.bar or .zip? Which format for the application is going to be used in future?

Flowable Application
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.bar or .zip? Which format for the application is going to be used in future?

It seems .bar is easier to use.

Which format do you plan to keep in the long run?

Thanks,
–MG

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Hi,

Like explained in the user guide, the .bar extension is used by the Flowable Engine to deploy multiple artefacts together in one deployment. We don’t have plans to change that. In the Flowable Modeler there’s also a zip export of an app definition, but that’s only to exchange app definitions between different environments.

Best regards,

Tijs

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Can .bar file include java classes of spring beans?

Thanks

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How do I upload created .bar file into process engine?
Thanks

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Through the UI you can do it through the Task app or Admin app:

http://www.flowable.org/docs/userguides/userguide/index.html#flowableTaskApp

http://www.flowable.org/docs/userguides/userguide/index.html#flowableAdminApp

But any JARs are not deployed from the BAR. There’s some details on BARs here:
http://www.flowable.org/docs/userguides/userguide/index.html#_business_archives

Cheers
Paul.

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Why can’t I deploy .bar file into modeler first?
Without that feature .bar files seem more limited than .zip

Thanks