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Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM

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Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM

Overview of this book

JBoss jBPM is a free, open-source, business process management solution. It enables users to create business processes that coordinate people, applications, and services. A business process is a sequence of activities triggered by a certain input that results in a valuable output. Business Process Management is about analyzing those activities in a structured way and eventually supporting their execution with a workflow application. This allows for the following results: Better management visibility of their business: improved decision making Low cost of inputs: de-skilled labor requirements, less waste, standardized components Better outputs: consistent quality, more customer satisfaction Businesses have always tried to manage their processes, but software such as jBPM brings the methodology and management theory to practical life. JBoss jBPM offers the following key features: Graphical process definition Flexibility to integrate code into the graphical process definition A customizable web-based workflow application that runs the process you’ve defined Easy programming model to extend the graphical process definition A process-oriented programming model (jPDL) that blends the best of process definition languages and Java. Easy to integrate with other systems through the JBoss middleware suite.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


We've moved our system on leaps and bounds in this chapter and we're edging closer to having a system that is ready for live. We have put the jBPM system on a server, so our proof-of-concept testers can bash their test data into it and give us feedback on what they think. We have taken that feedback, sorted it into stuff that must be done now, and stuff that can be done later; and we've started making some of the changes we can do now.

We have allowed managers to prioritize tasks by design and on the fly. Most complicated of all, we have shown how our system can be integrated with other applications, both in house and external. We've done such a good job that our sponsor has happily signed off our proof-of-concept system.

We have now achieved our proof of concept and we're ready to move to full scale user acceptance testing and real implementation. This is what we'll do in the next chapter.