jBPM6 Showcase: jBPM Console - Hiring Process

Salaboy has written a blog about the new jBPM Console in jBPM6.  He uses the "Hiring Process" (which is package out-of-the-box as one of the examples in the jbpm-playground repository) as an example and takes you modelling, deploying and executing the process. 

Since the process contains a few user tasks, it also shows how end users can use the task list to see their tasks and use task forms to provide the necessary input.

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You can find the full blog here.

Webinar: Getting started with business activity monitoring (October 24th)

The upcoming Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6 will include new business activity monitoring (BAM) capabilities. Join our webinar to learn how analysts and process owners can increase efficiency with better monitoring of the processes, tasks, orders, and more that make a business run.

During the session, we will discuss:

• How business analysts can build rich interactive business dashboards by configuration
• How end users can work with the reports created.
• Product architecture and connectivity.

Speakers:
Pedro Zapata Fernandez, engineering manager, Red Hat
Pedro Zapata joined Red hat in 2012 with the acquisition of Polymita. He has 12 years of experience in enterprise software, working as product manager for Polymita's BPMS platform for the last 7 years.

Luis I. Cortes, senior manager of product marketing, Red Hat
Luis has 12 years of experience in enterprise software. He joined Red Hat in 2012 with the acquisition of Polymita, which he co-founded, leading and growing the company as vice president of marketing and sales. He is passionate about technology and entrepreneurship and the impact that both have on organizations, society, and our lives as individuals.



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Free jBPM6 workshop in London, 23rd and 24th of October

I would like to invite everyone to a couple of developer-oriented workshops about the tools in the newest Drools and jBPM releases (6 series). The main idea of these workshops is to introduce developers to the new set of features and tooling provided by the projects.

Michael Anstis and Mauricio Salatino (Salaboy) will be showing how to configure and set up your working environment to work, customize and contribute to these projects.

We will be trying to cover the following topics:

• General Overview about the tools
• Distributions and Modules
• Technology Stack
• How to setup your working environment
• How to extend/customize the tooling

They actually released a teaser example as well, a process used to manage requirements in a sprint:



If you are brave enough and want to know the low level technical details of the tooling, please bring your laptop and be prepared to download the code and compile it in your own environment. We will assist you in the process and give you all the pointers to fix issues or provide new features.

Michael will be in charge of the Drools Side of the platform and Salaboy will be in charge of the BPM side of the tooling. If you are planning to start using these tools, we encourage you to attend to see the new features and get a high level overview about all the new things that are coming with the new version.

The place and the coffee will be sponsored by Plug Tree and the workshops will take place on the 23rd and 24th of October at No. 1 Poultry, London, EC2R 8JR From 3pm to 5pm+.   

Seats are very limited, and because the workshops are for free you will need to get in touch with us (salaboy at redhat dot com) if you are planning to attend. We will probably send you details of what you need to download before coming to the workshop so as not to depend on the local internet connection.

jBPM empowers Magnolia CMS

Maciej reported in his blog 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 Basel, Switzerland. This was a great event that I recommend everyone that is interested in CMS.

Together with Espen from Magnolia team, we made a really nice presentation about both jBPM and Magnolia Workflow that utilizes jBPM.

Here you can find the presentation:

jBPM6 Showcase: web-based jBPM console

This blog is part of a series showcasing jBPM6.  The goal of this blog is to introduce the jBPM console.

The jBPM console, our web-based management console (where you can start new process instances, complete your task list, etc.) has been redesigned completely.  There is now one web application supporting you through the entire life cycle of your business processes (and possibly other artefacts like your data models, forms, business rules, etc.).

 

 

The life cycle starts by authoring your business processes and deploying them.  You can also manage your process running process instances (or start new ones) and manage your task list.  Finally, dashboards can give you an overview of the entire system, where you can drill down into the details whenever necessary.

 

The following screencast gives you a quick overview of how to get started and run your first process.  Click on the image below to watch the screencast.

 

 

 

If you have used the jBPM installer to set up and start your environment on your local file system (see jBPM6 Showcase: getting started with the jBPM installer), you can try the same yourself! Simply navigate to http://localhost:8080/jbpm-console and log in using krisv/krisv.  This screencast uses one of the sample projects that are provided out-of-the-box as part of the jBPM playground repository (a repository that contains various sample projects that is automatically installed locally by the jBPM installer for you to play with). 

 

It uses a simple Evaluation process where a user can start a performance evaluation, where he first needs to perform a self-evaluation (which will show up as a task on his task list), after which his project manager and his human resource manager need to perform a similar evaluation.

