Mastering jBPM6

Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781783289585
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencia de la computación
• Subtopic: Desarrollo de aplicaciones

About This Book

• Customize and extend the jBPM tools to integrate them into your existing solution/technology architecture
• Understand the core components of jBPM, including topics such as KIE API, RuntimeManager, KieSession, and KieBase
• Follow real-world illustrations that will help you achieve objectives using screenshots and code snippets

Who This Book Is 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.

Mastering jBPM6

---

Table of Contents

Mastering jBPM6

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Business Process Modeling – Bridging Business and Technology

Business process management

Human interaction management

Business activity monitoring

Business process simulation

The business process model and notation

Core elements

Flow Objects

Data

Connecting Objects

Swimlanes

Artifacts

Business process management as applied in industry

Supply chain management

Banking and financial services

Design patterns in business process modeling

Sequence

Parallel split

Synchronization

Simple merge

Exclusive choice

Implicit termination

Deferred choice

Multiple instance without synchronization

Synchronized merge

Arbitrary cycle

Introducing jBPM

The KIE workbench

Process Designer

Operation management

Eclipse tooling

Core engine

The knowledge repository

The business logic integration platform

Drools Guvnor

Drools Expert

Drools Fusion

Working together

Summary

2. Building Your First BPM Application

Installing the jBPM tool stack

Customizing the installation

Changing the database vendor

Manually installing the database schema

Creating your first jBPM project

Business Process Modeling

Building and deploying the project

Running your first process

Embedding jBPM in a standalone Java application

Modeling the business process using Eclipse tooling

Creating a jBPM project using Eclipse

Deploying the process programmatically

Writing automated test cases

Change management – updating deployed process definitions

Summary

3. Working with the Process Designer

Web-based tooling

Process modeling

The Object Library

The process canvas

Properties editor

Toolbar

Problem visualization

The Metadata tab

Data object modeling

Form modeling

Creating a form

Setting the field properties

Setting a default value

Inferring field values

Subforms

Multiple subforms

Process simulation

Process paths

Simulation parameters

Process-level parameters

Task-level parameters

Flow element parameters

Running simulation

Simulation results

Eclipse-based tooling

Importing a project created using web-based tooling

Process modeling

Data object modeling

Form modeling

Process simulation

Saving changes to the knowledge repository

Summary

4. Operation Management

An overview of the KIE workbench, Git, and Maven

Working with Git

Cloning a remote repository

Making changes and committing

Pushing to the remote repository

New repository

Managing assets – managed repositories

Governance workflow

Git cloning and managed repository

Asset management example

Promoting assets

Releasing

Building (single project)

Asset versioning history

Managed repository and Maven

Governance process definitions

A final note

An overview of the kie-config-cli tool

Connecting (online mode)

Creating an organizational unit

Creating a repository

Defining role-based access control rules

Adding jBPM console users

Adding the repository to an organization

Pushing changes to system.git

More on the system.git repository

KIE deployments

Artifacts and KIE modules

Deployment options

Deployment by example – the Pizza projects

The process definition – pizzadelivery

Deploying pizzas

Git and project configuration

Deploying the dependency

Providing artifacts

Deploying

Adding a KIE module manually

Process and task management applied – the PizzaDelivery process

Starting the Process

Undeployment

User management

Task management

Managing jobs and asynchronous commands' execution

Creating, scheduling, and launching a new Job

Process definition conversion

Process definition versioning and instance upgrading

BAM

BPM and BAM

Default history logs

BAM and Dashbuilder – the pizza maker's performance index

Example projects

Configuring persistence

Generating audit data – ProcessBAM unit test

Writing the business query

Adding the data provider

Creating a new dashboard page and the KPI panels

Notes

Summary

5. BPMN Constructs

Parameters, variables, and data

Sequence flow

Gateways

Parallel (AND) gateway

Conditional branching

Drools

Exclusive (XOR) gateway

Inclusive (OR) gateway

Event-based gateways

Instantiating gateway

Complex gateway

Events

Start events

None Start event

End events

(None) End event

Terminate End event

Boundary events

Signal events

Scope

Signal ID and signal name tips

Signal data mapping

Start Signal event

Intermediate Signal event

Boundary Signal event

End Signal event

Message events

Message data mapping

Start Message event

Intermediate Message event

Boundary Message event

End Message event

jBPM throwing messag...

Table of contents

• Mastering jBPM6