How to start a process using BPM API

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1. Create a class like the one below, containing a method for starting BPM process, using BPM Api

package <Package_Name>;



import java.net.URI;

import java.util.Map;

import java.util.Set;

import com.sap.bpm.api.BPMFactory;

import com.sap.bpm.pm.api.ProcessDefinition;

import com.sap.bpm.pm.api.ProcessDefinitionManager;

import com.sap.bpm.pm.api.ProcessStartEvent;

import com.sap.bpm.pm.api.ProcessStartManager;

import commonj.sdo.DataObject;

import commonj.sdo.Property;



public class ProcessStarter {



private ProcessDefinitionManager processDefinitionManager;

private ProcessDefinition processDefinition;

private ProcessStartManager processStartManager;

private Set<ProcessStartEvent> processStartEvents;

private ProcessStartEvent processStartEvent;

public ProcessStarter(String vendor, String dcName, String processTechnicalName) {

this.processDefinitionManager = BPMFactory.getProcessDefinitionManager();

this.processStartManager = BPMFactory.getProcessStartManager();

this.processDefinition = processDefinitionManager.getActiveProcessDefinition(vendor, dcName, processTechnicalName);



 }



public DataObject getProcessStartDataObject(){

this.processStartEvents = processStartManager.getProcessStartEvents(processDefinition.getId());

this.processStartEvent = processStartEvents.iterator().next();



 DataObject sdo = processStartManager.createDataObjectForStartEvent(this.processStartEvent); 



return sdo;

 }





public URI startProcess(DataObject dataObject) throws BPMProcessStartException{

try {

return processStartManager.startProcess(this.processStartEvent, dataObject);

 } catch (Exception e) {

throw new BPMProcessStartException("Could not start process: "+ e.getMessage() , e);

 }

 } 

}

2. Create an instance from the above class:

ProcessStarter starter = new ProcessStarter("<Vendor-Name>", "<DC-Name>", "<Process-Name>");

3. Set process input data:

DataObject startSDO = starter.getProcessStartDataObject();

DataObject processInput = startSDO.getDataObject("StartProcess");

 processInput.set("engDepartment",”VALUE”);

 processInput.set("itemNo", “VALUE”);

 processInput.set("orderNo", “VALUE”);



processInput.set("organization",”VALUE”);

 processInput.set("processType", “VALUE”);

 processInput.set("requestNo", “VALUE”);



processInput.set("requestorId", “VALUE”);

URI processInstanceId = starter.startProcess(startSDO);