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Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM

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Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM

Overview of this book

JBoss jBPM is a free, open-source, business process management solution. It enables users to create business processes that coordinate people, applications, and services. A business process is a sequence of activities triggered by a certain input that results in a valuable output. Business Process Management is about analyzing those activities in a structured way and eventually supporting their execution with a workflow application. This allows for the following results: Better management visibility of their business: improved decision making Low cost of inputs: de-skilled labor requirements, less waste, standardized components Better outputs: consistent quality, more customer satisfaction Businesses have always tried to manage their processes, but software such as jBPM brings the methodology and management theory to practical life. JBoss jBPM offers the following key features: Graphical process definition Flexibility to integrate code into the graphical process definition A customizable web-based workflow application that runs the process you’ve defined Easy programming model to extend the graphical process definition A process-oriented programming model (jPDL) that blends the best of process definition languages and Java. Easy to integrate with other systems through the JBoss middleware suite.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Investigating the web console interface


The jBPM web console is where our users will do their tasks, monitor the process, and administer the running of the live process. The web console is developed and maintained by the jBPM project team as an example of a web front-end to the jBPM process engine. The intention is that the example web console can serve as the starting point for jBPM users' own implementations of jBPM: it can be developed and tailored to our exact needs. Of course, if you do make improvements and develop the code base, you should submit your changes back to the jBPM community to help make the project even better.

At the time of writing, the web console is under very active development for the 3.2 release of jBPM, and hence the version that you actually end up using may well differ slightly from that presented in these pages. No matter, the concepts will remain the same and it will only be aesthetic differences, if there are any.

Let's have a look at the web console. With...