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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

Understanding the Activiti development environment


The Activiti Engine contains various libraries. Each library has a unique functionality. The following is a detailed explanation of each layer of the Activiti Engine:

  • The Activiti Engine has a Spring layer at the top. So, we can take advantage of the Spring framework within Activiti itself.

  • The second layer is the Activiti Engine that contains components for the core functionality of Activiti and the specification for BPMN 2.0.

  • The third layer is the PVM (Process Virtual Machine), which is capable of converting a graphical representation to the state model.

    All these layers are shown in the following diagram:

The Activiti Spring layer

Activiti supports the Spring functionality, which is an optional layer. We can take advantage of Spring in Activiti. The Process Engine can be configured as the Spring bean. We can start the Spring integration using org.activiti.spring.ProcessEngineFactoryBean. For the configuration of activiti-spring-version, the...