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Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM

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Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM

Overview of this book

JBoss jBPM is a free, open-source, business process management solution. It enables users to create business processes that coordinate people, applications, and services. A business process is a sequence of activities triggered by a certain input that results in a valuable output. Business Process Management is about analyzing those activities in a structured way and eventually supporting their execution with a workflow application. This allows for the following results: Better management visibility of their business: improved decision making Low cost of inputs: de-skilled labor requirements, less waste, standardized components Better outputs: consistent quality, more customer satisfaction Businesses have always tried to manage their processes, but software such as jBPM brings the methodology and management theory to practical life. JBoss jBPM offers the following key features: Graphical process definition Flexibility to integrate code into the graphical process definition A customizable web-based workflow application that runs the process you’ve defined Easy programming model to extend the graphical process definition A process-oriented programming model (jPDL) that blends the best of process definition languages and Java. Easy to integrate with other systems through the JBoss middleware suite.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Adapt the web console


The web console functions perfectly well as it is, although there are obviously a few things we'd like to do to make it our own. In later chapters, we'll make some further adaptations to the web console, but for now we'll content ourselves with adding some "help" text to the task form pages to give our proof-of-concept testers a few pointers as to how they should use the system. We are simply going to include a bit of text on each task form telling the users what is expected of them. We can do this with some very straightforward HTML. Go back into the Designer and double-click the hold-auditions.xhtml task form in the Package Explorer. Scroll down to the end of the code and add the following lines of HTML and text on a new line between the dataform and uicomponent closing tags:

  <br /><br />
  Add in the date and location of the next audition. Please enter the date in the format DD-MM-YYYY.
  <br /><br />
  When you've finished click Save to...