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Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide

By : Dr. Zakir Laliwala, Irshad Mansuri
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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

Integrating business rules in Activiti


Business rule is a vast topic and there are various books available that discuss it. In this section, we will give you a brief introduction to business rules and how to use and implement them.

We can think of a business rule as a plain set of words that say something meaningful about the business. For example: customers making a payment with a platinum card should be given a 20 percent discount on the purchase of products. This is a business rule, but it has been explained in simple words that a lay person can also understand.

To create and implement business rules, we require a business rule management system (BRMS) and Drools is an open source BRMS. To know more about Drools, you can refer to Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Developer’s Guide, by Packt Publishing. In this chapter, we will cover just a brief overview of Drools. It is a JBoss project with the Apache license. The project consists of various modules, such as Drools Expert, Drools Guvnor, Drools Fusion...