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OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management

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OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management

Overview of this book

OSWorkflow is an open-source workflow engine written entirely in Java with a flexible approach and a technical user-base target. It is released under the Apache License. You can create simple or complex workflows, depending on your needs. You can focus your work on the business logic and rules. No more Petri Net or finite state machine coding! You can integrate OSWorkflow into your application with a minimum of fuss. OSWorkflow provides all of the workflow constructs that you might encounter in real-life processes, such as steps, conditions, loops, splits, joins, roles, etc.This book explains in detail all the various aspects of OSWorkflow, without assuming any prior knowledge of Business Process Management. Real-life examples are used to clarify concepts.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
OSWorkflow
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

Chapter 8. Dashboards with Pentaho

This chapter shows how to graphically represent OSWorkflow's business process information by integrating it with the Pentaho open-source Business Intelligence solution. Using the charting capabilities of Pentaho we will build a Business Activity Monitor (BAM) dashboard to monitor and analyze the processes.

First we'll integrate Pentaho with the OSWorkflow instance database, giving it access to the business process data, and then by using the Pentaho Design Studio we'll create an Action Sequence that will query the database and then graph the results.

What is Pentaho?

Pentaho is an open-source reporting application, with several enterprise capabilities such as chart generation, dashboards, data mining, and pivot table analysis. Pentaho is a 100% Java application, based on the JBOSS application server and JBOSS Portal for advanced user customization of dashboards.

Pentaho also uses several other open-source components, such as:

  • JFreeChart for chart generation...