# JSON REST Api / IBM BPM

**URL:** <https://forum.flowable.org/t/json-rest-api-ibm-bpm/2097>\
**Category:** Flowable Engine\
**Created:** [June 6, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/json-rest-api-ibm-bpm/2097 "2018-06-06T09:16:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![crowek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@crowek](https://forum.flowable.org/u/crowek)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/json-rest-api-ibm-bpm/2097/1 "2018-06-06T09:16:29Z")

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Hi,  
We have IIB 9 advanced, and IBM BPM 8.5 standard, and we have a requirement to initiate a BPM workflow instance as part of a IIB message flow. Following is my understanding :

1. I can’t use he SCA nodes as I have BPM Standard
2. I can use REST Api, but for this I need to make a JSON message. The message flow is triggered via a Soap call , which is modelled in the XMLNSC domain, since JSON message models are not supported, I can’t use the mapping nodes. What is the conventional way to deal with such scenario? Create the JSON using ESQL? the payload is pretty bit, around 400 elements, this will be a pretty big esql compute… Is there some other way?

Please help.

I didn’t find the right solution from the Internet.

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Thanks!