Course Code: jbpmdrools
Duration: 21 hours
Prerequisites:

Good understanding of BPMN, Java Environment, Linux operating system.

Overview:

This course has been created for managers, business analysts, process designers, developers and subject matter experts who want to be able to design, validate and simulate a process with jBPM and also apply business rules to their solution. With Drools, you can write your business rules using almost natural language, therefore reducing the gap between business and IT.

Course Outline:

Introduction to jBPM

  • What is jBPM?
  • Eclipse Editor
  • Web-based Designer
  • jBPM Console

Basics

  • Creating a process
  • Details of different process constructs: Overview
  • Details: Process properties
  • Details: Events
  • Details: Activities
  • Details: Gateways
  • Using a process in your application
  • Eclipse BPMN plugin

Core Engine

  • Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2 specification
  • Persistence and transaction

Designer

  • Support for Domain-specific service nodes
  • Configuring Designer
  • Generation of process and task forms
  • View processes
  • Embedding designer in your own application
  • Visual Process Validation
  • Integration with the jBPM Service Repository
  • Generating code to share the process image, PDF, and embedded process editor
  • Importing existing BPMN2 processes
  • Viewing Process Information

Console

  • Running the process management console
  • Adding new process / task forms
  • REST interface

Short Introduction to Rule Engines

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Expert Systems
  • What is a Rule Engine?
  • Why use a Rule Engine?
  • Advantages of a Rule Engine
  • When should you use a Rule Engine?
  • Scripting or Process Engines
  • When you should NOT use a Rule Engine
  • Strong and Loose Coupling
  • What are rules?

Creating and Implementing Rules

  • Fact Model
  • KIE
  • Eclipse

Domain Specific Language (DSL)

  • Replacing rules with DSL
  • Testing DSL rules

jBPM

  • Integration with Drools

Fusion

  • What is Complex Event Processing?
  • Short overview on Fusion

Rules Testing

  • Testing with KIE
  • Testing with JUnit