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Mastering jBPM6

By : Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan
Book Image

Mastering jBPM6

By: Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering jBPM6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Integrating jBPM with Enterprise Architecture

We have an enterprise infrastructure in place, now we want to separate and centralize the process management to a single component, and of course, our choice is jBPM. So, the million dollar question would be "How do we integrate jBPM to the enterprise application in place?"

The answer to this question varies according to requirements and how the enterprise application is built. The architecture describes how the application is built, and from a broader perspective, a set of architecture patterns are used (either alone or in combination) as guidelines to model the architecture. This chapter focuses on provisions available in jBPM for integrating it with applications that follow these architecture patterns.

The chapter starts by discussing the context of enterprise application integration and continues to discuss the following in detail:

  • Integrating jBPM into a JEE-based application

  • Integrating jBPM into a service-oriented architecture

  • Integrating...