Dec 5, 2013
camunda Modeler 2.3.0 released: Custom Tasks, Form Fields and better Subprocess Modeling
We are happy to announce the new release of the camunda Modeler. This version adds the ability to extend the modeler with custom tasks. Furthermore it adds editing support for form fields that were recently re-introduced into the camunda BPM platform. Last but not least, it improves the handling of subprocesses. Custom Task Plugins Custom task plugins give you the ability to contribute self-made tasks to the camunda modeler. A custom task is a task that may be reused across all of your diagrams. It can ship with a predefined configuration, can have a customized look and feel and integrates into the palette as well as the properties panel. Check out our custom task example that show cases what is possible with…
Nov 29, 2013
camunda BPM 7.1.0-alpha1 released: Task Forms, Job Suspension and Bugfixes
I am proud to announce the release of camunda BPM 7.1.0-alpha1. This is the first community alpha release in the 7.1 branch. The highlights of this release are: Enhanced support for HTML5 Embedded Task Forms (Quickstart Example, Docs), Add support for Generated Task Forms (Blogpost, Quickstart Example, Docs), Add support for “Job Definitions” allowing to query, suspend & activate Job Execution by individual Activity at Process Definition Level (Docs), Add support for suspending Process Definition, Process Instances and Job Definitions in cockpit, Upgrade JBoss Application Server Support from 7.1.3 to 7.2 / EAP 6.1 (Docs), Fixed OSGi Manifest Headers (community contribution by Ronny Bräunlich) 32 Bug Fixes See the complete release notes in Jira. Download camunda BPM 7.1.0 alpha1 What’s next? We…
By Daniel Meyer
Nov 29, 2013
Monitor collaborating executable BPMN 2.0 processes in cockpit
In a current customer project we faced the issue that there were two executable processes – independent of each other. So far – so normal. But these two processes had to sync status here and there – so they were clearly related, but not by using a Call Activity. BPMN 2.0 allows this by communication via messages as shown in the following example. But how to keep track of this in monitoring? We developed a small cockpit plugin to show the related process instances – see below. The process is in the area of IT infrastructure management, where changes are handled by multiple different change processes handled by different departments which are pretty autonomous. But actually for today’s post it is not…
Nov 18, 2013
Create a camunda BPM Process Application using Maven Archetype in 1 minute
For quite some time we already use Maven Archetypes in our camunda BPM training and at customer projects to create camunda BPM Process Applications – which are normally simple Maven projects.I created a 30 seconds survey to get feedback on archetypes. We currently have two archetypes available: war: Use on Servlet containers like Tomcat. ejb: Use on EJB containers like JBoss AS, WebSphere, Glassfish or WebLogic. You can find the full documentation online: Maven Archetypes (Project Templates).So you can start using it today. Give us feedback! We currently discuss how important archetypes are for our community and what types of archetypes we should provide (if any). Please take 30 seconds to fill in our survey. Thank you!
Nov 15, 2013
camunda BPM PHP SDK v1.1.0 released
Today we released version 1.1.0 of the PHP SDK. The highlights of this release are: Add compatibility with camunda BPM 7.0.0 Final Fully object oriented API Improved test coverage through PHPUnit Add support for composer The packages are pushed to Packagist. camunda PHP SDK allows PHP users to interact with the process engine and build BPMN 2.0 and Workflow enabled applications. Start reading the documentation.
By Daniel Meyer
Nov 10, 2013
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Service Invocations – BPMN Service Task (1)
The BPMN 2.0 Specification provides the Service Task activity allowing users to invoke some application service. In this Blogpost I want to explain the difference between a synchronous and an asynchronous service invocation in Camunda BPM. NOTE: this blogpost covers the topic at an abstract level. If you are looking for concrete, ready-to-use examples, have a look at our quickstart repository: quickstart on synchronous service invocations quickstart on asynchronous service invocations Synchronous Service Invocations Let’s start with synchronous service invocations. A synchronous service invocation follows the well-known Request/ Response Pattern: The process engine performs a synchronous request to a service and waits for a response. The characteristic property of this invocation pattern consists in the fact that the process engine…
By Daniel Meyer
Nov 8, 2013
camunda Modeler 2.2.0 released: Kepler support and modeling improvements
Today we are happy to announce the new release of the camunda Modeler. This version adds official support for Eclipse Kepler. On top of that it ships with the ability to change the type of tasks, events and gateways as well as a simplified connection of elements. Eclipse Kepler Support Kepler support is finally there. Head over to the downloads site and get a fresh version of the modeler, ready for Kepler. Morphing áka Changing Flow Node Types Morphing flow nodes to different types is something we are pretty exited about because it makes it a lot easier to change existing process models. Thanks to Roman, this feature is now available via the actions menu as two small gears for…
Oct 31, 2013
How to send an email when a usertask is assigned
“I don’t want to watch my camunda Tasklist all day. When there is something to do, I want to get an email containing a link that takes me directly to the respective task!” This is a typical statement by process participants (aka business users). There are numerous possible ways to implement such a requirement in your process application, e.g. using a service task: But this is not really appropriate, since it makes the process model rather verbose and therefore less valuable for business-IT-alignment. The more elegant way is to use a task listener: This very powerful concept is described in detail in the userguide, and the behavior we want is a perfect use case, so let’s see how it works!…
By Jakob Freund
Oct 23, 2013
What a wonderful community day in Prague
Last Friday we had our first camunda BPM community day! It was really awesome! Thanks everybody who joined. I am really impressed that we could organize that so close after the 7.0 release and so many people already traveled to Prague just for us. I can just repeat myself: AWESOME! Today I want to share some impressions and slides with you – we recorded the sessions and hope we will get videos online soon as well. Introduction & Vision After welcoming everybody Daniel talked about camunda BPM and the technical vision, which is about to empower developers to build awesome BPM applications. He briefly discussed the improved performance in 7.0 and I saw a lot of people nodding when Daniel…
