做了几个项目,一直被流程的控制所困扰,决定学习工作流方面的知识,从网上了解到osworkflow是一个轻量级的又极为灵活的工作流引擎(详细情况请访问:http://www.opensymphony.com/osworkflow),所以拿来学习。     折腾了一个下午,终于把自带的example运行起来了。我的测试环境:winxp  tomcat4.1.30   oracle8.05   jdk1.4.2。     首先,下载https://osworkflow.dev.java.net/files/documents/635/4647/osworkflow-2.7.0.zip 。解压后,将osworkflow-2.7.0-example.war拷贝至tomcat的webapp下,启动tomcat,访问http://localhost/osworkflow-2.7.0-example,一切都很easy。     osworkflow提供了多种持久化机制MemoryStore (default), SerializableStore, JDBCStore, OfbizStore等等。由于下载的example是为了方便初学者尽快的将程序运行起来,所以采用了MemoryStore。呵呵,实际的系统可不会让数据全呆在内存里哦。改成JDBCStore试试。
      1、修改tomcat的sever.xml,添加:
  <Context path="/osworkflow-2.7.0-example" docBase="osworkflow-2.7.0-example"         debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"> 
  <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"              prefix="localhost_osworkflow_log." suffix=".txt"              timestamp="true"/> 
  Resource name="jdbc/mydb" auth="Container"               type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>  
<ResourceParams name="jdbc/mydb">   <parameter>     <name>factory</name>     <value>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory</value>   </parameter>   <parameter>     <name>driverClassName</name>     <value>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</value>   </parameter>   <parameter>     <name>url</name>     <value>jdbc:oracle:thin:@127.0.0.1:1521:orcl</value>   </parameter>   <parameter>     <name>username</name>     <value>oswf</value>   </parameter>   <parameter>     <name>password</name>     <value>oswf</value>   </parameter>   <parameter>     <name>maxActive</name>     <value>20</value>   </parameter>   <parameter>     <name>maxIdle</name>     <value>10</value>   </parameter>   <parameter>     <name>maxWait</name>     <value>-1</value>   </parameter> </ResourceParams> 
</Context>
 
      2、修改WEB-INF/classes/osworkflow.xml(红色部分根据您的数据库作相应修改)
  <osworkflow>     <persistence class="com.opensymphony.workflow.spi.jdbc.JDBCWorkflowStore">        <!-- For jdbc persistence, all are required. -->        <property key="datasource" value="jdbc/mydb"/>        <property key="entry.sequence" value="SELECT seq_os_wfentry.nextVal from dual"/>        <property key="entry.table" value="OS_WFENTRY"/>        <property key="entry.id" value="ID"/>        <property key="entry.name" value="NAME"/>        <property key="entry.state" value="STATE"/>        <property key="step.sequence" value="SELECT seq_os_currentsteps.nextVal from dual"/>        <property key="history.table" value="OS_HISTORYSTEP"/>        <property key="current.table" value="OS_CURRENTSTEP"/>        <property key="historyPrev.table" value="OS_HISTORYSTEP_PREV"/>        <property key="currentPrev.table" value="OS_CURRENTSTEP_PREV"/>        <property key="step.id" value="ID"/>        <property key="step.entryId" value="ENTRY_ID"/>        <property key="step.stepId" value="STEP_ID"/>        <property key="step.actionId" value="ACTION_ID"/>        <property key="step.owner" value="OWNER"/>        <property key="step.caller" value="CALLER"/>        <property key="step.startDate" value="START_DATE"/>        <property key="step.finishDate" value="FINISH_DATE"/>        <property key="step.dueDate" value="DUE_DATE"/>        <property key="step.status" value="STATUS"/>        <property key="step.previousId" value="PREVIOUS_ID"/>       </persistence> 
    <factory class="com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.XMLWorkflowFactory">         <property key="resource" value="workflows.xml" />     </factory> </osworkflow>
 
      3、在WEB-INF/classes里新建propertyset.xml
  <propertysets>     <propertyset name="jdbc"        class="com.opensymphony.module.propertyset.database.JDBCPropertySet">         <arg name="datasource" value="jdbc/mydb"/>         <arg name="table.name" value="OS_PROPERTYENTRY"/>         <arg name="col.globalKey" value="GLOBAL_KEY"/>         <arg name="col.itemKey" value="ITEM_KEY"/>         <arg name="col.itemType" value="ITEM_TYPE"/>         <arg name="col.string" value="STRING_VALUE"/>         <arg name="col.date" value="DATE_VALUE"/>         <arg name="col.data" value="DATA_VALUE"/>         <arg name="col.float" value="FLOAT_VALUE"/>         <arg name="col.number" value="NUMBER_VALUE"/>     </propertyset> </propertysets>
 
      4、修改WEB-INF/classes下的osuser.xml
  <opensymphony-user> 
    <provider class="com.opensymphony.user.provider.jdbc.JDBCAccessProvider">         <property name="user.table">OS_USER</property>         <property name="group.table">OS_GROUP</property>         <property name="membership.table">OS_MEMBERSHIP</property>         <property name="user.name">USERNAME</property>         <property name="user.password">PASSWORDHASH</property>         <property name="group.name">GROUPNAME</property>         <property name="membership.userName">USERNAME</property>         <property name="membership.groupName">GROUPNAME</property>         <property name="datasource">java:comp/env/jdbc/mydb</property>     </provider>     <provider class="com.opensymphony.user.provider.jdbc.JDBCCredentialsProvider">         <property name="user.table">OS_USER</property>         <property name="group.table">OS_GROUP</property>         <property name="membership.table">OS_MEMBERSHIP</property>         <property name="user.name">USERNAME</property>         <property name="user.password">PASSWORDHASH</property>         <property name="group.name">GROUPNAME</property>         <property name="membership.userName">USERNAME</property>         <property name="membership.groupName">GROUPNAME</property>         <property name="datasource">java:comp/env/jdbc/mydb</property>     </provider>     <provider class="com.opensymphony.user.provider.jdbc.JDBCProfileProvider">         <property name="user.table">OS_USER</property>         <property name="group.table">OS_GROUP</property>         <property name="membership.table">OS_MEMBERSHIP</property>         <property name="user.name">USERNAME</property>         <property name="user.password">PASSWORDHASH</property>         <property name="group.name">GROUPNAME</property>         <property name="membership.userName">USERNAME</property>         <property name="membership.groupName">GROUPNAME</property>         <property name="datasource">java:comp/env/jdbc/mydb</property>     </provider>          <!--   Authenticators can take properties just like providers. 
  This smart authenticator should work for 'most' cases - it dynamically looks up   the most appropriate authenticator for the current server.  -->  <authenticator class="com.opensymphony.user.authenticator.SmartAuthenticator" /> </opensymphony-user>
      5、在sql-plus里运行下载包里的 src\etc\deployment\jdbc\oracle.sql
      6、启动tomcat
      7、OK。  
 
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