A Business Process Management System (BPMS) offers you the capabilities to better manage and streamline your business processes. JBoss continues expanding its vision in this area by offering a lightweight process engine for executing business processes, combined with the necessary services and tooling to support business processes in their entire life-cycles. This allows not only developers but also business users to manage your business processes more efficiently. A lot has happened in the BPM area over the last few years, with the introduction of the BPMN 2.0 standard, the increasing interest in more dynamic and adaptive processes, integration with business rules and event processing, case management, etc. In this session, we will show you how JBoss BRMS leverages the jBPM project to tackle these challenge and give you an overview of its most important BPMS features.

1. JBoss BRMS sneak peak,
the future is now for your business processes
Eric D. Schabell
JBoss Technology Evangelist
http://www.schabell.org
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@ericschabell

2. JBoss BRMS Overview
BRMS for Business
BRMS for Developers
What's new?
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3. JBoss Enterprise BRMS
Business
Events
Interacts
Web-based Decision with... Enterprise
development tools Service Application
Business Analysts Web
Event Processor
Repository Service
Deploy Business Process
Business Business
Process Rule & Manager
Definitions Event
Definitions
Java Code
Rule Engine
JBDS, with BRMS
plugins it or
on
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Business
Developers
Users
Management Business
Console Data
Operations
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4. BPMN 2.0
• OMG specification
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Model
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Notation
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Execution semantics
• Understandable by all business users
• Process, collaboration, choreography
• Extensible
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5. BRMS BPM and BPMN2
• Focus on executable processes
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Java environment
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Native execution
• Subset
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Common Executable ++
• High-level and domain-specific
• Minimal custom extensions
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6. JBoss BPMN2 coverage
BPMN2
BRMS (Drools) BRMS (jBPM) Model (Savara)
Rules Choreography
Process
Event Collaboration
WS-BPEL Services
SOA-P (RiftSaw) SOA-P
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7. JBoss BRMS Overview
BRMS for Business
BRMS for Developers
What's new?
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8. Overview
• Business users
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Web process designer
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Dynamic development / teaming
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Adaptive / ad hoc processes
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Human tasks
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Domain specific processes
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Functional administration
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9. Web process designer “One of the best
process editors
in existence.”
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10. Dynamic development
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11. Processes
+
Rules
+
Events

