JBoss jBPM
hands on
PV207 Anton Giertli
Components
Task 1 - get it running
● Open My Computer
● create C:\temp\<login>
● copy C:\temp\PV207\jbpm620Final-clean.zip to C:\temp\<login>
● extract
● START+R - > cmd - > enter
● C:
● cd C:\temp\<login>\jbpm620Final-clean\wildfly-8.1.0.Final\bin
● standalone.bat -Dorg.kie.override.deploy.enabled=true
Task 2 - explore
● Open http://localhost:8080/jbpm-console in Firefox
● Log in with salaboy/salaboy
● salaboy is member of group admin,analyst,IT,HR,Accounting
● Authoring - > Project Authoring - > change uf-playground to jbpmplayground
-> HR Project - > Hiring business process
Task 3 - Schedule ‘Tech Interview’
● HR Person wants to schedule a Tech Interview
● It can start immediatelly or in X seconds/minutes/hours
● jBPM only accepts format Xs || Xm || Xh
● We want to verify that the Tech Interview was scheduled as expected
●
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● regexp - [0-9][0-9]*[smh]
Task 4 - Contact Interpol Service
● Before signing the contract we want to verify Interpol records for given
candidate
● Interpol has this service exposed via REST
● localhost:8080/wildfly-servlet-async/interpolService
● It takes one query parameter in - ?name=#{name}
● It returns only two possible values - clean or mostWanted as a String
● Print the service response to STDOUT for debugging purposes:
System.out.println("Response from interpol rest resource:"
+processVariableWhichHoldsRestResponse);
Task 5 - conditional logic
● If candidate is mostWanted then contact
Interpol
● If candidate is clean then sign the contract
jBPM vs Bizagi
● Java or MVEL for scipting
● Ease of process import/export either
via *.xml files or using git
approach
● Easily customizable
● Very good logging capabilities
on a server level, easily
configurable
● Large and vivid community forum,
irc, mailing lists..
● OpenSource - you can see the
guts for yourselves https://github.
com/droolsjbpm
● Proprietary scripting language
● Cumbersome process
import/export
● Strict boundaries
● Very poor debug logging
capabilities - root cause never
visible in log
● Help forums often ‘dead’
● Proprietary
Implementing project in jBPM?
● Download http://jbpm.org/download/download.html
● Study http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v6.2/userguide/
● Consult
● http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=jbpm%2Cdrools&uio=d4
● http://jbpm.org/community/forum.html
● 418312@mail.muni.cz