jBPM 6 is a flexible business process management suite written in Java that allows organizations to streamline processes. It addresses common process management challenges like inefficient manual processes and lack of visibility. Using jBPM, one customer automated key processes like benefit authorization and reduced customer service time from manual processes. They saw benefits like business users managing rules themselves and policies being consistently interpreted. jBPM 6 is open source and supported in Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.

1. Streamline your processes
with jBPM 6
Jiří Sviták
Quality Engineer
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite

2. Every organization has processes
activities or sets of activities that will accomplish a
specific organizational goal

3. Process management challenges
ineffecient manual processes, lack of consistency,
visibility, agility and error prone

4. Filling the gap with BPM

5. Customer story - pain points
• Inconsistent customer experience at different
touch points and locations
• Service time for each customer too long
• Manual processes for benefit authorization,
reimbursements, invoice control

6. Customer story - solution
• Developed new platform leveraging BRMS
and jBPM to automate key processes &
policies
• 150K authorization requests per day, sub-
second response time
• 50 automated processes, 50M process
instances
• High availability, farm of 4 servers

7. Customer story - benefits
• Business users can manage rules
• Policies interpreted consistently
• Reduced customer service time, happier
customers

8. jBPM 6
• flexible business process management suite
• written in Java
• based on BPMN2 standard
• Kie API (Knowledge Is Everything)
• open source (Apache license)
• support in Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6

9. Organizational structure of
assets
Organizational unit 1
Git repo 1 Git repo 2
Project 1 Project 2 Project 3
Package
Business process Technical ruleTask form Guided rule
Organizational unit 2

10. BUSINESS CENTRAL DEMO

11. Business central / jBPM console

12. Process management screen

13. Process instances

14. Task completion dialog

15. Business activity monitoring

16. BPMN2 Eclipse Modeler

17. How to use jBPM?
• Embedded mode
– jBPM is used in a user application as a
workflow engine library
• Remote mode
– jBPM runs on a remote server as jBPM
Console / Business Central
– REST and JMS interfaces + Java client

18. Remote access
kie workbench
REST JMSHTTP
Profiles Session strategies
full (default)
exec-server
ui-server
Singleton
PerRequest
PerProcessInstance

19. WEB APPLICATION DEMO

20. Process engine API
RuntimeEnvironmentBuilder
RuntimeEnvironment
RuntimeManager
RuntimeEngine
KieSession TaskService
ProcessInstance Task

21. Web application CDI schema
Web application
Application beans Application producers
RuntimeEnvironment
UserGroupCallback
RuntimeManager
TaskService EntityManagerFactory
EntityManager
jBPM engine library
Service producers
HumanTaskServiceProducerRuntimeManagerProducer

22. SOURCE CODE DEMO

23. Thank you for your attention!
• Project information
– http://www.jboss.org/jbpm
– #jbpm at chat.freenode.net
• Web application example
– https://github.com/jsvitak/jbpm-6-examples
• Personal contact
– jsvitak (at) redhat (dot) com