Activiti engine intergation with custom user & group data table

Question

My company has their own database and it contains user and group tables.I am creating a workflow manager using Activiti API also i am using Activiti-REST. I need to fetch user data and group data from my company database instead of using ACT_ID _USER and ACT_ID_GROUP. I searched through internet and post in their forum but i didnt get any sensible answers.

In the forum they suggest to use LDAP but i dont have touch LDAP.

I went through activiti source.can i just modify its iBATIS mapping files related to ACT_ID _USER.Will it work. Or their any better approach. Also activiti-rest api must work according to our own tables.

Please can some one show some good references regarding to this.

Answer 1

you have to implement the interface org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.SessionFactory and return the type of org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.Session appropiate (org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.UserIdentityManager.class or org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.GroupIdentityManager.class), then you have to create your own User/Group Manager (usually extending the org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.UserEntityManager or org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.GroupEntityManager).

Finally you have to register your Custom Session Factories on your processEngineConfiguration, for more info (a little outdated because in 5.13 the session types changed) is available on this blog post