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Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide
A practical guide to designing and developing BPMNbased business processes About This Book
Detailed coverage of the various BPM notations used for business process development.
Learn how to implement business processes based on real world examples.
Understand how to deploy workflows using process engine APIs.
Create Advance workflows using BPM Notations.
Learn how to use Activiti BPM quickly and efficiently with practical examples and step-by-step instructions
Who This Book Is For
Setup the Activiti framework and create your first Activiti application
Learn about the Activiti Modeler and how to export and import models
Setup the Activiti Designer and start developing applications
Understand the Activiti Development Environment and how to configure the mail server
Create sub processes, parallel gateways, and implementing event and task listeners
Understand how Activiti integrates with Business Rule, Liferay, ECM, OSGI, and Camel
Implement REST services, parallel gateways, multi-instance processes, and event and task listeners
Learn about starting, deploying, and suspending processes
In Detail
Detailed coverage of the various BPM notations used for business process development.
Learn how to implement business processes based on real world examples.
Understand how to deploy workflows using process engine APIs.
Create Advance workflows using BPM Notations.
Learn how to use Activiti BPM quickly and efficiently with practical examples and step-by-step instructions
Who This Book Is For
This book is primarily intended for Business Analysts (BAs) who need to develop a process model for implementation in a Business Process Management system. The book assumes that you have basic knowledge of business analysis; however, no Activiti or Java knowledge is required.
What You Will LearnSetup the Activiti framework and create your first Activiti application
Learn about the Activiti Modeler and how to export and import models
Setup the Activiti Designer and start developing applications
Understand the Activiti Development Environment and how to configure the mail server
Create sub processes, parallel gateways, and implementing event and task listeners
Understand how Activiti integrates with Business Rule, Liferay, ECM, OSGI, and Camel
Implement REST services, parallel gateways, multi-instance processes, and event and task listeners
Learn about starting, deploying, and suspending processes
In Detail
Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform targeted at business people, developers, and system administrators. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. Activiti runs in any Java application on a server, cluster and in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring and it is based on simple concepts making it easy for users to maximize its potential.
Activiti BPM Beginner's Guide quickly introduces you to the Activiti Business Process Management methodology. This book will serve as an extremely useful starter guide for developers working on Activiti BPM who wish to integrate Activiti with other technologies.If you want to take full advantage of the power of the Activiti BPM, then this is the book for you.
This book will teach you how to design advanced business workflows through easy steps as well as how to integrate your creations with various third party services. It will take you through a number of clear, practical steps that will help you to implement business workflow using standard BPMN notation.
The key aim of this book is to guide you through how to develop business workflows so you can eventually remove the gap between the business analyst and the developer. The book focuses on development and delivery using Activiti BPM through integrating, migrating, and upgrading some advanced technological tools.
You will learn everything you need to know to design effective and advanced business workflows and how to implement them with different applications.
This book should be in the tool belt of any business analyst who wishes to model business processes and use these models to generate a fully-functioning workflow application.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
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May 12, 2014
I had the opportunity to read the book when I was involved in a project development that uses Activiti workflow engine as main core technology. After working with the software in the last year, I can assume I'm not more a beginner, but I've enjoyed the book's approach to the topic.
The book provides a simple but extended introduction to Activiti's base architecture, starting with a ready-to-use example.
The english language in the book is simple and understandable even for non english-speakers.
The strenght points of this product resides in the very extensive explanation of the Activiti engine services, even in the REST interface chapter, which is the most interesting part, in my opinion.
Some weak points are due to the lack of indentation and formatting of code, expecially in the xml examples which makes hard to read the code.
The book, at the end, remain a good start for who want to learn Activiti from scratch and provides an updated reference respect to other Activiti-related books, and a more readable content respect to the official user guide.
The book provides a simple but extended introduction to Activiti's base architecture, starting with a ready-to-use example.
The english language in the book is simple and understandable even for non english-speakers.
The strenght points of this product resides in the very extensive explanation of the Activiti engine services, even in the REST interface chapter, which is the most interesting part, in my opinion.
Some weak points are due to the lack of indentation and formatting of code, expecially in the xml examples which makes hard to read the code.
The book, at the end, remain a good start for who want to learn Activiti from scratch and provides an updated reference respect to other Activiti-related books, and a more readable content respect to the official user guide.
April 23, 2014
As a Activiti project member I appreciate:
effort which authors dedicated to this book,
book's contribution for the Business Process Management beginners.
From my point of view following items could be improved:
The target audience is business analysts (book is too technical, but BA should have some technical background), developers (too simple), project managers (book is too technical and do not focus on BPM solutions' project management)
used activiti version is 5.13 (the latest released activiti version is 5.15.1 now)
examples (especially process definitions) are hard to read
the book tries to follow BPM life-cycle (design, modeling,...). It is hard to cover whole BPM life-cycle with one product (even with Activiti).
effort which authors dedicated to this book,
book's contribution for the Business Process Management beginners.
From my point of view following items could be improved:
The target audience is business analysts (book is too technical, but BA should have some technical background), developers (too simple), project managers (book is too technical and do not focus on BPM solutions' project management)
used activiti version is 5.13 (the latest released activiti version is 5.15.1 now)
examples (especially process definitions) are hard to read
the book tries to follow BPM life-cycle (design, modeling,...). It is hard to cover whole BPM life-cycle with one product (even with Activiti).
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