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Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide

By : Dr. Zakir Laliwala, Irshad Mansuri
Book Image

Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide

By: Dr. Zakir Laliwala, Irshad Mansuri

Overview of this book

<p>Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform targeted at business people, developers, and system administrators. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. Activiti runs in any Java application on a server, cluster and in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring and it is based on simple concepts making it easy for users to maximize its potential.</p> <p>Activiti BPM Beginner’s Guide quickly introduces you to the Activiti Business Process Management methodology. This book will serve as an extremely useful starter guide for developers working on Activiti BPM who wish to integrate Activiti with other technologies.If you want to take full advantage of the power of the Activiti BPM, then this is the book for you.</p> <p>This book will teach you how to design advanced business workflows through easy steps as well as how to integrate your creations with various third party services. It will take you through a number of clear, practical steps that will help you to implement business workflow using standard BPMN notation.</p> <p>The key aim of this book is to guide you through how to develop business workflows so you can eventually remove the gap between the business analyst and the developer. The book focuses on development and delivery using Activiti BPM through integrating, migrating, and upgrading some advanced technological tools.</p> <p>You will learn everything you need to know to design effective and advanced business workflows and how to implement them with different applications.</p> <p>This book should be in the tool belt of any business analyst who wishes to model business processes and use these models to generate a fully-functioning workflow application.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action –­ deploying a process using the Activiti Explorer


The Activiti Explorer provides a tab for deploying processes. To deploy a process into the Activiti Explorer, we have to generate a .bar file for the process from Eclipse. In order to do this, perform the following steps:

  1. To generate a .bar file, open the laptop human process example in Eclipse.

  2. Your project should be opened in the Package Explorer view; only then will you be able to create a .bar file.

  3. In Package Explorer, right-click on the project and select the Create deployment artifacts option.

  4. There should now be a .bar file in the deployment folder (it is named laptopOrderHumanProcess.bar in the following example screenshot):

  5. Now, to upload the .bar file in the Activiti Explorer, log in as the admin user, browse to the Manage tab, and select upload new under the Deployments menu.

  6. The upload new option will pop up a window in which we can upload the .bar file by using either the Choose a file or Drop a file here option...