I have developed a Spring application and deployed the same in tomcat server. activiti engine and activiti rest resides in the same server. I have created a process in Activiti explorer and deployed the same in it. Using REST api i am submitting a form, completing a task from my spring application….. The changes which i do via spring rest is reflected in Activiti explorer.
My question is if i keep the same bpmn file in my application and use java api to submit a from, complete a task…etc. Will it reflect in activiti explorer or REST is the only way.
Any advantage of using java api over REST.