State of CDI support in Axon Ivy 10 - how to execute code on engine startup?

mhoffmann

To hopefully keep it brief:

My goal is to automate the setup of the Designer for several projects which rely on dynamically created users and roles - my intention was to use a Bean annotated with @Singleton and a @PostConstruct init method, however, this did not work because the init method is never executed in the Designer which is probably due to the annotations being unsupported on this level of the Axon Ivy platform.

Is there any supported way to execute a method after the engine started from Java directly or is the situation still the same process as described here?

I also noted that editing dynamic roles / users within the designer is quite painful, because I don't have any interface for it other than the roles / users bound in the yaml files

Could you please provide any insight how to properly execute these maintenance steps on engine startup so I can automate this in the designer and therefore save a lot of time each time I have to test particular features? 🙂

Reto Weiss

CDI and @PostConstruct are not yet supported in Ivy 10 or Ivy 12.
We are currently working on migrating from JavaEE to JakartaEE 11 technology. Here, JakartaEE Faces (JSF) no longer supports @ManagedBean but uses CDI. Therefore, we might also support CDI in Axon Ivy 14.

To manage users and roles on an Axon Ivy Engine, you can use the following API: ivy.security

To execute code during the engine startup, you can use the start method of a start event bean.

mhoffmann

Reto Weiss
Hi Reto,
sounds like a good future though - if there's one thing missing in Axon Ivy, I'd say it's CDI. We circumvented this by using a lot of static methods which works fine and without any issue but being able to do a cleaner architecture which is comparable to my common EE stack is great 🙂

Also thanks for the additional information, I'll give it a try the following days!