Introduction
In this tutorial we are going to explain how to
- install activiti, activiti-explorer and activiti-rest applications to your server
- connect activiti to your mysql database server
- skip creation of demo data
Download and install
- Download Activiti here :).
- Installing Tomcat
- Windows: download tomcat from here
- Ubuntu: type this command
sudo apt-get install tomcat7
- In the downloaded zip you can find activiti-rest.war and activiti-explorer.war files, copy them into tomcat/webapps
- Start the Tomcat
- Find activiti on next addresses:
http://localhost:8080/activiti-explorer
Activiti REST can be found here
http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/services
- Login using username and password kermit/kermit
MySQL Server
Activiti by default uses in memory database H2,that menas that each time you restart your tomcat server you are going to lose all of your tasks, users and so on.
In case you do not have MySQL server installed you can install it either by downloading it from their download page or in case you are using Ubuntu server by typing :
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
Activiti applications need to connect to mysql server using connector that you need to download from here . After you download it put in inside both war files in lib folder.
Activiti database settings can be found in
activiti-explorer\WEB-INF\classes\db.properties
activiti-rest\WEB-INF\classes\db.properties
We want it to look like this to applications would connect to mysql server that we have previously installed.
db=activitiblog jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/activitiblog?characterEncoding=UTF-8 jdbc.username=activiti jdbc.password=activitiPass
After modifying db.setting start the tomcat and you are ready to go.
Disabling Activiti Demo Data
Demo data is created after you start the server for the first time, to disable this find the file
activiti-explorer\WEB-INF\activiti-standalone-context.xml
In the beginning of the file you will find bean definition demoDataGenerator :
<bean id="demoDataGenerator" class="org.activiti.explorer.demo.DemoDataGenerator" init-method="init"> <property name="processEngine" ref="processEngine" /> <!-- Set following properties to false if certain demo data is not wanted --> <property name="createDemoUsersAndGroups" value="true" /> <property name="createDemoProcessDefinitions" value="true" /> <property name="createDemoModels" value="true" /> <property name="generateReportData" value="true" /> </bean>
Set values to false to properties that you do not require demo data to be created.
Summary
In this tutorial we have learned
- to install Tomcat
- to install Mysql server
- to install activiti-explorer and activiti-rest
- Connect apps to mysql server
- Disable creation of demo data
We have written nice tutorial on how to extend activiti-rest and we encourage you to read it.
This was helpful except the last part
Disabling Activiti Demo Data
Demo data is created after you start the server for the first time, to disable this find the file
activiti-explorer\WEB-INF\activiti-standalone-context.xml
The file mentioned doesn’t exist
Hello,
it depends what version you are using. If you have 5.17 you can find file engine.properties with this properties
# demo data properties
create.demo.users=true
create.demo.definitions=true
create.demo.models=true
create.demo.reports=true
Hope this helps!
yes it is very useful but it didnt work ?!! plz can you tell mee what activitiblog in
db=activitiblog
jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/activitiblog?characterEncoding=UTF-8
and what is username and pass is it the server user or database user
jdbc.username=activiti
jdbc.password=activitiPass
This values depend of your own mysql server , you specify the database user and username. This is just an example that can be found on my server.
Let me know if you need any help.