This document provides an overview of the JBoss BPM Suite 6.0 for automating workflows using open source business process management. It describes the core components and features of BPMS 6, including the execution server, development repository, knowledge management, integration with Fuse Service Works, and the business resource planner. The document also outlines the BPM lifecycle involving modeling, deploying, monitoring, and analyzing processes and tasks. It provides examples of using the runtime manager, REST API, and remote client to execute processes and tasks on the clustered execution server.

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Automate Workflows With
Leading Open Source BPM
Prakash Aradyha
Product Management Director, Red Hat
Dr Kris Verlaenen,
Principal Software Engineer, Lead BPM Architect
March 12, 2014

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Topics
● JBoss BPM Suite 6.0 Overview
● Core features of BPMS 6
● Under the hood of BPMS 6
● BPM in Action – Detailed demo

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Overview

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JBoss BPM Suite – Components

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JBoss BRMS - Components

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JBoss BRMS Vs BPM Suite
JBoss BRMS 6.0JBoss BRMS 6.0
JBoss BPM Suite 6.0
Target - Realtime Decision Management
Target:
Process Automation
Service Enabled Orchestration
Intelligent Business Operations

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BPM Suite Architecture

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BPM Lifecycle
Core
Services

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Core Services: Execution Server
Client
Applications
ESBs
Partner
Services
Mobile
Clients
● Centralized Execution Server
● REST, JMS and Native Java
Interfaces out of the box
● Native Java Client that
interfaces through REST
● Clusterable, Scalable Server
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Core Services: Development Repository
● GIT Based – Universally
accepted
● Enterprise features like tagging,
branching etc
● No repository migration hassles
● Browse any GIT repository
● Import and Export
● Indexed searching

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Knowledge Management

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Choice of Tools
Business User Friendly – Web Based Developer Friendly – IDE Based

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Core Services: Integration with FSW
Switchyard
● Defined SY task in Designer
● Direct invocation of SY
services from Process
● SY can instantiate a business
process
● SY can signal a process
● SY can execute a task

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Core Services: Business Resource Planner (TP)

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Core Services: Business Resource Planner (TP)

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BPM Lifecycle - Model
Business
Assets

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Model: Business Central

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Model: Project Structure

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Model: Data Modeler

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Model: Process Modeler

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Model: Form Designer

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Model: Rule Authoring

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Model: Simulation

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BPM Lifecycle - Deploy
Business
Assets
Core Services

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Deploy: Packaging, Deployment Repository
● Maven Packages
● Build – Creates a kjar – Includes all assets – process
definitions, classes, forms, images etc
● Deploy – Deploy to a Maven repo
● Applications can pull from Maven Repo
● Dependency management with other libraries – Share
libraries
● Integrate with SRAMP – Governance in multi stage
● Configure Maven Repo location

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Deploy: How Deploy Works

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Migrating from 5.3 to 6
● Things to Consider in migration
● New development repository – JCR to GIT
● New Packaging – PKG to Maven JARs
● New APIs – Knowledge APIs to KIE
● Legacy KIE APIs are still supported
● All assets – process defs, DRLs, Decision Tables,
models work as is

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BPM Lifecycle – Process Monitor

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Process Monitoring: Overview

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BPM Lifecycle - Tasks
T
a
s
k
s

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Tasks: Inbox

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Tasks: Task List

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Tasks: Task Execution

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BPM Lifecycle: Analyze

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BAM – Business Activity Monitoring

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BAM: Overview

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BAM: Define KPIs

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BAM: Process Dashboard

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Under the hoods

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New Core Features
● RuntimeManager:
● Session + TaskService management
● CDI integration
● Execution server
● Remote API
● REST, JMS
● Deployment using kjar

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RuntimeManager
● Access to KieSession and TaskService
● Hides setup complexity
● Manages sessions
● Singleton session
● Session per request
● Session per process instance
Kie
Session
Task
Service
RuntimeManager

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RuntimeManager Example
RuntimeManager manager =
RuntimeManagerFactory.Factory.get()
.newPerProcessInstanceRuntimeManager(environment);
RuntimeEngine runtime =
manager.getRuntimeEngine(
ProcessInstanceIdContext.get(id));
KieSession ksession = runtime.getKieSession();
// do something here, e.g.
ksession.startProcess(“org.jbpm.hello”);
manager.disposeRuntimeEngine(engine);
manager.close();

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jBPM Services (CDI)
● Inject services into your CDI environment
@Inject @Singleton RuntimeManager
singletonManager;
@Inject TaskService taskService;
● Configure (@Produces) EMF, environment,
usergroupcallback

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jBPM Execution Server
● Execute process and task commands
● Through UI
● Remote API
● Clustered environment
● High Availability
● Load balancing

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Execution Server
Request3
PrInst1
PrInst2
Request2
Request1
Quartz +
Helix + Zookeeper

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Remoting
● KieSession and TaskService
● Possibly more later
● Uses RuntimeManager
● Using REST or JMS
● JAXB + JSON
● Remote client using existing interfaces

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REST API
http://server.address:port/{application-id}/rest/
runtime
{id: [a-zA-Z0-9-]+} // deploymentId
process
{id: [a-zA-Z0-9-]+}
start * start process [POST]
instance
{id: d} * process instance details [GET]
signal * signal event [POST]
abort * abort process instance [POST]
signal
{id: [a-zA-Z0-9-]+} * signal event [POST]
workitem
{id: d}
complete * complete work item [POST]
abort * abort work item [POST]
execute * execute the given command [POST]
task
{id: d+} * task details [GET]
activate * activate task
claim * claim task [POST]
// etc..
execute * execute the given command [POST]
query * task query

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Command Serialization
● JAXB serialization of commands
● e.g. Start task
<command-message>
<deploymentId>test</deploymentId>
<ver>1</ver>
<start-task>
<taskId>1</taskId>
<userId>krisv</userId>
</start-task>
</command-message>

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REST Client Example
RuntimeEngine runtimeEngine =
new RemoteRestSessionFactory(
"org.jbpm:HR:1.0”,
“http://localhost:8080/jbpm-console",
AuthenticationType.BASIC, "krisv", "krisv")
.newRuntimeEngine();
engine.getKieSession().startProcess("org.jbpm.humantask");
engine.getTaskService().start(1, "krisv");

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Demo

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Thank You

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Questions?