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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

Summary


This chapter covered PropertySet, a very handy way to store workflow variables, and validators to check the workflow's input data. Also, we introduced advanced definition concepts such as conditions, registers, transient variables, variable interpolation, and BeanShell scripting, for implementing very dynamic business processes. We then took a look at the FunctionProviders.

The next chapter will show you how to embed OSWorkflow into your application and to get the most of the persistence and configuration options. Also, we'll cover the workflow unit testing and the security model of OSWorkflow. Lastly, we will take a brief look at the integration between OSWorkflow and Spring, a very popular lightweight object container.