 

The tooling is based on UberFire, which provides a configurable and pluggable web-based workspace.

What to do if I encounter problems or have questions?

 

You can always contact the jBPM community for assistance:

• IRC channel #jbpm at chat.freenode.net (you can use http://webchat.freenode.net)
• jBPM User Forum
• JIRA for bugs and feature requests

jBPM6 Showcase: getting started with the jBPM installer

This blog is part of a series showcasing jBPM6.  The goal of this blog is to help you downloading, installing and running the jbpm-installer, which will help you installing a demo setup (including the core engine, the web console, the eclipse tooling, etc.) on your local machine.

 

Step1: Download the installer

 

First of all, you need to download the installer. There are two versions, a full installer (which already contains a lot of the dependencies that are necessary during the installation) and a minimal installer (which only contains the installer and will download all dependencies). In general, it is probably best to download the full installer: jBPM-{version}-installer-full.zip

 

Step 2: Installation

 

The installer creates a demo setup, which includes the core engine, the web console (deployed on JBoss AS7), the eclipse tooling, etc.  It also contains a small example that you can use to run through each of the components.

Note: This install script assumes you have Java JDK 1.6+ (set as JAVA_HOME), and Apache Ant 1.7+ installed. If you don't, use the following links to download and install Java and/or Apache Ant.

The easiest way to get started is to simply run the installation script to install the entire demo setup.  Open a command prompt, go into the install folder where you unzipped the installer and run the following command:

 

ant install.demo

 

This will:

• Install JBoss AS7
• Download Eclipse
• Install jbpm-console war into AS
• Install the Drools & jBPM Eclipse plugin
• Install the Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler

 

When you run the installer for the first time, this could take some time (we are downloading an Eclipse installation specifically for your OS), so go and grab a cup of coffee now ;)

Note: The install script also allows you to use JBoss EAP 6.1 instead of  JBoss AS7, install the Eclipse plugins into an existing Eclipse installation, change the persistence configuration or authentication and authorization, etc. but that is outside the scope of this showcase.

Step 3: Starting up

Once the demo setup has finished, you can start playing with the various components by starting the demo setup:

ant start.demo

 

This will:

• Start the H2 database (which is used by default for storing all runtime information)
• Start the AS
• Start Eclipse

 

If everything went smoothly, your Eclipse application should have started up, and you should be able to open the web console by opening your web browser and navigating to:

http://localhost:8080/jbpm-console

Note that it could take a minute to start up the AS and web application.  If the web page doesn't show up after a while, make sure you don't have a firewall blocking that port, or another application already using the port 8080.  You can always take a look at the server log jbpm-installer/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/standalone/log/server.log

In one of my next showcase blogs, I'll show you how to get started with the web application and Eclipse tooling.

 

If you also want to try out the dashboard builder (a monitoring web application to visualizate, customize and/or create various dashboards, reports and charts), with some default charts for monitoring your process instances, now execute (which will deploy the application so you can access it through the links in the jbpm-console):

 

ant install.dashboard.into.jboss

 

When you're done playing, simply close the Eclipse application, and run the following command to shut down the AS and H2 database:

 

ant stop.demo

 

What to do if I encounter problems or have questions?

 

You can always contact the jBPM community for assistance:

• IRC channel #jbpm at chat.freenode.net (you can use http://webchat.freenode.net)
• jBPM User Forum
• JIRA for bugs and feature requests

jBPM 6.0.0.CR2 available

We just put out our second release candidate for the jBPM 6.0 release.  All the components are feature complete and we're working on solving the last remaining issues.  So now is a good time to check out what's coming and give feedback on some of the new features or issues you may encounter.

 

You can download the (full) installer from the download pages or get the artefacts from the JBoss Maven repo.

 

The getting started documentation should help you running the installer and starting your first process in the jBPM web console and/or Eclipse tools.

 

To highlight some of the new features and components, I'll start doing regular blogs showcasing a particular component, feature, example, etc. in the next few weeks!

 

 

Like for example:

• getting started with the jbpm-installer
• web-based jBPM console (for managing process instances and tasks)
• the improved jbpm-designer (for modeling and simulating your business processes)
• the graphical form modeler (for creating human task and process forms)
• the data modeler (for creating data models)
• the Guvnor workbench (for building and deploying)
• the dashboard builder (for monitoring, dashboards and charts)
• the remote apis (REST, JMS, Java client)
• the updated Eclipse plugins

 In case you have any questions or feedback, you can contact us through the usual channels (irc, forum, JIRA, etc.).