jBPM 5.3 brings LDAP into the picture
jBPM engine itself does not require to have knowledge about users and groups but to build more complete platform based on it sooner or later users and their memberships will be needed. Prior to version...
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Self managable user tasks - notification and reassignment
As a continuation of the first post, let's try to make use of LDAP configuration to make actors aware of the tasks awaiting their attention.Human task service is capable of reacting on certain events...
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JUDCon2012 - Boston
JUDCon 2012 in Boston was a great place to meet with fellow developers and discuss about future of jBPM. I had a pleasure to give a talk about experimental project that I have been working on for quite...
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Service Task with web service implementation
Invocation of web services as part of business process is common and most likely because of that default implementation of Service Task in BPMN2 specification is web service. Recently (5.4) jBPM5 has...
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Simulation in jBPM (draft)
Recently some work has been started to provide simulation capabilities for jBPM. Simulation in many cases means different things to various people so let me start with context information on what...
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jBPM5 Developer Guide book is on its way!!!
For those that keep an eye on jBPM user forum it won't be any surprise as it was already announced and sometime ago even request for comments was posted. So, I would like to emphasise once again - a...
View ArticleDispose session in CMT environment
Since jBPM5 is flexible process engine it can be deployed in various flavours. One of them is to embed it into you enterprise application running on application server, regardless of its vendor (JBoss,...
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jBPM web designer runs on VFS
As part of efforts for jBPM and Drools version 6.0 web designer is going through quite few enhancements too. One of the major features is to provide flexible mechanism to persist modeled processes (and...
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Clustering in jBPM v6
Clustering in jBPM v5 was not an easy task, there where several known issues that had to be resolved on client (project that was implementing solution with jBPM) side, to name few:session management -...
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Make your work asynchronous
Asynchronous execution as part of a business process is common requirement. jBPM has had support for it via custom implementation of WorkItemHandler. In general it was as simple as providing async...
View ArticlejBPM6 samples with RuntimeManager
jBPM6 introduces new module - jbpm-runtime-manager - that aims at significantly simplify management of:KnowledgeBase (KieBase)KnowledgeSession (KieSession)Moreover it allows to use predefined...
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jBPM empowers Magnolia CMS
I am glad to inform that Magnolia CMS uses jBPM 5 as their default work flow engine in version 5. Just two weeks ago I had a pleasure to talk about jBPM (both v5 and v6) at Magnolia conference in...
View ArticlejBPM 6 workshops
I would like to inform that there will be some workshops regarding upcoming jBPM version 6 where you can gather some insight into what's in it for you.There are currently two workshops scheduled:12 of...
View ArticlejBPM 6 first steps
This post is about to give a very quick introduction to how users can take their first steps in jBPM 6. Using completely web tooling to build up:processesrulesprocess and task formsdata modelWith just...
View ArticlejBPM 6 with spring
As some of you might noticed jBPM got quite few improvements for version 6.0, to just name few:RuntimeManagerenhanced timer servicenew deployment model - based on kjar and mavenbrand new tooling see...
View Articlehow to deploy processes in jBPM 6?
After release of 6.0 of jBPM, there were number of questions coming from community about how processes can be deployed into the new and shiny jbpm console?So let's start with short recap on how the...
View ArticlejBPM 6 - store your process variables anywhere
Most of jBPM users is aware of how jBPM stores process variable but let's recap it here again just for completeness.NOTE: this article covers jBPM that uses persistence as without persistence process...
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Reuse your business assets with jBPM 6
As described in the article about deployment model in jBPM 6, business assets are included in so called knowledge archives - kjars. Kjar is nothing more than regular jar file with knowledge descriptor...
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jBPM 6 on WebSphere - installation notes...
Brand new tooling for jBPM 6 is out for a while now and it was mainly targeting the open source world so by default it was deployable to JBoss AS 7.x / JBoss EAP 6.x and Tomcat 7. Now it's time to...
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Let's WildFly with jBPM6
Let's go into the Wild....It's been a while since JBoss AS7 as community was released and that's the default server used by jBPM in community distribution - when using jbpm installer but not only...
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