Starting a long running business process using EJB API in WebSphere Process Server

We can start a long running business process in WebSphere process server either by using Web service API or by using EJB API. To start a process using EJB API, the only parameter we need is the process name. The code for the same is given below.

javax.naming.InitialContext context = new javax.naming.InitialContext();
Object result = context.lookup("com/ibm/bpe/api/BusinessFlowManagerHome");
BusinessFlowManagerHome processHome  = (BusinessFlowManagerHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(result,BusinessFlowManagerHome.class);
BusinessFlowManager process = processHome.create();

ProcessTemplateData templateData = process.getProcessTemplate(<processName>);
String inputTypeName = templateData.getInputMessageTypeName();

String processId = templateData.getID().toString();

ClientObjectWrapper inputCOW = process.createMessage(templateData.getID(), inputTypeName);
DataObject inputDO = (DataObject) inputCOW.getObject();
DataObject data = inputDO.createDataObject("requestData");

data.setString("name", "Albin");
data.setString("city", "Bangalore");
data.setString("zip", "123456");

PIID pid = process.initiate(templateData.getName(),processName+"-"+System.currentTimeMillis(), inputCOW);

System.out.println("Process started with PID : "+pid);

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