JBPM6 developer guide : learn about the components, tooling, and integration points that are part of the JBoss Business Process Management (BPM) framework / Mariano Nicolas De Maio, Maurico Salatino, Esteban Allvarti.

Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed Sept. 2, 2014).

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Why Do We Need Business Process Management?; Theoretical background; Introduction, analysis, and explanations of standard specifications; Technical details and common practices of jBPM6; The conceptual background of BPM; Business processes; Sequence of business activities; Naming our activities; Business users and business applications; Humans and systems behave differently

Humans and systems -- classification strategiesAchieving a business goal; The BPM discipline; BPM stage 1 -- discovering your business processes; BPM stage 2 -- formalizing your new processes; BPM stage 3 -- implementing your technical assets; The business entity model; Coordination and orchestration of activities; BPM stage 4 -- runtime; BPM stage 5 -- monitoring; BPM stage 6 -- improvements; BPM applications in the real world; The BPMS check list; BPM APIs and common practices; BPM -- adoption of standards; Summary; Chapter 2: BPM Systems'' Structure; Components of a BPMS; The execution node

The semantic moduleThe process engine; Node instance structures; Components inside jBPM6; Transactions and persistence; Audit/History logs; Real-time dashboards; Data mining and data analysis tools; The KIE APIs; KIE services; The KIE module; The KIE container; The KIE base; The KIE session; External interactions; The Human task component; Human tasks -- life cycle; Human tasks -- APIs; The User/Group callback; The BPMS ecosystem; BPM and service-oriented architecture; Service orchestration; Enterprise Service Bus; Rule engines; Classic BPM system and rule engine integration

Event-driven architecture and complex event processingPredictive analytics and decision management; Summary; Chapter 3: Using BPMN 2.0 to Model Business Scenarios; Introduction to BPMN 2.0; Process modeling compliance; BPMN 2.0 elements; Flow elements; Connecting elements; Data elements; Swimlanes; Artifacts; Task types in jBPM6; Subprocess types in jBPM6; Event subtypes; Boundary events; BPMN 2.0; Modeling business scenarios with BPMN 2.0; Technical perspective; Sprint management technical overview; Adding simple process data; Summary; Chapter 4: Understanding the KIE Workbench

What you need to start a jBPM6 environmentRunning the KIE Workbench installer; What you will need to create the jBPM6 business processes; Workbench utilities; Process designer; Other knowledge asset editors; What you will need to run the jBPM6 business processes; Process runtime; Process UI; Task lists; Task forms; Summary; Chapter 5: Creating a Process Project in the KIE Workbench; An IDE to our knowledge; A variety of process designers; The BPMN 2.0 Eclipse editor; The Web Process Designer; The jBPM Eclipse plugin; Interacting with the Web Process Designer; Creating new processes

If you are a Java developer or architect who needs to have a better understanding of how Business Process Management frameworks behave in real-life implementations, this book is for you. This book assumes that you know the Java language well and are familiar with some widely used frameworks such as Hibernate. You should also know the basics of relational databases and Maven-based applications.

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