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Mastering jBPM 5

Mastering jBPM 5: Design, build, and deploy business process-centric applications using the cutting-edge jBPM technology stack

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Mastering jBPM 5

Chapter 2. Building Your First BPM Application

Let us now build our first BPM application by using the jBPM tool stack. This chapter will guide you through the following topics:

  • Installing the jBPM tool stack
  • Hacking the default installation configurations
  • Modeling and deploying a jBPM project
  • Embedding jBPM inside a standalone Java project

A step towards the goal of this book, the chapter gives you the hands-on flexibility of the jBPM tool stack and provides information on hacking the configuration and playing around.

Installing the jBPM tool stack

A jBPM release comes with an installation zip file, which contains the essentials for the jBPM environment and tools for building a demo runtime for easy hands-on management of the jBPM runtime environment.

For downloading jBPM:

  1. Go to http://jboss.org/jbpm | Download | Download jBPM 6.2.0.Final | jbpm-6.2.0.Final-installer-full.zip.

    Use the latest stable version. The content of the book follows the 6.2.0 release.

  2. Unzip and extract the installer content and you will find an install.html file that contains the helper documentation for installing a demo jBPM runtime with inbuilt projects.

Note

jBPM installation needs JDK 1.6+ to be installed and set as JAVA_HOME and the tooling for installation is done using ANT scripts (ANT version 1.7+).

The tooling for installation is basically an ANT script, which is a straightforward method for installation and can be customized easily. To operate the tooling, the ANT script consists of the ANT targets that act as the commands...

Creating your first jBPM project

jBPM provides a very structured way of creating a project. The structure considers application creation and maintenance for large organizations with multiple departments. This structure is recommended for use as it is a clean and secure way of manning the business process artifacts. The following image details the organization of a project in jBPM web tooling (or the Kie workbench).

Creating your first jBPM project

The jBPM workbench comes with an assumption of one business process management suite for an organization. An organization can have multiple organization units, which will internally contain multiple projects and form the root of the project, and as the name implies, it represents a fraction of an organization. This categorization can be visualized in any business organization and is sometimes referred as departments. In an ideal categorization, these organization units will be functionally different and thus, will contain different business processes. Using the workbench, we can...

Embedding jBPM in a standalone Java application

The core engine of jBPM is a set of lightweight libraries, which can be embedded in any Java standalone application. This gives the enterprise architects the flexibility to include jBPM inside their existing application and leverage the functionalities of BPM.

This section will cover how to programmatically start the runtime engine and start a process instance, and will guide you in writing automated tests for BPMN processes.

Modeling the business process using Eclipse tooling

Upon running the installation script, jBPM installs the web tooling as well as the Eclipse tooling. The Eclipse tooling basically consists of the following:

  • jBPM project wizard: It helps you to create a jBPM project easily
  • jBPM runtime: An easy way of choosing the jBPM runtime version; this associates a set of libraries for the particular version of jBPM to the project
  • BPMN Modeler: It is used to model the BPMN process
  • Drools plugin: It gives you the debugging and operation...

Change management – updating deployed process definitions

We have modeled a business process and deployed it; the application end users will create process instances and fulfill their goals by using the business process. Now, as the organization evolves, we need a change in the process; for example, the organization has decided to add one more department. Therefore, we have to update the associated business processes.

Technically, in jBPM, we cannot have an update in an already deployed process definition; we need to have a workaround. jBPM suggests three strategies for a process migration.

  • Proceed: We will introduce the new process definition and retire the old definition. Retiring should be taken care of by the application so that all process instance calls for the process are redirected to the new process definition.
  • Abort: The existing process is aborted, and we can restart the process instance with the updated process definition. We have to be very careful in this approach if the...

Summary

This chapter would have given you the "Hello world" hands-on experience in jBPM. With your jBPM installation ready, we can now dive deep into the details of the functional components of jBPM.

With this chapter, we have come to an end to the introductory chapters of Mastering jBPM. In the upcoming chapters, we will discuss the process designer, operation management, and core engine architecture in detail.

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If you are a designer or developer who wants to build and operate business process-centric applications, then this book is for you. Knowledge of the basic concepts of application development in Java will be helpful in following the concepts covered in the book, but is not necessary.

Who is this book for?

If you are a designer or developer who wants to build and operate business process-centric applications, then this book is for you. Knowledge of the basic concepts of application development in Java will be helpful in following the concepts covered in the book, but is not necessary.

What you will learn

  • Understand the jBPM tool stack and business process management systems, the standards, patterns, and use cases
  • Build your first BPM application using the jBPM tool stack
  • Monitor and manage the daily operations of business processcentric applications
  • Get a detailed explanation of all the BPMN constructs supported by jBPM
  • Understand the core architecture of jBPM
  • Learn about the extension points and pluggable mechanisms which would help you to extend jBPM core
  • Enhance your application with business process management functionalities by integrating jBPM into your existing application portfolio
  • Configure the jBPMbased application to meet the nonfunctional requirements in production
  • Integrate jBPM to the JEE, SOA, and EDA environments to use its capabilities
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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
1. Business Process Modeling – Bridging Business and Technology Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Building Your First BPM Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Working with the Process Designer Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Operation Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. BPMN Constructs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Core Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Customizing and Extending jBPM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Integrating jBPM with Enterprise Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. jBPM in Production Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A. The Future Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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jBPM 6 consists of many components, many APIs and many use cases. This book has a good amount of coverage with commands and examples. Also sometimes going deep about internals and the relationship between components so that users can have confidence in their application development.Highlights:- Various workbench git use cases- Explanation of various KIE APIs including internal insights- Detailed Gateway usages
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Short version:An excellent book for developers trying to learn BPMN2-driven applications based on jBPM6.It walks the readers through the principles of BPMN2, the authoring tools, the architecture of the runtime platform and its integration patterns, all with simple and focused examples. The material is organized in a clear and incremental way and encourages the reader to practice with code and models.Longer version:First of all, this is a book for developers approaching Business Process driven applications and jBPM for the first time.It is an excellent guide that will take you from a simple "hello world" application to an insight into large scale, production-ready architectures. In the process, the book describes the authoring tools integrated with jBPM and its underlying process management and execution architecture. It complements the online KIE and jBPM documentation nicely, providing a more pragmatic perspective. Given the substantial changes between the 5.x and 6.x architecture, is valuable to assist users trying to learn or transition to the new model.More in detail:Chapter 1 provides an overview of BPMN2 and its use in applications running on the KIE platform.Chapter 2 walks the reader through a "hello world" application.Chapter 3 and 4 describe the authoring and management tools.Chapter 5 provides an essential introduction to BPMN2.Chapter 6 and 7 describe the KIE and jBPM internal architecture.Chapter 8 and 9 focus on integration patterns for enterprise-level applications.As a side note, if you are trying to learn BPMN2, if you are interested in the best design and modelling patterns for a specific business domain or if you are a seasoned BP expert trying to build complex large scale applications, this is probably not the best book for you.
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Could have been a good book if the author would correct errors at least in a supplemental website. Alas, there are several that are blockers that the reader will have to figure out on there own. For an expensive book one would expect better author support.
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a lot of superficial information, and key items like implementation of bpm rules tasks, or gateways (exclusive, inclusive, parallel) are each dealt either in one paragraph or referring to supposedly downloadable code examples. By the way, you have to subscribe monthly to packt.com to be able to download said code examples.Also, absolutely dated since the last edition is from 2015, version 6, and we're now on version 7.73.AVOID AT ALL COSTS. what a waste of my $62 dollars.
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