The Activiti Explorer provides a tab for deploying processes. To deploy a process into the Activiti Explorer, we have to generate a .bar
file for the process from Eclipse. In order to do this, perform the following steps:
.bar
file, open the laptop human process example in Eclipse..bar
file..bar
file in the deployment
folder (it is named laptopOrderHumanProcess.bar
in the following example screenshot):.bar
file in the Activiti Explorer, log in as the admin user, browse to the Manage tab, and select upload new under the Deployments menu..bar
file by using either the Choose a file or Drop a file here option, as shown in the following screenshot:In this section, we saw how to generate a .bar
file from Eclipse and have also deployed a .bar
file into the Activiti Explorer. So, now we can deploy the process into the Explorer.
Having gone through the chapter, feel free to attempt the following tasks:
Q1. Which user can access the Admin tab?
Q2. How can you monitor the current process graphically?
Q3. What is the extension of the file that is used for deployment?
.jar
.bar
.zip
Q4. Which file is used to configure the database in Activiti?
Web.xml
db.properties
activiti-standalone-context.xml
Q5. Where is the Historical task available?