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Scripting Everywhere in camunda BPM

With the last camunda BPM 7.2.0-alpha3 release we heavily extended the scripting support of the camunda BPM platform. We started to improve scripting support with the 7.2.0-alpha1 release and now we think we are done. It is now your turn to start using the different scripting languages and help us to polish this feature for our final release. To get an detailed overview of the scripting support please visit our user guide.   Where can I use scripts? Everywhere but to be more specific you can use scripts as: Script tasks (of course) Execution listener Task listener Condition of sequence flows Input output mapping (added in 7.2.0-alpha2) The implementation of the scripting support in camunda BPM is designed to be independent…

By Sebastian Menski

Engineering

The Case for Open Source Embedded Case Management

In camunda BPM we enhance our lightweight embedded BPMN Process Engine with case management features based on CMMN. CMMN is the new emerging industry standard for (Adaptive) Case Management (ACM) developed by the OMG (Object Management Group), the same consortium which is also behind  the BPMN 2.0 standard. I believe that lightweight open source solutions based on open standards can make a difference in the case management space. This is why. The traditional “hard-coded” Approach Traditionally, case management applications were hard coded. If an enterprise needed an application for handling credit applications, it would call on to their Java Developers (or worse: their Cobol Mainframe Developers), there would be some kind of software specification document written and the developers would…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering

Advanced Asynchronous Continuations in camunda BPM

Asynchronous continuations are a a very powerful process engine feature. Up until now you could use asynchronous continuations in two ways:   Before an activity. Asynchronous process instantiation using the async start event. (Added in 7.0). With camunda BPM 7.2.0-alpha3, Asynchronous continuations become even more powerful: You can now place an asynchronous continuation AFTER an activity. (HOT!) Asynchronous continuations are now supported on more BPMN 2.0 constructs, such as the Parallel Gateway. Why Asynchronous Continuations? Asynchronous continuations are break-points in the process execution. They are used as transaction boundaries and allow another thread than the currently active thread to continue execution.   From a use case perspective   Async is used for placing a safe-point before an activity such that…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering

camunda BPM 7.2.0-alpha3 released: CMMN, Scripting, Async, Correlation, Model Api, Forms

Today we release camunda BPM 7.2.0-alpha3. Usually when we do a new alpha release, I write a Blogpost which gives an overview over the new features added in that release. But this time I cannot do that: there are simply too many new features to cover in a single blog post! So this time I will just give a bullet point list with the highlights and you guys will just have to wait for additional blogposts to come out in the next days. So what is in the new Release? CMMN support is greatly enhanced. (CMMN is the emerging OMG standard for Case Management). Documentation. Support the basic case instance and plan item lifecycle, support for stages, human tasks, case tasks…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering

Automated UI testing with Camunda web applications and IntelliJ IDEA

Automated user interface (UI) tests are an effective way to ensure the functionality of your webapp. Furthermore, they serve as E2E tests as they simulate real user interaction and stimulate the whole application down to the database. BUT, automated UI tests are presumed to be hard to maintain and difficult to understand. Small changes in the webapp’s GUI have massive impact on the test suite to result in refactoring the test cases. Especially when the tests are built by screen recorder. Another weakness is the response of UI tests. UI tests are perfect to avoid regression running on a CI server all night long. But what if the front-end developer wants to get quick feedback during development? In this post…

By Michael Schöttes

Community

camunda-bpm-platform-osgi 1.0 released as a community extension

camunda-bpm-platform-osgi is a community extension that provides support for Camunda BPM platform inside OSGi containers. It is a pleasure for me to announce that Ronny Bräunlich has just released version 1.0 of the library. Read the official release blog post and make sure to fork the project on GitHub.

By Roman Smirnov

Engineering

Camunda BPM 7.2.0-alpha2 released

Today we announce the next alpha release of Camunda BPM platform. The highlights of this release are: Deploy and instantiate CMMN Case Definitions, New Tasklist Skeleton I/O Mappings for BPMN 2.0 Activities and Events Xml Data processing in Java, Expression Language and Script Languages Simple SOAP Http Connector See complete release notes in Jira. Download Camunda BPM 7.2.0-alpha2 now. Deploy and instantiate CMMN Case Definitions We are making good progress on CMMN support in the process engine. CMMN is an emerging OMG standard for Case Management. It is now possible to deploy and instantiate a CMMN Case Definition using both Java and REST API. In the next release we will provide support for CMMN human tasks, manual activation completing cases…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering

Testing BPMN processes with fluent assertions: Awesome!

Sometimes this topic comes up in the Camunda Platform forum and I cannot stress & highlight this enough! 🙂 Writing test cases for your BPMN processes is a vital part of good process implementation. However, writing good, maintainable testcases can be cumbersome because you may have to write a lot of boilerplate code and the resulting testcases are often hard to read and understand. As a community extension, Martin Schimak has developed a fluent and well readable API, Camunda BPM assert: Awesome, right? Using the API frees your test code of a lot of boilerplate details, makes it easy to read and maintain. Without assert, that same testcase would look like this: From a project management perspective, the project is very mature…

By Daniel Meyer

Product

bpmn.io now with full BPMN render support

bpmn.io, the open source Javascript BPMN toolkit released a new version, now with full BPMN rendering support. Read more in Joerg’s Blogpost: https://bpmn.io/blog/posts/2014-003-full-bpmn-render-support.html

By Daniel Meyer

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