jBPM 4 aims to improve supportability, grow adoption, and increase ability to execute business processes. It focuses on simplifying the API, improving documentation, enabling easier configuration, and providing more stable database handling. The document discusses what jBPM is, the goals of version 4, various use cases, and features like the jPDL process definition language and tools for modeling, executing, and monitoring processes.

1. jBPM 4 Tom Baeyens JBoss, Red Hat

2. Agenda What is jBPM jBPM 4 Goals jBPM 4 Use Cases

3. Tom Baeyens Lead and founder of JBoss jBPM Consulting for numerous BPM projects Bringing BPM mainstream Articles InfoQ, TSS, Dzone, OnJava,… Blogs http://processdevelopments.blogspot.com/ Talks JavaOne, JBossWorld, JAOO, TSS,…

4. What is jBPM Business Process Management BPM as a discipline BPM as software engineering jBPM BPM for Java Developer Manage task lists for people Orchestrate POJO code Transactional state machine library Graphical

5. What is jBPM Your App Your Architecture jBPM

6. What is jBPM Model process Declare tasks Bind to your POJO Java code Decorate Asynchronous continuations Timers

7. jBPM 4 Goals Improve supportability Grow to next level of adoption Raise 'ability to execute' Implementation improvements

8. Improve Supportability Separation between normal usage from bleeding edge usage public API vs internal packages Userguide vs devguide More stable database / process definition caching Migration between 4.x releases (plan) Automatic JBoss installation No messing with configs and libs Tested configurations

9. Improve Supportability Continuous integration Ability to reproduce bugs Collect community knowledge in test suite Ability to keep improving over longer time Longer lifespan of jBPM 4 Config import system Less error prone Imports for hibernate tx, jta tx, spring tx Allows for default updates in default imports

10. Grow to Next Level of Adoption Lowering the treshold to get started Simpler API Split normal usage from bleeding edge API based queries Better container and app pluggability Much! improved docs Examples Automatic installations Remove need for messing on your own Easier configuration abstraction through imports

11. Increase ‘Ability to Execute' Historical data separated from runtime data Queryable history information Keeps runtime data healthy Improved transaction mappings Proper handling of timers and external triggers More stable database DB data migration becomes possible Improved job executor

12. Implementation Improvements Improved pluggable architecture Changed composition to inheritence. Direct variable access Interfaces for activity implementations Only exposing the methods that can be invoked. Changed recursion with iteration Dealing with automatic long loops.

13. Use Case 1: Rapid Prototyping Model the process Include tasks Generate forms Deploy Show live demo

14. Use Cases 2: Transactional Script Model the script process Delegate activities To POJO user code EJBeans SEAM beans Demarcate Asynchonous continuations Timers Update control flow Hot redeploy Changed logic

15. Use Cases 3: Pageflow Pages are activities Navigations are transitions Persistence in HTTP session SEAM

16. jPDL Activities Control flow transition start end end-cancel end-error decision fork join super-state sub-process Functional state sub-process task java script esb hql sql

17. jPDL Features Lots of functional activities mail, java, esb, task,… Concurrency Event listeners Timers Asynchronous continuations Transactional exception handlers

18. State Choice

19. State Choice < process name = &quot;StateChoice&quot; > < start > < transition to = &quot;wait for response&quot; /> </ start > < state name = &quot;wait for response&quot; > < transition name = &quot;accept&quot; to = &quot;submit document&quot; /> < transition name = &quot;reject&quot; to = &quot;try again&quot; /> </ state > < state name = &quot;submit document&quot; /> < state name = &quot;try again&quot; /> </ process >

20. State Choice // create a configuration Configuration configuration = new Configuration(); // build a process engine from a configuration ProcessEngine processEngine = configuration.buildProcessEngine(); // Obtain the services from the process engine // ProcessEngine and Services are to be used as singletons. // ( ie they are threadsafe ) RepositoryService repositoryService = processEngine.getRepositoryService(); ExecutionService executionService = processEngine.getExecutionService(); TaskService taskService = processEngine.getTaskService();

21. State Choice repositoryService .createDeployment() .addResourceFromClasspath( &quot;org/jbpm/examples/state/choice/process.jpdl.xml“ ) .deploy();

22. State Choice ProcessInstance processInstance = executionService .startProcessInstanceByKey( &quot;StateChoice&quot; ); String executionId = processInstance .findActiveExecutionIn( &quot;wait for response&quot; ) .getId(); processInstance = executionService .signalExecutionById(executionId, &quot;accept&quot; ); assertEquals( &quot;submit document&quot; , processInstance.getActivityName());

23. Designer

24. Console

25. Conclusion jBPM provides overview of application External triggers Wait states Business view jBPM adds a layer on top of TX basics Transactional timers Asynchronous messages Integrates with Standard & Enterprise Java JBoss and other app servers SEAM Spring

26. Q&A

27. Process Concurrency