Getting Started with jBPM

By Girish and Avinash

• What are Business Processes

• What is Business Process Management

• Ideal Business Process Management Tool

• jBPM5 Components

• jBPM5 Designer Elements

• Create process in jBPM5

• Human Interactions

• Demo

What are Business Processes

Loan Processing

Order Processing

• Multiple steps• Different individuals• Other third party sub processes

What is Business Process Management

Methodology

Steps to make process better

To provide us analytical data or reports.

Improve and Audit Process Adherence.

What is Business Process Management

Discover- Finding out tasks, people involved in current business process.

Formalize- BPMN 2.0 is standard for process modeling. business analysts define processes /policies

Implement- Implement processes to allow to test, validate, and simulate process behavior.

Runtime- Deploy our business assets (processes, rules, and associated descriptions) to production environment and start training users

Monitoring- Dashboard-like tools to monitor process execution and performance metrics.

Improvements- Improvements by analyzing process execution and exceptional situations.

What BPM Tool should have

What Good BPM Tool should have

BPM Tool

Designer

Repository

Workflow engine

Human Tasks

Escalations

Reminders

Domain Specific Tasks

Simulation

Reports

Signals /Events

Available BPM Tools

Commercial vendors

•Appian•BEA Systems (AquaLogic BPM)•Cordys•EMC (ProActivity)•Global360 (OpenText)•HandySoft•Savvion

Open source vendors

•ProcessMaker•Ruote (Ruby)•Intalio •jBPM

BPM System Summary

Key Components

BPMS Core [Designer & Workflow engine]

Persistence [Data]

Human Task Component [Collect and present data]

Jbpm5 Component Overview

Components inside jBPM5

jBPM5 Knowledge-centric APIs

Knowledge Builder

• set of semantic modules and parsers that know how to handle different types of resources

• .java files

Knowledge Base

• Binaries created from Knowledge Builder

• compiled• knowledge

assets• .class

or .jar files

Knowledge Session

• Actual instantiation to perform tasks

• Class loading and execution

Demo

Simple demo using single task

Example Use case for BPM

Order processing Use case

Demo on

• Capture order

• Shipment

Downloads downloaded from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbpm/files/ installer-full: the jbpm-installer, downloads and installs a demo setup of

jBPM, already contains a number of dependencies prepackages (so they don't need to be downloaded separately)

Installer Prerequisites

Java JDK 1.6+  http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Ant 1.7+ http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi Download the installer

full installer: jBPM-{version}-installer-full.zip

Demo

Demo

Setupant install.demo : This will download Jboss,

Eclipse, Install Drools Guvnor, Install jBPM Designer, Install the jBPM console, jBPM Eclipse plugin, Drools Eclipse plugin

ant start.demo : This will Start the H2 database, Start the JBoss AS, Start Eclipse, Start the Human Task Service

ant install.demo.noeclipse : If you don’t want eclipse to be downloaded

ant start.demo.noeclipse: if you don’t want to start eclipse

Guvnor and jBPM Console

Using Guvnor repository and Designer http://localhost:8080/drools-guvnor

Watch video at : http://people.redhat.com/kverlaen/jbpm-installer-guvnor.5.2.swf

Using the jBPM Consolehttp://localhost:8080/jbpm-console

Questions and Answers

Contact us

Twitter:@avinashpawal@girishbapat

Email:avinash@synerzip.comgirish.bapat@synerzip.com