Camunda Blog
Aug 31, 2018
Camunda 7.10.0-alpha3 Released
Camunda BPM 7.10.0-alpha3 is here and the highlights are: Extending “Handle External Task BPMN Error” Complete Hierarchical History Cleanup 9 Bug Fixes Together with the third alpha of platform, we released also: Spring Boot Starter 3.1.0-alpha1 – release notes Node.js external task client 1.1.0-alpha1 for non-Java developers – release notes Java external task client 1.1.0-alpha1 – can be embedded in Java applications, release notes You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker. If you are interested, you can see the complete release notes and the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
Aug 31, 2018
Introducing Embedded Forms Generator: A Camunda Modeler Plugin for Easier Embedded Form Building
Tl;dr We just released a new Camunda Modeler plugin that makes it possible to preview task forms and to automatically generate HTML for embedded task forms–all without leaving the Camunda Modeler. The plugin makes it much faster and easier to do form prototyping at the beginning of a project and then get up and running with an embedded task form. While some workflow automation use cases can be solved with “straight-through processing”–that is, a process where all tasks are completed by software systems and with no manual intervention–we human beings still have an important role to play in many scenarios. For reasons ranging from regulatory compliance to quality assurance, BPMN’s user task is frequently a part of process models. And…
By Felix Mueller, Mike Winters
Aug 30, 2018
Camunda Modeler 2.0 Released
We are happy to announce the Camunda Modeler 2.0 release. The new Modeler ships with major improvements to BPMN editing and another round of minimap enhancements. A brand new properties panel for DMN adds support for Camunda specific properties and allows you to inspect and edit technical DMN properties in one place. Finally, the modeler now ships with signed executables, allowing you to safely employ it, even in locked down, corporate environments on both MacOS and Windows.
Aug 30, 2018
What’s New In Zeebe: Message Events, Receive Tasks, CamundaCon Berlin, Kafka Summit San Francisco, and More
Hello Zeebe community! We’re back with a “What’s New” post for August 2018 where we’ll share updates about features in Zeebe, upcoming events where you can meet our team, and other general happenings in the project.
Aug 29, 2018
RPA and Camunda BPM: Integrate a Software Robot by Using External Tasks
In my recent post on RPA, I used asynchronous REST calls to integrate UiPath with Camunda. This only works if your RPA solution provides an API that can be used by third-party applications. Since I promised you that there would be a follow-up post, I want to take the opportunity to show you another approach of integrating an RPA tool with Camunda. This time, I decided to try out WorkFusion’s RPA Express, which is available for free. Scenario The overall scenario for using an RPA product is the same that I described in my last post — you need to replace manual work with an automated task, but the external system does not provide an API that can be called…
Aug 29, 2018
Stateful Orchestration (or, Why Your Microservices Application Needs a Brain)
When checking in for a flight online, normal people hope that everything works the way it’s supposed to. That usually means no error messages, and at the end of the process, getting a boarding pass in your selected format. We at Camunda, however, are not “normal people”. A problem during check-in is a bit of a thrill for us because it gives us a peek into how a company handles software failures in a high-traffic application. We never know exactly what’s happening under the hood, of course, but we like to speculate.
Aug 14, 2018
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Camunda BPM: A demo on using UiPath robots within a BPMN workflow
Having read Mike’s post on why it makes sense to combine RPA products with Camunda BPM, I got curious about prototyping an example with a specific RPA tool. I decided to work with UiPath since it’s been getting a lot of attention from the community. In this post, I want to share what I learned and what I built during my one-week journey into the world of RPA. Scenario The example can be applied to any scenario where you need to replace manual work (the User Task in BPMN) with an automated task and where an external system — often a legacy graphical user interface — does not provide an API that can be called directly from Camunda. So instead…
Aug 9, 2018
BPMN and Microservices Orchestration, Part 2 of 2: Graphical Models, Simplified Sagas, and Cross-functional Collaboration
This is part 2 in a 2-part series about BPMN and how it’s being applied to new use cases. You can find part 1 here. A sincere thanks to Bernd Rücker for his feedback during the writing of both blog posts. Welcome back to our discussion of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) and its role in emerging use cases such as microservices orchestration. You don’t have to read the posts in order to be able to follow along, but if you’re new to BPMN, you might find it helpful to start with part 1. To recap, the first post covered: An introduction to BPMN Why a well-established standard that thrived in the past can thrive in the future, too…
Aug 3, 2018
Camunda 7.10.0-alpha2 Released
The second alpha release of Camunda BPM 7.10 is here and the highlights are: Cascading History Cleanup based on process hierarchy Notable security fixes Start process list changes in Tasklist Modify single process asynchronously More supported environments – PostgreSQL 10.4 and MariaDB 10.3 18 Bug Fixes
