Maven

The Imixs-Workflow project contains a great deal of technologies which helps building powerful workflow applications. To integrate the Imixs-Workflow Engine into a business application, the project provides Maven artifacts. Maven is a build and configuration tool which helps to organize a project and finding necessary libraries and artifacts through the Internet. Working with maven makes it almost simple to build applications based on different libraries or frameworks. General information about using Maven in a project can be found on the Maven project site.

Downloads

All binaries from the Imixs-Workflow project are provided in the maven-central-repository. To download a binary directly from there you cab browse the maven-central-repository and search for the keyword ‘imixs’.

Maven Dependencies

To add the dependency of Imixs-Workflow to a maven proejct, the dependencies can be configured in the pom.xml like shown in the following example:

...
<properties>
    .....
    <org.imixs.workflow.version>3.9.0</org.imixs.workflow.version>
</properties>
...
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
    <artifactId>imixs-workflow-core</artifactId>
    <version>${org.imixs.workflow.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
    <artifactId>imixs-workflow-engine</artifactId>
    <version>${org.imixs.workflow.version}</version>
</dependency>

The latest version number can be look up by browsing the maven-central-repository. Also detailed information about each artifact are provided in separate sections of the different Imixs-Workflow subprojects.

Snapshot Releases

Snapshot releases are newer releases of the Imixs-Workflow engine which are still under development. A Snapshot release should only be used in cases where the latest final release did not provide a specific feature or bug-fix needed to work with. The Imixs-Workflow snapshot releases are published inti the Sonatype Snapshot repository.

Note: The snapshot repository should only be used if snapshot releases are necessary for a specific build!

To access the Snapshot repository the following additional repository location can be added into the Maven settings.xml configuration file or the project pom.xml.

...
    <repositories>
      <!-- Sonatype Snapshot repository -->
      <repository>
            <id>sonatype-snaptshots</id>
            <name>Sonatype Snapshot repository</name>
            <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
      </repository>          
    </repositories>
....

Java EE Module Configuration Using Maven

Using Maven makes it easy to setup an Java enterprise application. Most of the steps described in the deployment guide can be simplified. The following section describes how you can use maven in your EAR and how you should setup the EAR and EJB pom.xml files.

Packaging the Imixs-Workflow engine into a EJB Module

Using the maven-ejb-plugin you can add a declaration for additional manifest entries. This makes it easy to add the Imixs JEE Components into your EJB module. The following example shows how to add the additional configuration to your pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <parent>
       <artifactId>imixs-workflow-jsf-sample</artifactId>
       <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
       <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
    <artifactId>imixs-workflow-jsf-sample-ejb</artifactId>
    <packaging>ejb</packaging>
    <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <properties> 
        <org.imixs.workflow.version>3.9.0</org.imixs.workflow.version>
   </properties>
    <build>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
              <source>1.7</source>
              <target>1.7</target>
          </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
              <ejbVersion>3.0</ejbVersion>
              <archive>
                 <!-- add the EJB module imixs-workflow-engine -->
                 <manifestEntries>
                   <Class-Path>imixs-workflow-engine-${org.imixs.workflow.version}.jar imixs-workflow-core-${org.imixs.workflow.version}.jar</Class-Path>
                 </manifestEntries>
              </archive>
          </configuration>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
    </dependencies>
</project>

Note: The jar versions defined by the Class-Path entry need to match the jar versions provided by the module!

Packaging the Imixs-Workflow engine into an EAR

To package the Imixs-Workflow engine into an EAR the pom.xml can be configured as shown in the following example:

...
    <build>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
              <version>5</version>
              <modules>
                 <!-- Web Module -->
                 ....
                 <!-- EJB Module -->
                 ...

                 <!-- Imixs-Workflow -->
                 <JarModule>
                   <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
                   <artifactId>imixs-workflow-engine </artifactId>
                 </JarModule>  
                 <JarModule>
                   <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
                   <artifactId> imixs-workflow-core </artifactId>                
                 </JarModule>

                 ....

              </modules>
          </configuration>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
       <!-- Imixs Workflow  -->
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
         <artifactId>imixs-workflow-core</artifactId>
         <type>jar</type>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.imixs.workflow</groupId>
         <artifactId>imixs-workflow-engine</artifactId>
         <type>jar</type>
       </dependency>

       ....
    </dependencies>

Note: The deployment descriptiors for the EJB Module (ejb-jar.xml) are not part of the Imixs-Workflow jar files and need to be provided by the deployed application. This enables the application to provide custom environment specific configurations. See the following example of a ejb-jar.xml file providing the JNDI Mail ressource to the Imixs-Workflow engine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ejb-jar xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:ejb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd"
    version="3.0">
    <enterprise-beans>
       <session>
         <ejb-name>WorkflowService</ejb-name>
         <ejb-class>org.imixs.workflow.jee.ejb.WorkflowService</ejb-class>
         <session-type>Stateless</session-type>      
         <!-- Mail Configuration -->
         <env-entry>
          <description>Mail Plugin Session name</description>
          <env-entry-name>IMIXS_MAIL_SESSION</env-entry-name>
          <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
          <env-entry-value>java:/mail/org.imixs.workflow.mail</env-entry-value>
         </env-entry>
         <ejb-ref>
          <ejb-ref-name>ejb/PropertyService</ejb-ref-name>
          <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
          <remote>org.imixs.workflow.jee.util.PropertyService</remote>
         </ejb-ref>
         <!-- Mail resource -->
         <resource-ref>
          <res-ref-name>java:/mail/org.imixs.workflow.mail</res-ref-name>
          <res-type>javax.mail.Session</res-type>
          <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
          <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope>
         </resource-ref>
       </session>
    </enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>