12. Adaptive Process
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13. Human Tasks Example
Business
User
Developer
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14. Automate generation
Generates HTML templates from tasks
Business user generates
task forms from button in
web designer
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15. Human Task Forms
End User
HR
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16. Domain-specific processes
● Hide implementation details
• Extend palette
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17. Domain-specific Service Repository
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18. Administration Console
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19. JBoss BRMS Overview
BRMS for Business
BRMS for Developers
What's new?
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20. Overview
• Technical users
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Core engine / API
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Tooling support
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Transactions / Events
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Easy integration
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Service repository
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Testing
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21. BRMS – BPM core Core
Engine
• Core engine is a workflow engine in pure Java
– state transitions
– lightweight
– embeddable
– generic, extensible
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22. ProcessRuntime interface
• startProcess(processId)
• startProcess(processId, parameters)
• signalEvent(type, event)
• signalEvent(type, event, instanceId)
• abortProcessInstance(instanceId)
• getProcessInstance(instanceId)
“API is much better than competitors.”
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23. Core Engine - BRMS way of working
Stateful “The engine
Knowledge is
Knowledge solid.”
Base Session
Process Process
Definition Instance
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24. BRMS 5.3
tooling support
XML JBDS 5 BPMN2 Editor
● jBPM perspective Core
● project wizards
● process artifact
Engine BPMN
2.0
repository integration
● process debugging
● development views
for human tasks
Web Designer
(business users)
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25. BRMS 5.3 transaction support
JPA
(runtime, history, services)
Persistence
XML
JTA Trans-
(command-scoped, actions
user-defined) Core
Engine BPMN
2.0
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26. BRMS 5.3 event support
Persistence
XML
Trans-
History actions
Core
Log Engine BPMN
2.0
Events
Management
Console
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27. BRMS 5.3 integration support
Persistence
XML
Trans-
actions
Core
Engine BPMN
2.0
Events
Integration
Domain-specific
Processes
Human Task Service
(WS-HT)
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28. Architecture
Your
Applicati JBoss Central
on
Core Services
Your Core History Task
Services Engine Log Service
Rules
Artifact
Repository
JBoss Dev Web-Based
Studio Designer
Developer Business
Analyst
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29. Service repository
• Extend palette with domain-specific, declarative service
nodes
– define input / output parameters
– runtime binding
– repository
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30. Service Repository Node
[
[
"name" : "JavaNode",
"parameters" : [
"class" : new StringDataType(),
"method" : new StringDataType(),
],
"displayName" : "Java Node",
"icon" : "icons/java.gif"
]
]
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31. Testing I
public class MyProcessTest extends JbpmJUnitTestCase {
public void testProcess() {
// create your session and load the given process(es)
StatefulKnowledgeSession ksession =
createKnowledgeSession("sample.bpmn");
// start the process
ProcessInstance processInstance =
ksession.startProcess("com.sample.bpmn.hello");
// check whether process instance completed successfully
assertProcessInstanceCompleted(processInstance.getId(),
ksession);
// check if given nodes executed during process execution
assertNodeTriggered(processInstance.getId(),
"StartProcess", "Hello", "EndProcess");
}
}
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32. public void testProcess2() {
Testing II
// create your session and load the given process(es)
StatefulKnowledgeSession ksession = createKnowledgeSession("sample2.bpmn");
// register a test handler for "Email"
TestWorkItemHandler testHandler = new TestWorkItemHandler();
ksession.getWorkItemManager().registerWorkItemHandler("Email", testHandler);
// start the process
ProcessInstance processInstance =
ksession.startProcess("com.sample.bpmn.hello2");
assertProcessInstanceActive(processInstance.getId(), ksession);
assertNodeTriggered(processInstance.getId(), "StartProcess", "Email");
// check whether the email has been requested
WorkItem workItem = testHandler.getWorkItem();
assertNotNull(workItem);
assertEquals("Email", workItem.getName());
assertEquals("me@mail.com", workItem.getParameter("From"));
assertEquals("you@mail.com", workItem.getParameter("To"));
// notify the engine the email has been sent
ksession.getWorkItemManager().abortWorkItem(workItem.getId());
assertProcessInstanceAborted(processInstance.getId(), ksession);
assertNodeTriggered(processInstance.getId(), "Gateway", "Failed", "Error");
}
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33. JBoss BRMS Overview
BRMS for Business
BRMS for Developers
What's new?
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34. JBoss BRMS in a Nutshell
Pluggable
& JBDS 5 BPMN2 Editor
Standards Persistence
XML
Trans-
actions
Core
History Engine BPMN
2.0 Web Designer
Log (business users)
Events
Integration Domain-specific
Processes
Management Human Task Service
Console (WS-HT)
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35. Operations

jBPM Functional / Technical Operations
– Integration with BRM (process artifacts)
– Web administration console
• Human task management
• process administration
– Pluggable to JBoss Operation Network (JON)
• alerts long running sessions
• knowledge base parameters
• view running sessions
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36. What is not in BRMS
“Team is quick
• Migration tooling to implement
suggestions.”
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jPDL 3.x → BPMN 2
• Eclipse BPMN2 Editor
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http://eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=soa.bpmn2-modeler
• JBPM Forms Builder
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community jBPM 5.3
• Reporting (BAM) in web console
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dependency on BIRT
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see HowToJBoss.com for adding BIRT Reporting and
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37. Rewards Demo
https://github.com/eschabell/brms-rewards-demo
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38. Integration and BPM Week - October 15-18
http://www.redhat.com/promo/jboss_integration_week/
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