An overview of Java tools for Business Process Management. Presented at the Pasadena JUG on June 28, 2010.

1. Open Source
BPM in Java
David Noble
dnoble.org
Pasadena Java Users Group June 28, 2010

2. About You
✤ Who has used... ?
✤ BPM / workflow engines
✤ Business rules engines
✤ SOA / WS-*

3. About Me
✤ JPL
✤ telemetry processing
✤ mission operations
✤ Startups
✤ BPM, mobile search, consulting, etc
✤ JPL again
✤ mission operations

4. About this Presentation
✤ Open Source BPM
✤ What is it?
✤ Why should I care?
✤ How can I use it?

5. Terms
✤ Activity
✤ Business Process
✤ Workflow vs BPM
✤ Orchestration vs Choreography

6. What is BPM?
Analysis Orchestration
BPA BPMS
Rules Monitoring
BRE BAM
Integration Reporting
EAI BI

7. Foundations of BPM
✤ Flowcharts
✤ State diagrams
✤ Activity diagrams
✤ Petri nets

8. BPM Standards
✤ BPMN
✤ WS-BPEL
✤ BPEL4People, WS-HumanTask
✤ XPDL

9. Why Should I Care?

10. Why Should I Care?
It depends.

11. When Should I Care?
✤
Orchestrating web services
✤
Coordinating manual activities
✤
Combining those together
✤
Integrating rules and services
✤
When processes might change

12. Benefits of BPM (biz)
✤ Efficiency, effectiveness, agility
✤ Analysis and articulation
✤ Measurement
✤ Improvement
✤ Automation

13. Benefits of BPM (tech)
✤ Separation of concerns
✤ Middleware
✤ Manual task events
✤ Audit trail

14. Open Source
✤ Intalio|BPMS
✤ JBoss jBPM
✤ Activiti

15. Intalio | BPMS
✤ For SOA
✤ WSDL and XML Schemas

16. Intalio | BPMS
✤ Apache ODE
✤ Eclipse BPMN
✤ Tempo

17. jBPM
✤ For developers
✤ Java and XML

18. Activiti
✤ Keep an eye on this
✤ Led by jBPM founder
✤ Funded by Alfresco
✤ Developer-friendly
✤ Business-friendly
✤ User-friendly

19. Tips & Techniques
✤ Modeling
✤ Style guide
✤ Lifecycles
✤ Escalations
✤ Monitoring and reporting

20. Resources
✤ BPMN Method and Style
✤ by Bruce Silver: www.brsilver.com
✤ jbpm.org
✤ intalio.org
✤ activiti.org

21. Open Source
BPM in Java
David Noble
dnoble.org
Pasadena Java Users Group June 28, 2010