Simple data entry process

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Hello,

I’m looking for a lean solution for a simple data entry process. Think of weekly manually entering the reading of my electricity meter. I want the result to be stored into a DBMS in the end.

I’m familiar with Apache Camel and Karaf and looking for a solution without creating and deploying a Java application. At best there could be some Groovy involved, maybe embedded within a Camel route or a Karaf OSGi Blueprint.

For now I’ve found no way to link Camunda alone to a DB without creating Java code, correct? Thus I assume that it could be a possible approach to create a user task to enter form data (via the task list application) and then invoke a service or script task. Camel could implement the persistence layer from my point of view. Any hints on that?

Regarding the Camel integration I’ve found the contribution https://github.com/camunda/camunda-bpm-camel – can anyone comment if this thing is still alive?

Thanks,
mdo

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@mdo if lean is your goal, I would be looking at using a DBMS that is exposed as a Rest Web Service and using a Service Task and the HTTP-Connector to push data into your Database.

Here is a simple example that lets you build your data model through a UI: http://deployd.com

In just a few minutes you can deploy a Process that captures data through an Embedded Form and push the data through REST into your Database.

few links for reference:

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