SkyVault provides the Activiti workflow engine out of the box, which lets solution developers model business processes around content. Workflow provides you with the ability to design lifecycle management around your content.
A process definition is written in BPMN 2.0 and bootstrapped into the SkyVault repository at startup by a separate Spring bean. Along with the process definition, the Spring bean can also optionally bootstrap a workflow content model as well as any I18N resource bundles (properties files) to support localization. SkyVault provides the Activiti workflow engine out of the box for modeling business processes around content.
Here is a sample process definition that defines a content lifecycle.
The lifecycle-workflow-context.xml file defines the Spring bean that bootstraps the three other files into the repository:
<?xml version=’1.0’ encoding=’UTF-8’?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC ‘-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN’ ‘http://www.springframework.org/
dtd/spring-beans.dtd’>
<beans>
<bean id="lifecycle.workflowBootstrap" parent="workflowDeployer">
<property name="workflowDefinitions">
<list>
<props>
<prop key="engineId">activiti</prop>
<prop key="location">
SkyVault/extension/lifecycle_processdefinition.xml
</prop>
<prop key="mimetype">text/xml</prop>
<prop key="redeploy">false</prop>
</props>
</list>
</property>
<property name="models">
<list>
<value>alfresco/extension/lifecycleModel.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="labels">
<list>
<value>alfresco/extension/lifecycle-messages</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>