Camunda Blog
Jan 10, 2017
Camunda BPM 7.7.0-alpha1 Released
Camunda 7.7.0-alpha1 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: Webapps: drill down in Metrics Charts and general facelift Core Engine: drastic reduction of optimistic locking exceptions when using Job Executor External Tasks: History API and monitoring in Cockpit Fluent BPMN builder API: now generates BPMN diagram elements Supported Environments: IBM Websphere 9 and OpenJDK 8 Security: salts and stronger hashing of user passwords 32 Bug Fixes The complete release notes are available in Jira. List of known Issues. You can Download Camunda For Free or Run it with Docker.
By Daniel Meyer
Jan 5, 2017
Integrating Camunda and Drupal
Over the last days, I have worked on integrating Camunda into the latest version of Drupal. For the record, Drupal is an Open Source CMS powering a large number of the top websites available on the Internet. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that the combination of Camunda and Drupal is a possible scenario.
Jan 3, 2017
Camunda Modeler 1.6 Released
We are happy to announce the Camunda Modeler version 1.6 release! This release is a colorful one, with the addition of colors to BPMN. We also focused on improving the overall stability of the Modeler. Download the new version from camunda.org.
Dec 28, 2016
Conway’s game of life
The holidays are upon us, time for a lighter kind of blog post: Conways’s game of life on a Raspberry Pi. Conways game of life can be modelled by the following bpmn and dmn: In order to see what is happening the Raspberry Pi was hooked up to a 8×8 LED matrix (can be bought e.g at Adafruit together with the Raspberry Pi 3, breadboard and jumper wires). The LED matrix is driven by a simple program written in Go that receives the information which LED to light or dim through a socket connection from the Camunda engine. The final result can be seen below: Video showing Conway’s game of life in action The process accepts three parameters: rows, cols,…
Dec 23, 2016
Batch Operations with Camunda 7.6
Camunda 7.6 got released few weeks ago and it comes with many new exciting features. One of them is the extended Batch Operation feature and within this post I am gonna tell you what you can do with it and why it is so useful. Before I outline some really good use cases for Batch Operations let’s have a look what the concept actually means. Batch In general, batch processing is a concept in which a number of jobs is executed without manual intervention. Therefore, in Camunda the Batch operation concept can be used to offload workload from the current execution to the background. This means that with the help of this concept operators are able to perform administrative operations…
Dec 15, 2016
How to chain decisions with DRDs
Happy Birthday DMN DMN has proven to be a very popular and well adopted standard for describing and executing business rules. It’s uptake among Camunda users alone has been very impressive, especially considering it’s a standard that’s only about a year old. It’s popularity has given us the perfect excuse to implement even more elements of the standard. In fact since we first started to support it, we’ve been asked about when we intend to implement DRDs (Decision Requirements Diagram). With the release of Camunda 7.6 we’ve done just that. This post is simply a way of showing how to use DRDs and is especially relevant if you’re already familiar with DMN tables. Assignment Use Case DMN has become a…
By Niall Deehan
Dec 9, 2016
Camunda BPM Spring Boot 2.0.0 released
Today is a great day for the Camunda Spring Boot starter extension: after three month of hard (but mostly fun) work, we are proud to announce the release of 2.0.0. We decided to switch to a new major version, because a lot of things changed: new groupId: org.camunda.bpm.extension.springboot and a new maven module structure switch to Java 8 switch to Spring Boot 1.4.2 switch to Camunda BPM 7.6.0 Besides those internal enhancements, we worked on stability, convenience and support of the enterprise edition.
By Jan Galinski
Nov 30, 2016
Camunda BPM 7.6.0 Released
Camunda 7.6.0 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: DMN Decision Requirements Diagrams (Engine, Modeler, Cockpit) Shiny new Dashboard (Cockpit) BPMN Conditional Events (Engine, Modeler) Batch Operations (Engine, Cockpit) CMMN modeling and monitoring (Modeler, Cockpit) Human Task Monitoring and Reporting (Cockpit) Rolling Updates (Engine) 148 Bug Fixes List of known Issues The complete release notes are available in Jira. This is a joint release of the BPM Runtime Platform and the Camunda Modeler version 1.5. You can Download Camunda For Free or Run it with Docker. DMN Decision Requirements Diagrams With this version, DMN gets a major feature update: Model, execute and monitor DMN Decision Requirements Diagrams (DRDs), Model, execute and monitor DMN Literal Expressions….
By Daniel Meyer
Nov 30, 2016
Camunda Modeler 1.5 Released
We are happy to announce the Camunda Modeler version 1.5 release! This release adds the ability to model Decision Requirement Diagrams (DRDs). On top of that, it brings huge performance improvements when working with large diagrams (BPMN, CMMN and DMN) and feature parity with Camunda BPM 7.6. Download the new version from camunda.org.
