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Mastering jBPM 5

By : Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan
Book Image

Mastering jBPM 5

By: Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan

Overview of this book

If you are a designer or developer who wants to build and operate business process-centric applications, then this book is for you. Knowledge of the basic concepts of application development in Java will be helpful in following the concepts covered in the book, but is not necessary.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Appendix A. The Future

As we reach the conclusion of Mastering jBPM6, traversing through the why, what, and how of jBPM, it becomes obligatory to discuss what the future holds. Of course, we are not foretellers, but when it comes to a technology that we use at the heart of our enterprise architecture and evangelize, we need to understand the place of this system in future computing.

The computing world is going through a brisk evolution, automation is the key and Internet of Things (IoT) is at the door, revolutionizing the world as we know it. In this short Appendix, we discuss the place of jBPM and the related technologies in the future, by detailing the following trends in computing:

  • Business programming
  • Convergence of enterprise architectures