jbpm 6.0.1 create process calling rest - rest

How to create process with 1 service task - rest which calls
http://www.webservicex.net/currencyconvertor.asmx/ConversionRate?FromCurrency=EUR&ToCurrency=USD
and sets this value as parameter which can be seen later, using jbpm console(kie workbench)? JBOSS docs are mostly for user tasks.

My recommended solution is to create a new WorkItemHandler implementation that calls the web service get the results and inject that as a process variable.
You can see a similar example that calls web services here: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpm-playground/tree/master/customer-relationships-workitems
HTH

There is a REST service task that you can use, available out-of-the-box in the web-based designer (under service tasks, so implemented as a custom service task). The associated handler should also be registered automatically when using the jbpm-installer:
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpm/blob/master/jbpm-installer/conf/META-INF/CustomWorkItemHandlers.conf#L4

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Multiple v2 Service Remoting Endpoints in Service Fabric

I'm using Service Fabric v6.1.472. We're trying to switch to using Service Fabric Remoting (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-reliable-services-communication-remoting), specifically to use the v2 listeners.
The problem I'm running in to is that the documentation only says how to do it using a single listener via the extension method:
protected override IEnumerable<ServiceInstanceListener> CreateServiceInstanceListeners()
{
return this.CreateServiceRemotingInstanceListeners();
}
This assumes that
The service class implements the remoting interface
There is only one remoting v2 endpoint in the host (I need multiple endpoints).
When digging into the decompiled code, it looks like this extension method uses a hard-coded endpoint name, which would make it impossible to use this for multiple remoting endpoints. Further digging revealed that many of the methods used by the extension method are marked internal.
Short of creating my own library, has anyone else found a workaround to this bit of bad design?
Edit
Microsoft updated their documentation. Under the header "Using explicit V2 classes to use the V2 stack," it is clear how to create listeners without the extension method.

NServiceBus disposing Autofac Container

Here goes - bear with me:
Two Autofac 4.2.1 Containers:
One in an Asp.NET 4.6.1 WebApi project
One in an NServiceBus 6 host
Both possess an IJobService reference to the JobService (which saves jobs to DynamoDB).
Run the project in Visual Studio...
If I make a WebApi request into the first JobService it succeeds and inserts a record to DynamoDB and drops a command on the bus for NServiceBus to pickup.
During the processing of the Saga, NServiceBus makes a call to JobService again (presumably on the second container) to save progress. This second call fails to insert to DynamoDB with the lifetime disposed. If I try to create anything from IComponentContext I get:
Instances cannot be resolved and nested lifetimes cannot be created from this LifetimeScope as it has already been disposed.
The NServiceBus host is running AsA_Server and I register the container in the Customize method of IConfigureThisEndPoint.
Any pointers on how to see where the lifetime is getting dumped or if it's mysteriously picking the wrong IJobService somehow?
Just to close this one out - we ended up redesigning the solution and moving any web service calls out to their own handlers. That was based off the advice found here http://docs.particular.net/nservicebus/sagas That change resolved the issue one way or another.
Specifically, this guidance:
Other than interacting with its own internal state, a saga should not access a database, call out to web services, or access other resources - neither directly nor indirectly by having such dependencies injected into it.

Does Feign retry require some sort of configuration?

I just tried to do a attempted a seamless upgrade of a service in a test setup. The service is being accessed by a Feign client. And naively I was under the impression that with multiple instances available of the service, the client would retry another instance if it failed to connect to one.
That, however, did not happen. But I cannot find any mention of how Feign in Spring Cloud is supposed to be configured to do this? Although I have seen mentions of it supporting it (as opposed to using RestTemplate where you would use something like Spring Retry?)
If you are using ribbon you can set properties similar to the following (substituting "localapp" for your serviceid):
localapp.ribbon.MaxAutoRetries=5
localapp.ribbon.MaxAutoRetriesNextServer=5
localapp.ribbon.OkToRetryOnAllOperations=true
ps underneath Feign has a Retryer interface, which was made to support things like Ribbon.
https://github.com/Netflix/feign/blob/master/core/src/main/java/feign/Retryer.java
see if property works - OkToRetryOnAllOperations: true
You can refer application ->
https://github.com/spencergibb/spring-cloud-sandbox/blob/master/spring-cloud-sandbox-sample-frontend/src/main/resources/application.yml
Spencer was quick...was late by few minutes :-)

Service task node vs Domain Specific task node

What is the difference between a service task node and a domain specific node (custom work item) in jBPM?
Service task is defined in the bpmn2 specification and custom work items are the natural extension to your own domain requirements. From the implementation point of view the Service task allows you to interact with a Java Bean or a web service directly (just via configuration) and the Custom WorkItem requires you to define a connector (by implementing the WorkItemHandler interface) that you then need to add to the application class path.
Hope this helps.
Regards

Can ASP.NET Web API methods be called from a Windows CE app / CF 3.5?

We were thinking about doing something like WCF / REST - I think the techn[ique,ology] was called ADO.NET Data Services in VS 2008 / .NET 3.5 - anyway, something like a RESTful receiving and transmitting of data from a CF 3.5 app and a desktop .NET 4 app to simplify the client / Windows CE app so that it simply sends and receives XML or JSON data, rather than connecting to a remote database or so.
However, according to Where to start REST web service in C# or ASP.Net:
"REST in WCF no longer supported - now it points to ASP"
From the same link:
"ASP.NET Web API is now the Microsoft framework for creating RESTful services.
http://www.asp.net/web-api"
Okay, I think we can do that (WebAPI) - the plan is to host the server/service in IIS; however: Can ASP.NET Web API methods be called from CF 3.5? Does anybody have examples of such?
As long as CF 3.5 can make http requests, then you should be able to make rest calls. Look for HttpWebRequest in CF.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446517.aspx
Look at Microsoft's article Calling WCF Services.
To create your service, you are going to need to Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5, then turn around after installing that to Download the New NetCFSvcUtil (that is a direct download).
I've created Batch files that I store in my Services folder of my Windows Mobile Project (that way, I can't lose them). The batch file is like this:
** create.bat **
NetCFSvcUtil.exe /l:cs /o:Employee.cs /cb:ServiceModelBase http://cpweb2/mainframe/AcpEmployee.svc?wsdl
pause
NetCFSvcUtil.exe /l:cs /o:Packout.cs /cb:ServiceModelBase http://cpweb2/mainframe/AcpPackout.svc?wsdl
pause
That creates 2 Proxy files for me: One for Employees and one for my Packout service. They both create the same base file, ServiceModelBase, which is just a way for services to throw exceptions.
Adding the pause between steps enables you to read any error messages that are thrown up on the screen before running the next command.