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jBPM5 Developer Guide

By : Mauricio Salatino, Esteban Aliverti
Book Image

jBPM5 Developer Guide

By: Mauricio Salatino, Esteban Aliverti

Overview of this book

<p>jBPM5 is a well known open source Business Process Management System (BPMS) used for defining and executing business processes. Java developers can use jBPM5 to analyze, improve, and maintain business processes, which are integral to an organization’s management. This book guides you through each level of the jBPM5 platform, allowing you to model and build applications which will automate your business scenarios.<br /><br />The "jBPM5 Developer Guide" covers two important standard specifications that every software engineer must be familiar with; the BPMN2 specification and the WS-Human Tasks specification. BPMN2 defines a standard business language that will be used to model business scenarios throughout the book, and WS-Human Tasks will help you to define how real people execute the human elements of those processes. Both standard specifications are covered with in depth examples. Using these two specifications and understanding the BPM discipline will allow you to improve your software designs and guide successful implementations that will impact positively on performance. <br /><br />"jBPM5 Developer Guide" allows you to adopt quickly the BPM framework to help you achieve your business goals; reducing the amount of time that you need to master BPM concepts and all the individual components provided by the platform. The book is packed with applicable examples, BPM diagrams and step-by-step instructions to help you master jBPM5.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jBPM5 Developer Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up our environment


Before starting with the descriptions of each specific component, I would like to mention the fact that in order to install and use the tooling, we need to have basic knowledge of how to work with Java. The installation procedure requires us to know some tools that are commonly used in the Java environment, and for that reason the method of installing those tools is out of the scope of this section. The prerequisites for working with all of the tooling projects provided by jBPM5 and Drools are as follows:

Once we have these tools installed and ready to be used, we will download the jBPM5 installer that will help us to download all of the different projects, plugins, and configurations that we need to start using these tools. This...