Friday, June 29, 2012

jBPM support in BRMS 5.3

Last Monday, Red Hat announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.3. BRMS 5.3 adds support for jBPM, so that means you can get official support from JBoss for your business processes now.  BRMS 5.3 has support for business processes (jBPM), business rules (Drools Expert) and complex event processing (Drools Fusion) in one integrated solution.

Over the last few months, we went through the productization process to strengthen and harden the community code, and we've been working with a set of early access customers to gather additional feedback.

With BRMS 5.3, you can buy multi-year support subscriptions and professional services, such as training and on-site consultancy.  This provides you with the stability and support often required in production.

If you're interested in reading more about the difference between community and product, Mark wrote a more detailed blog about it a while ago.

All details, like the supported features and platforms, product details, etc. are available on the JBoss Enterprise BRMS product page.

We're very happy (and proud) that jBPM5 now made it into the supported product.



Saturday, June 23, 2012

Thanks NY and DC, Boston here we come!

The New York and Washington workshops this week were completely sold out, and every seat was taken (some of the core team members even gave up their chair).

Thank you all for all the questions and feedback!


Next week we're all in Boston, for JUDCon and JBossWorld, looking forward to a lot more of this !

Thursday, June 7, 2012

jBPM workshop June 21st Washington DC

As promised, the invitation for the workshop in Washington DC on June 21st.
 


JBoss BRMS (Drools and jBPM) Workshop
 
Have you ever wondered how or why you could use a Business Rules Management System to respond to economic and regulatory changes more quickly? Are you concerned about the effects of embedding key operational functions deep within applications, which make them difficult to change? Do your coders slow down your ability to keep up with changes or requests from your organization's leaders and analysts?

If these issues affect you on a day to day basis as either a coder, architect, or department or agency leader, these presentations and hands-on labs will greatly expand your knowledge about when, where, and how to employ the rules to solve the above-mentioned problems. JBoss Business Rules Management System has many uses in government including eligibility, determination, resource planning, budgeting, and more.

Join us for this complimentary one-day event where we will cover:
  • The ecosystem that encompasses the Drools open source project and the JBoss BRMS
  • Benefits of rules systems, business workflows, and specific challenges to the government
  • The history of rules systems, where they are going, and how it can impact your agency
  • Various features of the BRMS via a hands-on demo
  • BPMN 2.0 and the future of Business Process Management
Be prepared to work hands-on with the tools, meet the team behind the engine, and have your questions answered. This event will give you unparalleled access to industry recognized leaders in the rules community.
To view a complete agenda, click here.

Speakers:
Jim Tyrrell, Principle JBoss Solution Architect, Red Hat
Mark Proctor, Drools Project Lead and Founder, Red Hat
Edson Tirelli, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Kris Verlaenen, jBPM Lead Engineer, Red Hat
Prakash Aradhya, Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
*Attendees are responsible for bringing their own laptop to this event. Please make sure your laptop has the ability to copy files from a USB, which will provide the software for the hands-on sessions, and have JDK 1.6 already installed.

Register now as space is limited. We look forward to seeing you there!

Sincerely,                                                              

Paul Barolet
Emergent, LLC
703-942-5911 (Direct)
800-292-1000 (Toll Free)

pbarolet@emergent360.com
http://www.emergent360.com

Caroline DarlandJBoss Government at
Carahsoft Technology Corp.                     
703-230-7409 (Direct)
877-RHAT-GOV (Toll-free)

caroline.darland@carahsoft.com
www.carahsoft.com/redhat

jBPM workshop June 19th New York

Here's the official invitation for the NY Drools & jBPM workshop on June 19th.  This is a workshop, including both presentations and hands on exercices.  More news on the one in Washington DC later that week will follow shortly.




JBoss BRMS Workshop
You are invited to attend the JBoss Drools and jBPM workshop in New York City, on Tuesday, June 19th. The workshop will be led by Drools and jBPM Projects core development team including Mark Proctor its lead for 8+ years, Dr Kris Verlaenen, jBPM 5 project lead, Edison Tirelli the lead around Complex Event Processing, Prakash Aradhya, JBoss BRMS / BPM Product Manager and others. In this day long session we will explore Business Workflows, Complex Event Processing, Authoring rules, product road maps and much much more. Be prepared to work hands on with the technology and tools, meet the team behind the technology, and get your questions answered. This day long event will get you unparalleled access to industry recognized leaders in the business process and rules community.
Join us for a complimentary one-day event where we will cover:
  • The ecosystem that encompasses the Drools open source project and the JBoss BRMS
  • The history of rules systems, where they are going and the current state of the art
  • Various features of the BRMS via a hands on demo
  • BPMN 2.0 and the future of Business Process Management
To view a complete agenda, click here.
Speakers:
Jim Tyrrell, Principle JBoss Solution Architect, Red Hat
Mark Proctor, Drools Project Lead and Founder, Red Hat
Edson Tirelli, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Kris Verlaenen, jBPM Lead Engineer, Red Hat
Prakash Aradhya, Senior Product Manager, Red Hat
*Attendees are responsible for bringing their own laptop to this event. Please make sure your laptop has the ability to copy files from a USB, which will provide the software for the hands-on sessions, and have JDK 1.6 already installed.

Register now as space is limited. We look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
The JBoss Team

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The new BPMN2 Eclipse plugin

Bob created some screencasts on how to install and use the new Eclipse plugin that we're developing at eclipse.org.
  • It supports almost all BPMN 2.0 process constructs and attributes (including lanes and pools, annotations and all the BPMN2 node types).
  • Support for the few custom attributes that jBPM5 introduces.
  • Allows you to configure which elements and attributes you want use when modeling processes (so we can limit the constructs for example to the subset currently supported by jBPM5, which is a profile we will support by default, or even more if you like).
The first screencast shows how to get the new plugin installed (you can also find some information in the documentation):



The second one shows how to use it to recreate a first version of our evaluation example (that is used in the installer):


Hope this helps you get started.


Friday, June 1, 2012

Thank you jBPM contributors !

One of the advantages of open-source is the concept of contributions.  There are several benefits, where we create a win-win solution:
  • if you think some features is missing, you can add it yourself and contribute it back, so that other people can benefit as well
  • you don't have to maintain these additional code yourself, but once accepted, the project will evolve it as part of the code base
  • you benefit from further enhancements built on top of your contributions as well
And therefore, I'd like to thank two of our recent contributors.

Toshiya Kobayashi added support for internationalization to the jBPM Designer, and added a Japanese translation.  Having a localized version of the tooling is extremely important in some areas, and we are very happy to be able to deliver this now.  Should any of you see value in a translation in another language and would like to contribute, let us know.



Saiful Omar (@msaifulomar), a Lecturer of Institute Technology Brunei who is doing his PhD studies at Loughborough University, United Kingdom, is working on a novel Compliance and Adaptive Workflow System that will utilize jBPM.  As part of his system, which is using the jBPM Designer for process modelling, Saiful was in need to have the ability to lock parts of his process model in order to prevent their further editing.  He discussed that with us and we felt that it would be a great feature to add to the jBPM Designer. Here's a screenshot of it in action.



Should you have a great idea you'd like to work on, or just have an urge you can't suppress now as well to do a contribution yourself, but don't really know where to start, just let us know.  You can come chat with use at chat.freenode.net #jbpm

Thanks guys !