two files for each process definition any longer (three files, if you count the PNG). Instead of a .activiti file and a .bpmn20.xml file, there is just a single .bpmn file.
The new Designer also supports modeling sub-processes. And, it is easier to work with boundary events than it was before.
If you have existing Activiti process definitions, you can open your old .bpmn20.xml files and save them as .bpmn files. Then you can delete your .activiti and .png files.
The version of Activiti embedded in Alfresco 4.0 (Community and Enterprise) is 5.7. I’m assured by the development team that processes edited with version 5.9 of the Designer will continue to work with 5.7. However, there may be some items on the palette that are not supported in older Activiti versions.
One thing to note about this release of the Eclipse plug-in: It no longer runs with Eclipse Helios. You’ll have to upgrade to Indigo.
Just an FYI. The Activiti workflow Console requires files to be named .bpmn20.xml currently. I’ve opened a JIRA on this – ALF-14011. The workaround is to just rename the .bpmn file to .bpmn20.xml.
Hi, I am new to Activiti. From all the screencast that i have watched, there was an important purpose of .bpmn20.xml file. It was also used for mapping the service task to the Java Object. Now will that be done using the new .bpmn file. I am seriously confused now.
Hi Jeff!
Really thanks for your post.
And about boundary events. I faced with a problem that they not supported in current (4.0.1) version of Alfresco and I am not alone who experienced such kind of problem (https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=45152).
Did you try to use Activiti 5.9 with Alfresco 4.0.1 or probably you know some information about new Alfresco release with new version of Activiti? Or you can suggest some tips?
Any way thanks for any response.