Feb 6, 2014
camunda Modeler Standalone 1.0.0 released as an official part of camunda BPM
The camunda Modeler Standalone is a tool that allows you to create, view and edit BPMN process and collaboration diagrams in a seamless way. I am happy to say that the project, previously a side project of mine, is now an official part of camunda BPM. Today we released version 1.0.0 as the first stable version of the modeler. Get it now. As part of camunda BPM the camunda Modeler Standalone got its own place on camunda.org and a one-click-to-distribution build. From now on, it will be subject to our extensive QA and receive support through our forums. Under the Hood The camunda Modeler Standalone is open-source on GitHub. It has our camunda Modeler BPMN 2.0 plug-in for Eclipse under the hood. In fact, both share more than 95% of the…
Jan 31, 2014
Camunda BPM 7.1.0-alpha2 released
It was a hard time of two months without a new Camunda BPM release, but the waiting came to an end today. We are happy to announce the first release of 2014: Camunda BPM 7.1.0-alpha2. The highlights of this release are: engine: enhance PVM Atomic Operation and Graph Model to provide facility for an activity to cancel a scope or be executed concurrently to activities in the same scope. This refactoring has the following positive effects: write History for Boundary Events, Intermediate Catch Events following an Event Based Gateway Execution Listeners on cancel scope / concurrent activities now work proper and fixed a lot of further bugs a Receive Task with a message reference can be triggered like an ordinary event…
Jan 22, 2014
Benchmarking Performance of camunda Process Engine – Broken SSDs and some Numbers
Yesterday morning I posted some details about our current performance testing efforts. At that point I was still developing the performance testing framework and using the H2 in-memory database when running tests, just to check whether everything runs clean. Yesterday evening, finally, I wanted to run some tests on a “real” database. I hadn’t done any serious performance testing since a couple of month back when we released camunda BPM 7.0 Final and in the meantime I have switched my operating system from Windows 7 to Ubuntu Linux. Turns out that Linux is much more serious when it comes to I/O errors and broken SSDs. But more on that later. Let’s start with some numbers. Some Numbers We ran…
By Daniel Meyer
Jan 21, 2014
Gaining insight into the Performance of camunda Process Engine
The camunda process engine has a very active codebase and is constantly evolving. Only last week we did a major refactoring, re-implementing the way the BPMN Boundary Event, Event Subprocess, Terminate End Event and similar constructs work. In summer we introduced an activity instance model and rewrote the history implementation, turning it into a fire-and-forget event stream.We also constantly add new features such as incidentsand many others. When doing such refactorings, the extensive process engine testsuite gives us the confidence that we do not break existing functionality from a functional perspective (process engine currently has 1669Testases, over 500 were added last year). On top of that, we put quite some effort into database migration testing, making sure that you can…
By Daniel Meyer
Jan 14, 2014
Get your Tasklist as RSS Feed
I don’t like watching my Tasklist all day. Getting email notifications for tasks that I should complete is nice, but sometimes I don’t want to complete the task right after being notified but still need to keep in mind there is something pending. This is how I came to create a simple PHP script that exposes my tasks as an RSS Feed. I can use that in my personal master dashboard (Microsoft Outlook) to keep track of my camunda Tasklist. Here is the result: Huh wow, how did I do that? I used the camunda BPM PHP SDK plus 40 lines of code. You can find them here: Tasklist RSS Sources
By Jakob Freund
Jan 7, 2014
Three new core Developers join camunda BPM Team
A warm welcome to the new guys! I am very happy to announce that last week, three new core developers joined our team here at camunda. Here they are: Danny Gräf Danny is an experienced developer and will focus on the backend side of things: process engine, databases, programming models (Spring / CDI) and application server integration. His GitHub Profile: https://github.com/dgf Sebastian Menski Sebastian is an expert in distributed systems and networking and joins us as core process engine hacker. His GitHub Profile: https://github.com/menski Valentin Vago Valentin is a seasoned Frontend Developer and JavaScript hacker. We are excited to have our first “pure” fronted developer on the team and we are looking forward to the great features he is going…
By Daniel Meyer
Dec 19, 2013
Camunda Modeler as a standalone tool
As a small little side project I was working on a standalone version of the Camunda BPMN 2.0 modeling plugin for Eclipse. The Camunda Modeler standalone offers nice little features to better integrate with the operating system and focuses 100% on process modeling. It is available for Mac, Linux and Windows. Update (2014-02-05) The project is now an official part of Camunda BPM. Read the official announcement or check out its home on camunda.org. Features Notable features are the nice little desktop icon for the modeler as well as the ability to directly open BPMN diagrams via double click. Showcase Have a look on the short video that showcases the application: Try it! The Camunda Modeler Standalone is available for download for…
Dec 11, 2013
Get your own camunda BPM T-Shirt!
Still need a Christmas present? How about a cool camunda BPM T-Shirt? Various team members designed the Shirts themselves and we got quite some response throughout the year. So we will make them available to you! OK – to be honest we will not make it before Christmas – but you can look forward to your new Shirt early in 2014! T-Shirts cost 20 € each (including shipping within Germany – ask us for international shipment options if applicable). We collect orders from now on till 31st of December, order the bunch of T-Shirts and ship them in January to you. How does that sound? If you are interested please send an email to t-shirt@camunda.com with exact amount, style, color, size…
Dec 9, 2013
camunda Modeler 2.3.1 released: Fixes installation issues
Some users experienced difficulties installing version 2.3.0 of the camunda Modeler from our update site. This patch release fixes the installation issues. Grab it if you had trouble installing.
