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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 the integration of Pentaho Design Studio with the OSWorkflow instance database to create Action Sequence files to query and graph the results. As you have seen in this chapter, the Pentaho BI open-source project allows for many useful ways to leverage the business process information visually.

Finally we have completed a whole range of OSWorkflow integrations with other open‑source Java projects such as:

  • JBoss Rules: Rule Engine

  • Quartz: Job Scheduling

  • Esper: Event Stream Processor

  • Pentaho: Business Activity Monitoring

These integrations enable you to create fully open-source and feature-complete BPM solutions.