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OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management

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OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management

Overview of this book

OSWorkflow is an open-source workflow engine written entirely in Java with a flexible approach and a technical user-base target. It is released under the Apache License. You can create simple or complex workflows, depending on your needs. You can focus your work on the business logic and rules. No more Petri Net or finite state machine coding! You can integrate OSWorkflow into your application with a minimum of fuss. OSWorkflow provides all of the workflow constructs that you might encounter in real-life processes, such as steps, conditions, loops, splits, joins, roles, etc.This book explains in detail all the various aspects of OSWorkflow, without assuming any prior knowledge of Business Process Management. Real-life examples are used to clarify concepts.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
OSWorkflow
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

What is Pentaho?


Pentaho is an open-source reporting application, with several enterprise capabilities such as chart generation, dashboards, data mining, and pivot table analysis. Pentaho is a 100% Java application, based on the JBOSS application server and JBOSS Portal for advanced user customization of dashboards.

Pentaho also uses several other open-source components, such as:

  • JFreeChart for chart generation

  • JFreeReport and JasperReport for reporting

  • JPivot for pivot table analysis

  • Kettle for ETL

  • Mondrian as an OLAP server

  • Quartz as a job scheduler

By using these products, Pentaho gives a lot of choices for implementation in an enterprise environment.

Pentaho can be used as a standalone application or embedded into your application.

In the following examples, we'll use a standalone option. The integrated distribution includes the Pentaho code and a customized JBoss application server, a JBOSS Portal instance, and a built-in HSQL database. This distribution focuses on ease of use and out-of-the...