Hello, I’m currently studying the upgrade from Activiti 5.22 to Flowable 7. In our application, we used to embed the engine DDL within our own DDL scripts to create Activiti tables. In Flowable 7, the engine DDL found in the JAR file (under org/flowable/db/create) seems to be missing the creation s…

Hey @mpecheux , Those are in a different jar. They are in the flowable-engine-common jar in the org/flowable/common/db folder. You can also get them from the Flowable Distro zip (the artifact in the GitHub release) Cheers, Filip

Thank you for your answer. I need the scripts to be available in a JAR file, as we embed them using a Maven plugin. The scripts in the common JAR are global (i.e., they include both engine and history tables), which is not ideal since we don’t need the history tables. If there is no complete engin…

No there is no complete engine-only script in a JAR

Understood, but that’s not consistent with what is stated in the “Configuration” section of the documentation — i.e., that the tables required for engine execution are located in flowable-engine-x.jar/org/flowable/db/create/flowable.{db}.create.engine.sql. [image]

Missing CREATE orders in flowable.*.create.engine.sql

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filiphr September 24, 2025, 12:40pm 6

Seems like we need to update the documentation for that part. Things have changed quite a lot since Activity 5.22

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Missing CREATE orders in flowable.*.create.engine.sql

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