title: How to initiate a workflow in Activiti using REST API
body: <p>I have created a Activit Process using Service Tasks etc with eclipse and deployed the .bar to Activiti which is running on tomcat. It was successfully deployed I can start my process using activiti-explorer without any issue. The deployed process name is "My process" and it is listed under Processes->Deployed Process Definitions in the Activiti-Explorer as well. In the diagram it has the name "myProcess:1:1473"</p>
  
  <p>But I have two questions.</p>
  
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  <li>I need to start my process using REST call. (i.e. Without using Activiti-explorer) . What is the URL for that? I tried several variations of (<a href="http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/runtime/process-instances" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/runtime/process-instances</a>) but none of them working.</li>
  <li>When I restart the tomcat my process instance is not shown in the Activit -explorer. Each time I restart I need to redeploy the process .bar file. Is that the natural behavior of the engine?</li>
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