What this book covers

Chapter 1, Business Process Modeling – Bridging Business and Technology, gives the user an overview of the BPM environment, introduces the jBPM world and give insight to the big picture of business logic integrated platform.

Chapter 2, Building Your First BPM Application, starts by taking the user straight to the jBPM tool stack by providing the reader with a hands-on product installation and configuration tutorial, and then, it tackles beginner topics such as business process modeling and deployment.

Chapter 3, Working with the Process Designer, digs deep into web-based jBPM tools to illustrate to the user the main jBPM web designer features: user forms, scripting, and process simulation.

Chapter 4, Operation Management, describes the new jBPM artifacts architecture, focusing on Maven repositories (modules and deployment), engine auditing and logging analysis, jobs scheduling, and a full working BAM customization example (with Dashboard integration).

Chapter 5, BPMN Constructs, illustrates the BPMN2 constructs implemented by jBPM and provides insights and caveats about their usage by commenting a contextually ready-to-use source code example.

Chapter 6, Core Architecture, covers all the jBPM modules (for example, human task service, persistence, auditing, and configuration) by elaborating on how to leverage engine functionalities with the help of several source code examples.

Chapter 7, Customizing and Extending jBPM, explores engine customization areas with a practical approach; it provides the user with explanations on how to customize persistence, human task service, marshalling mechanism and the work item handler architecture.

Chapter 8, Integrating jBPM with Enterprise Architecture, describes how jBPM can integrate with external applications through SOAP, REST, or JMS either as a client or a server. It offers insights on how to leverage its services in a Java EE application.

Chapter 9, jBPM in Production, explores the jBPM system features when dealing with service availability, scalability, and security; it provides tips and techniques related to engine performance tuning in production environments.

Appendix A, The Future, briefly details the trends and future of Business Process Modeling.

Appendix B, jBPM BPMN Constructs Reference, is a quick reference for the BPMN constructs supported by jBPM.