By now, we have seen the two main components of a jBPM6 runtime, the KIE session and the Human task service. These components are provided as the basic components needed to run process interactions between humans and systems. As the responsibilities of the process runtime grows, connectors to external systems should be added to transform the process engine into a highly configurable enterprise integration platform, where coordination between different systems can be easily managed in a business-friendly way.

The entire configuration involved in creating a runtime for the process engine, the Human task component, and all the external systems connectors could become cumbersome if not managed in a single place. In this chapter, we will learn about the runtime manager component, which is designed to create a bridge between all the components and configurations involved in a process execution. This component can be used to create a...