jBPM for Process Designers

• Basic understanding of BPMN
• Programming skills although not required, are useful (especially Java)

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. It also includes writing unit tests for the processes.

The course usually uses the newest stable version of community jBPM project. Previous versions of jBPM also may be used (approval before booking required)

Overview

• 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
• Other features

Core Engine: BPMN 2

• Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2 specification
• Examples
• Supported elements / attributes

Core Engine: Persistence and transactions

• Runtime State
• Process Definitions
• History Log

Eclipse BPMN 2 Plugin

• Editors available in Eclipse
• Creating your BPMN 2 processes
• Filtering elements and attributes

Designer

• Support for Domain-specific service nodes
• Configuring Designer
• Generation of process and task forms
• View processes as PDF and PNG
• Viewing process BPMN2 source
• 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
• Requirements

Human Tasks

• Human tasks inside processes
• Human task service
• Human task clients

Testing and debugging

• Unit testing
• Debugging

Business Activity Monitoring

• Reporting
• Direct Intervention