Invoke process from string value

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to create a monitoring process that should monitor a mailbox. This monitoring process should look in the subject of the individual mails and by the subject determine which action to take (which underlying process) that should be invoked.
So if subject is "Process1" then the monitoring process ahould invoke "Process1".
EIther I see the possiblilty of dropping the form (attached to the email) into a predefined watched folder with the name "Process1" or calling the appropriate process by creating my own code for the EJB-endpoint (or SOAP?). However I don't knwo which solution is the easiest. I don't want to manually create 50 unique folders if using the EJB endpoint is simple.
Does anyone of you have an obvious solution (which I might have overlooked) or just some comments/pointers for which/where to go from here they would be highly appreciated.
Sincerely
Kim

Answer 1

I get it now.
I would suggest to use the EJB to invoke LiveCycle. Like you mentioned, you should be able to create a generic function that takes the name of the process as an input parameter and then you call that process using a generic call (if the input/output parameters are the same).
This is an example:
public InvocationResponse InvokeShortLived(String service, String operation, Map parameters){
try {
// Create a ServiceClient object
ServiceClient myServiceClient = _factory.getServiceClient();
InvocationRequest request = _factory.createInvocationRequest(
service, // Specify the short-lived process name
operation, // Specify the operation name
null, // Specify input values
false); // Create a synchronous request
// Send the Invocation request to the short-lived process and
// get back an InvocationResponse object
InvocationResponse response = myServiceClient.invoke(request);
response.getOutputParameter("result");
eturn response;
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(" ERROR -> " + ex.getMessage());
ex.printStackTrace();
return null;
Jasmin