Invoke a workflow from shared engine to stand alone workflow

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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Is it possible to invoke a workflows which are deployed as independent embedded workflow other than using rest api,

I have a requirement to call workflows in parallel which are deployed as standalone

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Can you explain what you mean by this?
In general if you deploy processes to the same engine the engine can switch between them. Meaning that if you where to deploy 2 different processes independently via the REST API you can still start one processes from the other.,

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Thanks, i mean each process is a standalone spring boot application, but it is a shared database so is there any other way to invoke workflows other than rest api

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Whether the database is shared or not makes no difference in this case. You can start workflows in any way you would like by offering an interface on your Spring Boot service containing the process to start. The easiest way to do that is probably to use the Java API in the target service to start a process and then have the interface to that service be triggered whichever way you need, through a custom REST endpoint, a SOAP endpoint, a messaging solution, based on files…