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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

Maintainability


The maintainability of a system can be considered to be a measure to determine how easily the repair actions can be performed. When we say repair, we need to discuss the following:

  • The ease of fixing issues in a deployed system (if any)

  • Improvements in the system to match the changing business needs

  • Coping with infrastructure changes in the deployment environment

In the system of our consideration, a BPM, changes in business logic are more frequent. So, one of the main factors from a maintainability perspective is the ease of improving the process executable. This is one area that jBPM excels in; as we have already discussed in earlier chapters, jBPM provides a full-fledged modeling, simulation, and deployment tooling environment. The actors, from this perspective, business analysts and developers, can use the tooling to model, simulate, test, and deploy the process changes.

Another aspect is the infrastructure or the environment in which jBPM is deployed and maintained in production...