Global Activity to use while using PAPI

Question

Hi,
I want to create an instance by adding PAPI code to a web-service or by exposing my process as a web-service. Which Global Activity do we use while creating an instance using PAPI ? Is it Global Automatic or Global Creation?

Answer 1

Hi,
You can create a new work item instance in a process using (1) PAPI (the Java API) or (2) PAPI-WS (the web service API) or (3) the process specific web service running on the Engine's port 9000. When you do this, the work item instance goes directly into the Begin activity of the process. Once there the work item instance is created and is automatically routed to the first activity in the process.
There are many reasons for using Global Interactive and Global Automatic activities in a process but you do not need to use a Global Interactive or Global Automatic activity when creating instances using any of these 3 APIs.
Once an instance is created using any of these 3 APIs, the work item instance immediately and automatically flows to the next activity in the process downstream of the Begin activity.
Dan