Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

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jdp
Active Member

Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Hi,

Currently we are using Activiti 5.15 version with multiple instances/Activiti engines. Now we are planning to upgrade Activiti version to the latest stable one as there are lots of improvement has been done since then. I have searched and found that the Activiti 6.0 is the stable one but 7 is also released. Can any one please advice which one is more stable,  which I can go for ?

Thanks,

Paresh

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pault
Active Member II

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

I'm currently looking at porting some development work to 6 & 7. Couldn't comment on stability, but in terms of code migration it appears 5 to 6 is relatively straight forward. The move to 7 can be more involved, based on the questions and comments I've seen on the forum, perhaps not surprising given version 7 adopts cloud native concepts and a new architecture.   

jdp
Active Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Thank you for your reply PaulT.

Can anybody share your feedback about Activiti 7 in case you had migrated from older Activiti version to 7. I am still confused about which version should I pick to upgrade, Activiti 5.15 to 6 or 7 ?

Thanks,

PM

jdp
Active Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Hi,

Finally we have decided to upgrade Activiti 7.0.0.GA : Release 7.0.0.GA · Activiti/Activiti · GitHub 

Seems this is the latest stable version of Activiti series 7.

Can anybody provide expert advice on this ?

Also, I did not find any ready to run package for this version to evaluate it. I would appreciate if anyone can direct me to get that link.

Thanks,

PM

paul_roth
Established Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Paresh Modi‌ - thanks for going with Activiti 7! 

  • re: expert advice - it may be best to start asking the questions you have and let's see if can answer them within the community. 
  • re: ready to run package - the place to get started is here.  There are Jenkins X Quick Starts available for EKS, AKS, and GKE. What is your target Kubernetes environment?  
jdp
Active Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Actually we are not using cloud based architecture. We have integrated Activiti engine within our Spring based micro service and we are planing to go ahead with same environment with code base of latest Activiti 7 version along with latest modeler app to design workflows.

However few components are not supported yet in Activiti 7 like Timer & Boundary Timer and there are already running workflows in our platform with these components, so how can we manage it. 

Seems Activiti 7 is still under development and not mature enough to use for production environment.

Do you have any suggestions/advice for the same ?

Thanks,

PM

salaboy
Senior Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Hi Paresh,

Activiti 7 is composed by Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud. We are putting all the community effort on the cloud approach. There is no pre made package to evaluate or run, mostly because we are focusing on production ready building blocks instead of a demo app. Having said that, you can still use the libraries (if you embedded activiti in your spring microservices), we have done some work on Activiti Core 7 to make sure that the library aligns with Spring Boot 2.x and for that reason things such as security is now handled fully by Spring. 

Regarding migration, it for our 7.0.0 release we focused in the new shape of the Java APIs, making sure that there is a seamless transition to the cloud approach, this means that you have still access to the OLD 6.x APIs. 

Regarding the Activiti Modeler app that we are building, is focused also in the cloud approach, that means that the BPMN elements that are enabled to be used are the ones that are fully supported by Activiti Cloud. If you are planning to work with Activiti Core, you should be fine by using the Activiti 6.x app to model your processes. 

Hope this helps. 

jdp
Active Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Hi Salatino,

Thank you for your reply, it is really helpful.

I would appreciate if you can answer few queries below and help us to finalize approach for Activiti framework upgrade:

1. From your response what I concluded, Activiti 7 cloud is not useful for us as we are not using cloud based architecture, right ?

2. So in this case, we are planing to upgrade back-end code base with Activiti 7 Core libraries and will continue using same modeler app of 5.15.  Definitions designed by Activiti 5.15 will work with Activiti 7 Core libraries ? and also same for already running workflows ?

3. However in basic analysis of code, we have found that few classes are not available in Activiti 7 Core libraries which we had used from Activiti 5.15. How can we manage usage of these classes ?

org.activiti.engine.impl.el.Expression
org.activiti.engine.impl.jobexecutor.JobExecutor
org.activiti.engine.impl.jobexecutor.MessageAddedNotification
org.activiti.rest.common.api.ActivitiUtil
org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.TimerEntity
org.activiti.engine.FormService
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.ModelRequest
org.activiti.rest.common.api.SecuredResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.BaseModelResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.task.TaskBaseResource
org.activiti.engine.form.FormProperty
org.activiti.engine.form.TaskFormData
org.activiti.engine.impl.form.EnumFormType
org.activiti.rest.service.api.RestResponseFactory
org.activiti.rest.service.api.engine.variable.RestVariable
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.process.BaseProcessInstanceResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.process.ProcessInstanceCreateRequest
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.process.ProcessInstanceResponse
org.activiti.rest.service.application.ActivitiRestServicesApplication
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.DeploymentResource
org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.PvmTransition
org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.process.ActivityImpl
org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.process.TransitionImpl
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.ModelResponse
org.activiti.rest.service.application.ActivitiRestServicesApplication
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.BaseModelResource
org.activiti.rest.editor.main.EditorRestResource
org.activiti.rest.editor.main.PluginRestResource
org.activiti.rest.editor.main.StencilsetRestResource
org.activiti.rest.common.api.DefaultResource
org.activiti.rest.common.filter.JsonpFilter
org.activiti.rest.diagram.application.DiagramServicesInit
org.activiti.rest.editor.application.ModelerServicesInit
org.activiti.rest.diagram.services.ProcessDefinitionDiagramLayoutResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.form.FormDataResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.DeploymentResourceCollectionResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.DeploymentResourceDataResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.DeploymentResourceResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.ModelSourceExtraResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.ModelSourceResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.ProcessDefinitionModelResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.ProcessDefinitionResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.repository.ProcessDefinitionResourceDataResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.process.ExecutionCollectionResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.process.ExecutionResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.process.ProcessInstanceResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.task.TaskIdentityLinkCollectionResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.task.TaskIdentityLinkFamilyResource
org.activiti.rest.service.api.runtime.task.TaskResource
org.activiti.rest.common.filter.RestAuthenticator

Thanks,

PM

salaboy
Senior Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Answers to your questions

1) If you are not ready for cloud, that is fine, you might want to migrate to 6.x then and then to 7.x. There was a big change between 5.x and 6.x but a lot of people when through that migration. 7.X is based on 6.x so you will face the some of the similar challenges. 

2) Same.. you need to look first at migrating at 6.x 

3) Rest Endpoints are not provided by the core library anymore.. because it is a core library, you can use Spring to expose the endpoints that you need.. Right now Endpoints are only provided in the cloud approach. 

jdp
Active Member

Re: Planing to upgrade Activiti 5.15, which is the latest stable one 6 or 7 ?

Hi All,

After analysis and internal testing we got to know that Activiti 7.0 does not support running workflows of Activiti 5.15. So will check for 5.15 to 6.0 first.