build workflow engine with Akka

scala playframework akka activiti camunda
user2066049 picture user2066049 · Sep 30, 2014 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

In our Scala/Play application we use activiti. (also experimenting with camunda) users can create workflows (shown in this picture http://camunda.com/ ). All calls to these external workflow engines are wrapped in Scala Future (activiti and camunda APIs are all Java blocking APIs).

is there any library to implement workflows totally using Akka/Actors avoiding heavy toolkits like activiti/camunda? Or ideas how to best use Akka with activiti/camunda ?

Answer

user4097248 picture user4097248 · Oct 1, 2014

You could try and use the Akka FSM dsl to do the same bypassing activity and also blocking apis. see http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/fsm.html

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