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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 1599

Connectors in Activiti BPM

Currently we evaluate Activiti as a possible Open Source Business Process Engine. One important requirement is an easy integration of external systems (ECM, CRM, SharePoint, SAP...) within the processes. During research I found some articles claiming that there are no build-in connectors to other systems. The only way to interact with external systems is to invoke java classes (see http://forums.activiti.org/content/how-create-connector and http://books.google.de/books?id=kMldSaOSgPYC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=Bonita+Open+Solution+connectors&source=bl&ots=uwzz5OSten&sig=h2wf0q5J3xAxwN3AZ7Vondemnec&hl=de&sa=X&ei=uwBYUtehHoTqswacrYHgDQ&ved=0CIUBEOgBMAc4Cg#v=onepage&q=Bonita%20Open%20Solution%20connectors&f=false)

How complex is the integration of external systems in Activiti processes? Is it true that there are no bulid-in connectors? This would be a showstopper-criteria for us.

best regards and thanks for you reply Ben

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1654

Answers (1)

Onur Yılmaz
Onur Yılmaz

Reputation: 132

Currently (as version 5.14) Activiti has direct connection to

  • Alfresco for document repository
  • Drools for rule tasks
  • LDAP for groups and users
  • Mule for sending messages
  • Camel for sending/receiving messages

To integrate any other external system you need to use Java Service Task, where you can use Java classes to delegate workflow to your external system. These Java classes can take variables from your workflow, can direct to one of its outgoing flows and of course you can use any capability of your external system.

Upvotes: 2

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