Filip Hrisavof, Software Engineer at Flowable, talks about how to build your own Flowable Spring Boot application.

1. Building your own Flowable
Spring Boot Application
Filip Hrisafov
-Flowable Core Developer-

2. Spring Boot
• Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone,
production-grade Spring based Application that you can
”just run”
• Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need for WAR)
• Opinionated “starter” dependencies to simplify build
configurations
• Automatically configure Spring and 3rd party libraries
• Production-ready features such as metrics, health checks and
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3. Flowable and Spring Boot
• Support for Spring Boot since Spring Boot 1.0
• On track with every new release of Spring Boot
• Support for Spring Boot 2.0 since Flowable 6.3.0
• Flowable UI Applications and Flowable REST Application
are Spring Boot 2.0 based applications
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4. How to create a Flowable Spring
Boot application
• Go to start.spring.io
• Pick the dependencies you need (web, h2, actuator,
security)
• Add flowable-spring-boot-starter or flowable-spring-boot-
starter-rest
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5. Demo
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Custom Flowable Application

6. Customize your application
• Add custom REST endpoints
• Custom security (custom UserDetailsService)
• Add custom beans
• Customize the engine
(EngineConfigurationConfigurer<…>)
• Spring Cloud Function
• How test
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7. Future work
• Add support for Spring Boot 2.1
• Experiments with Spring Cloud Function
• Expose metrics to Micrometer
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8. Source Code
https://github.com/flowable/flowable-
examples/tree/master/flowfest-2018/demo-own-
application
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9. Thank you!