In the previous chapters, we sailed through the various functional aspects of jBPM and also saw how we can extend and customize jBPM for adding more features. Now, it is production time, and there is a change in the perspective of how the application is viewed by its stakeholders.

The important question now is not the functional characteristics, but the nonfunctional ones. People think about the stability and resilience of the application and not the flexibility that it gives. People think of how fast and cost-efficiently the application can be scaled so as to provision for more users and how less critical is the latency of a service.

The mettle of the application is put under fire. jBPM is ready-to-use production software, and in this chapter, we will discuss various facilities available in jBPM to make it fit into the requirements of production software. The chapter is structured on the basis of the major qualities of a system that has to be taken care of in...