The document discusses business processes and business process management. It defines a business process as a collection of related steps that produce value. Business processes are often what differentiate companies providing similar services. Business processes are often visualized using flowcharts and insight into processes provides management perspective and enables communication between IT and business teams. Business process management is a large field that can be standardized using BPMN and executed using engines like Activiti.

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2. Agenda Introduction Live coding TechTalk What do you get? Demo

3. What is a business process? 3 A collection of related steps that produce value

5. Insight into business (mgmt perspective)

6. Communication IT-business

8. Insight into business (mgmt perspective)

9. Communication IT-business

10. Business process Management is a HUGE fieldSuppose 250 pages/book 2 612 500 pages on BPM * 313 BPM trees *http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_paper_can_one_tree_produce

11. But technically… 9

12. BPMN 2.0 OMG standard Shapes Execution semantics File format First pure play BPM standard With general endorsement 10

14. Any BPMN 2.0 compliant editor

15. MS Visio, Oracle, IBM, Aris, etc.

17. What is Activiti? 13 100% Java 100% oSS Lightweight Performant Embeddable

18. What is Activiti? 14

19. Activiti What is Activiti? 15 The diagram API runtimeService.startProcessInstance… Forms

20. So technically … 16 Book flight through webservice Generate PDF Check order state in SAP Activiti HR needs to approve the expense Select helpdesk ticket Joey needs to call the customer

21. What does that mean for you? Typical BPM attitude

23. Business processes practically always require automated steps and integrations

24. Activiti gives the developer the power and flexibility he/she needs to be extremely productiveActiviti

26. Agenda Introduction Live coding TechTalk What do you get? Demo

27. Live coding 22 Activiti + command line Demonstrating the simplicity and power of Activiti Activiti + Spring In only 10 minutes! Activiti + webapp

28. TechTalk 23

30. So they should be tested the same as regular code … with unit tests!

31. Activiti supports JUnit 3 and JUnit4 style of unit tests

32. + a lot of convience for testingPic from http://silverbackapp.com

33. Unit testing business processes Junit 3.X style Pic from http://silverbackapp.com

34. Unit testing business processes Junit 4 style Pic from http://silverbackapp.com

39. Agenda Introduction Live coding TechTalk What do you get? Demo

40. What do you get? World-class rock-solid BPM and workflow engine 32 32

41. Not only the engine? Java Applications Activiti Modeler Activiti Designer Activiti Engine Activiti Probe Activiti Explorer Activiti Cycle REST interface iPhone Explorer Android Explorer

42. Activiti Modeler Webbased BPMN 2.0 graphical editor 34 34

43. Activiti Explorer Process end-users (task mgmt) 35 35

44. Activiti Probe System admins Status overview, stuck jobs, exceptions, logs, … 36 36

45. Activiti Cycle Collaboration … done right 37 37

46. Activiti KickStart 38 38

49. Mobile Activiti 42

50. Mobile Activiti 43

52. Typical configuration

53. Easy business archive deployment

54. Generate controllers/view/example appActiviti & Grails 44

55. Agenda Introduction Live coding TechTalk What do you get? Demo

57. Thorough analysis is needed

58. All steps needs to be recorded in official documents

60. The mortgage process 48

61. The mortgage process 49 = CMIS call

62. The power of Java 50 Out-of-the-box Custom Java

63. The power of Java 51 public class CreateLoanApplicationDocument implements JavaDelegate { public void execute(DelegateExecution execution) { Session session = CmisUtil.createCmisSession("admin", "admin", Constants.ALFRESCO_URL); Folder folder = CmisUtil.getFolder(session, Constants.LOAN_APPLICATION_STORAGE_FOLDER); Document document = createWordDocument(session, folder, execution); storeDocumentReferencesAsProcessVariables(execution, folder, document); session.save(); }