Jbpm 6 Developer Guide

Learn about the components, tooling, and integration points that are part of the JBoss Business Process Management (BPM) framework

Who This Book Is For

If you are a Java developer or architect who needs to have a better understanding of how Business Process Management frameworks behave in real-life implementations, this book is for you.

This book assumes that you know the Java language well and are familiar with some widely used frameworks such as Hibernate. You should also know the basics of relational databases and Maven-based applications.

About This Book

• Model and implement different business processes using the BPMN2 standard notation
• Understand how and when to use the different tools provided by the JBoss Business Process Management (BPM) platform
• Learn how to model complex business scenarios and environments through a step-by-step approach

In Detail

jBPM6 Developer Guide will guide you through each level of the jBPM6 platform, allowing you to model and build applications that will automate your business scenarios. This book will provide you with the knowledge that you need to get up and running with developing applications that use Business Processes (BPM) as a foundation.

This book will help you understand the pieces and components inside a Business Process Management System (BPMS). Furthermore, you will learn about the shared mechanisms that the Drools and jBPM projects use to store information and define transaction boundaries.

By the end of the book, you will know how to use the KIE Workbench extension points to communicate external systems with it, and also how to use these extension points to configure the KIE Workbench in a distributed environment.

Mariano Nicolas De Maio

Mariano Nicolas De Maio is a software engineer who graduated from the Argentinian Enterprise University (UADE). He has been working on Java-based projects and open source frameworks for over a decade. He became involved in the jBPM and Drools projects as a community contributor 4 years ago first as a project architect for a company investigating the feasibility of a few rules and processes, and eventually as a community contributor on several components that are now part of the open source release components of jBPM, such as the jBPM5 JMS connectors for Human task services, the Infinispan implementations of Drools and the jBPM6 persistence scheme, the Form Builder project and its initial migration to UberFire, the jBPM rollback API, and a number of bug fixes for the core components of several other projects. For the last 3 years, he has been teaching and consulting for jBPM and Drools. Currently, he is the CTO at Plugtree (http://www.plugtree.com), a company that provides consultancy and training around the world on Drools, jBPM, and any artificial intelligence concept where they can lend a hand to different companies. Since then, he has provided both private and public training on both Drools and jBPM to a large number of companies all over the world. He lives in Buenos Aires. He is happily married to Tamara and they are raising a beautiful baby daughter, Sofia. In his free time, he likes to work on contributions for the open source projects he is using. He also has a personal blog about jBPM, Drools, and Decision Management (http://marianbuenosayres.wordpress.com). You can find him through the official jBPM IRC channel #jbpm at http://webchat.freenode.net, under the nickname mariano or mariano84. Besides writing this book, he has previously collaborated in the review of several other books, including jBPM5 Developer Guide, Mauricio Salatino and Esteban Aliverti, Packt Publishing, and A Practical Guide to jBPM5: JBoss Business Process Management Framework, Venkataganesh Thoppae.

Mauricio Salatino

Mauricio Salatino(a.k.a. Salaboy) has been an active part of the Java and open source software community for more than 9 years. He got heavily involved in the JBoss jBPM and Drools projects as a community contributor 6 years ago. After publishing his first book about jBPM for Packt Publishing, he was recognized as a valuable member of both projects at the JBoss Community Awards 2011. He has participated in international conferences such as Java One, Rules Fest, Jazoon, JudCon, JBoss In Bossa, and RuleML as the main speaker. He is now a Drools and jBPM Senior Software Developer at Red Hat/JBoss, fully dedicated to move these projects forward. He is currently in charge of developing the next generation Business Process Management Suite, along with contributing to the evolution of the Drools and jBPM community projects. He is now based in London. In his free time, he passionately promotes the open source projects he is using, and is very active in the community forums on these projects. He also runs his personal blog (http://salaboy.com) about jBPM, Drools, and artificial intelligence

Esteban Aliverti

Esteban Aliverti is an independent IT consultant and software developer with more than 8 years of experience in the field. He is a fervent open source promoter and developer with meaningful contributions to JBoss Drools and jBPM5 frameworks. After he got his software engineering degree in Argentina, he started working with local IT companies fulfilling different roles ranging from web developer to software architect. In 2009, while working for Plugtree, he was introduced to JBoss Drools and jBPM5 projects. Over the next 3 years, he became one of the lead consultants at Plugtree, providing services to its most