launching a customized bpmn glsp server from vscode

[chrisesposito4]

Hi,
I have a new customized version of the bpmn glsp server and metamodel that adds a few properties to BPMN elements. Per the instructions I've seen, I have a new GLSP ServerLauncher class, a new DiagramModule and a new class that extends org.openbpmn.extensions.AbstractBPMNElementExtension.

I have an existing installation in VS Code of the Open BPMN plugin, and I can see on disk where the existing server jar file snapshot is in the subdirectory for that plugin.

I've looked through some of the typescript / javascript code there to see if I can figure out where and how the existing BPMN2ServerLauncher main method is invoked but but it's not jumping out at me. As a result, I don't see how to specify my new launcher class (CWP_Verify_ServerLauncher) as the class to invoke. Since my new class also has it's own main() method, is removing the BPMN2ServerLauncher class enough, so there is only one main method?

Thanks,
Chris

[rsoika]

Hi @chrisesposito4

as you have already noticed the client and serer part a separate modules. And you can start the client with different servers. I guess this is what you are searching for. So first you should setup an simple local environment that allows you to start the client and server separately.
When you take a look into the bash script devi.sh you can see how we do provide different launch options:

https://github.com/imixs/open-bpmn/blob/master/devi

As you can see you can start the client without server ./devi.sh start-frontend
The client expects a running server. So only if a server is started the model plane will open a diagram.
You can also look into the .vscode/launch.json to see the launch configuration for vs-code

To see how a custom server part looks like you can take a look into the source code of imixs-open-bpmn. I assume that this is exactly the same you are trying with your custom implementation. Also here you can see the vs-code launch options https://github.com/imixs/imixs-open-bpmn/blob/main/.vscode/launch.json

So at the end if your server is starting on port 5007 your client will be able to connect.
The project https://github.com/imixs/open-bpmn-vscode-integration just ties together both components to get a VSX extension.

I hope this will help you to get things running.

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Ralph