Camunda Blog
Apr 9, 2013
New: camunda BPM-Community
Process management is not a bureaucratic evil but can be a key instrument for scalable business models. But to do so we need to get rid of our old ways of thinking. Need an example? The whole Zero Code BPM – Illusion, is one of many errors that have dominated process management in the past. On 18th March we released our BPM platform under an open source license as Business Process Management is impossible without IT (not everyone likes this, but it’s just the way it is). But of course BPM requires a lot more than purely a technical platform. That’s why we are also, bit by bit, providing our knowledge that we have acquired over the years. You can…
By Jakob Freund
Apr 7, 2013
The Camunda Hypothesis
Scott Francis has written an excellent post about the core message of our presentation at bpmNEXT. He called it the “Zero Code Hypothesis”. Though Scott’s summary is completely right in its essentials, I would like to put some details straight: We don’t think that “Zero Code BPM” does not work at all – Zero Coding and our approach are both reasonable, depending on what you have and what you need. The real problem is that most of the zero coding BPM vendors claim that you should use their solution for situations where you actually shouldn’t. We do not condemn the ideas and ambitions often associated with the term “ACM”. Quite the contrary, we even believe that our approach is very well…
By Jakob Freund
Apr 5, 2013
camunda modeler 2.0.12 released
Yesterday we released version 2.0.12 of our modeler with a number of bug fixes as well as layout and usability improvements. One highlight is splitting layouted sequence flows to insert new flow elements between two connected nodes. Other things worth noting include Improved integration of the model wizard Proper support for event subprocess / non-interrupting start event Diagram image generation handles spaces in diagram file names correctly We also fixed some crucial bugs, reworked the layouting of participants and the resize behavior of pools, lanes and subprocesses. For details refer to the issues closed in this release or check our detailed technical changelog. As always, upgrade your modeler installation and tell us what you think!
Mar 23, 2013
Camunda @bpmNEXT 2013
bpmNEXT has definitely been a Home Run, as Bruce Silver puts it. Bruce has impressively succeeded in creating a real think tank event for BPM thought leaders sharing their ideas, visions and quite a lot of crazy new stuff around BPM. For those of you who do not know him: Bruce Silver is the BPMN Guru in the US, and I really admire him for both his competence and all that he has done for the standard. Rest assured that a good deal of BPMN’s amazing success is due to him. That said, it should not be surprising how excited I was when discovering in his Review Post a comment about my presentation of Camunda Cycle, one of the numerous…
By Jakob Freund
Mar 22, 2013
A closer look at the Camunda Modeler
Along with the launch of our open-source BPM platform we made the Camunda Modeler available to the public, both as a software and as source code. With the Camunda Modeler, you get at free modeling tool that integrates in your Eclipse IDE and focuses on seamless modeling of process and collaboration diagrams. We invite you to try out the modeler, give us feedback and contribute to it. Present, past and Future The Camunda Modeler is based on the Eclipse BPMN 2.0 Modeler that integrates into the Eclipse IDE. Its aim was to allow users with technical focus to create BPMN 2.0 diagrams and maintain BPMN and Camunda BPM / Activiti specific attributes in those diagrams. Beginning October 2012, we decided to dedicate bigger long term efforts to…
Mar 20, 2013
The HTML5 parts in Camunda BPM
The Camunda bpm stacks currently includes three web apps: cycle, cockpit, Tasklist. All of them are rewrites from a JSF 2.0 ancestor version and with this post I want to explain the decision to built them on a HTML5 plus REST architecture and not with <insert java web framework here>. Its clear that the web itself is based on the client-server principle. Many Web frameworks like JSF, Vaadin etc. implement it like this: Provide a abstraction layer to define the HTML + JS + CSS Code to generate (Java Code, Facelets etc.) which in the end is your application On request, generate the code sent to the browser, initially create a session model for data binding etc. Keep the generated browser client…
Mar 19, 2013
A look at the fresh REST API
Camunda BPM comes with a fresh REST API based on JAX-RS. Its goal is to expose the process engine services as broadly as possible. That means we aim to enable you to interact with process engine services via REST with similar expressiveness as in plain Java. With 7.0.0-alpha1, we provide methods such as task querying that already realize our desired degree of detail (similar for process definitions and instances). For future releases, we plan to broaden the scope to reach the afore-mentioned goal. Use it with a prebuilt distro In 7.0.0-alpha1 the API covers interactions with process definitions, process instances and tasks as documented on camunda.org. Enough to build your first process applications as demonstrated in Camunda’s Tasklist. In our…
Mar 19, 2013
Sandy Kemsley writes about Camunda BPM
Independent BPM Analyst Sandy Kemsley writes about the Camunda BPM launch on column2: https://www.column2.com/2013/03/stick-a-open-source-fork-in-it-camunda-bpm-splits-from-activiti/
By Daniel Meyer
Mar 18, 2013
Camunda forks Activiti and launches Camunda BPM
I am proud to announce that today Camunda launches a new open source BPM project: Camunda BPM. At this juncture we part ways with the Activiti project which we have contributed to since the first days. Leaving Activiti is a sad but necessary step for us. Starting as a consulting company, we have built a customer base of 250+ in little over 4 years. Last year, we entered the BPM vendor business with the Camunda fox BPM platform. Our success and the positive feedback we got from customers made us realize that we have to go all-in. Today, we drop the “fox”-brand and as Camunda BPM, we embark on the journey of building the best BPM platform, under our own leadership & vision. We…
By Daniel Meyer
