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Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

Oct 1, 2015

Camunda 7.4.0-Alpha2 released

Today we release Camunda BPM 7.4.0-Alpha2. This is the second alpha release previewing the upcoming 7.4.0 Release. The highlights of this release are: Improved DMN Engine Hit Policies Data Types New Cockpit Features, Auditing of DMN Decisions, BPMN Heat Map, Improved BPMN Engine Support for BPMN Escalation Improved Asynchronous Execution Efficiency SLF4j Logging Faster Deployments Improved CMMN Engine Add Support for Repetition Rule Support for Tomcat 8 New Documentation Many Bugfixes Overall more than 170 issues were closed. See complete Release Notes in Jira. Download For Free Run with Docker DMN Auditing in Cockpit Cockpit now provides a preview of the support for DMN-based Decision Auditing. The dashboard displays now all deployed decision tables. Selecting a decision table opens the…

By Daniel Meyer

Community

Sep 24, 2015

Impressions from Camunda Community Day 2015

Or in other words: Our most awesome community day yet! Last week our annual Camunda Community Day took place. I always enjoy that day very much because it gives me the opportunity to get in touch with community contributors and users. I always learn a lot during these days and I take a lot of energy away from it. Same as last year, the Community Day took place here at the Camunda office in exactly the same space in which we normally sit behind our desks and write code. We had to limit reservations to 100 (including ourselves). Two things struck me with this: when we announced the date in Camunda Network, it was almost instantly sold out, and almost…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

Jul 31, 2015

Camunda BPM 7.4.0 Alpha 1 Released

Today we release Camunda BPM 7.4.0-Alpha1. This is the first alpha release previewing the upcoming 7.4.0 Release. The highlights of this release are: DMN (Decision Model and Notation): DMN Engine and browser based Decision Table Editor, Job Priorities: Control execution order of asynchronous Jobs, Enhanced BPMN Support: add Signal Start events, Compensation Event Subprocess, enhanced asynchronous continuations for Multi Instance Activities, Native support for File Variables in Api and Html Forms, Many Bugfixes Overall more than 140 issues were closed. See complete Release Notes in Jira. Download For Free Run with Docker DMN: Decision Model and Notation This is the first release which supports DMN (Decision Model and Notation). DMN is a new OMG (Object Management Group) standard for Business…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

Jul 28, 2015

Setting up a Development Environment for Camunda HTML Forms

Are you developing HTML forms for Camunda Tasklist? Are you re-packaging your application with maven and re-deploying it to Tomcat or WildFly for each HMTL form change? Are you annoyed by this? 🙂 There is hope: this post explains how to setup a development environment which allows you to develop forms inside Camunda Tasklist and refresh your changes without re-packaging and re-deploying your application. We use this kind of setup ourselves when working on the Invoice Example which is provided with the Camunda Distribution. In the following I am assuming that you have setup an application according to the blueprint provided by our Getting Started Guide. Step 1: Adding a Maven Profile for development First you need to add a…

By Daniel Meyer

Community

Jun 19, 2015

Spring Boot Support in Camunda – new Community Extension

I am very, very excited about this: the Camunda community now actively collaborates around providing support for Spring Boot. This is extremely cool and allows users to deploy Camunda process engine including the Rest Api and the Webapplication in Spring Boot. The project is in a very early stage, if you want to participate, join the ongoing discussion on the dev list and checkout the sources in GitHub! Many thanks to Oliver Steinhauer who provided an initial implementation that the community decided to collaborate around.

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

Jun 15, 2015

Would you use Apache Cassandra for Camunda persistence?

I am currently planning a hack session with people who are interested in using Apache Cassandra as database for Camunda Process engine. Their main motivation for supporting us is that their whole application is running on Apache Cassandra and they want to use Cassandra as persistence provider for their workflows as well. They have extensive experience with Cassandra and want to contribute their work as open source. If the hacksession which will take place at the beginning of July is successful, we would setup a public repository on GitHub were the community could collaborate around this. I have blogged about our friends at Zalando doing work in that direction as well. Would more people be interested in being able to…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

May 29, 2015

Camunda BPM 7.3.0 Final Released

I’m pleased to announce the availability of Camunda 7.3.0 Final. The release focuses on improving Camunda BPM for large production deployments. The highlights are: Process instance repair and modification: go back or skip ahead in a process. Authorizations: restrict access to processes, tasks and administrative actions. Search for process instances and incidents in Cockpit Starting new process instance at any activity / set of activities Tasklist extensibility and customization: extend the Tasklist Web Application with Html and Javascript based plugins. A detailed feature overview can be found at the end of this the post. Download For Free Run with Docker Register for the Webinar Process Instance Repair and Modification Sometimes process instances somehow take a wrong turn or end up…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

Apr 24, 2015

Camunda BPM 7.3.0-alpha3 released

A new alpha release of our open source BPM and Workflow platform is available for download. The highlights of this release are: Process Engine Java and REST API Process-level authorizations: define ACL-like authorizations for restricting possible interactions with process-related resources (Process Definitions, Process Instances, Tasks …), in both Java and REST API. Deep tissue refactoring of implementation of Multi Instance constructs in process engine. Many, many bug fixes related to multi instance, event sub processes, boundary events and compensation. API for process instance repair: Modify a process instance’s execution structure through the ability to start and cancel activities in a flexible way. Job Executor Threadpool can be configured for shared process engine in Apache Tomcat Improved Error Handling: call activities…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

Mar 17, 2015

New Camunda Workbench Release – Adds Stepping in Debugger

After a one day hack session, Nico and myself are proud to release a new version of Camunda Workbench. The Highlights of this Release are: Upgrade bpmn.io to v0.9.0 Create a new process Debugger now has stepping support Breakpoints after activities Display the type of variables Enhanced Script Editing What is Camunda Workbench? Camunda Workbench is the next big thing in browser-based tooling for BPMN based process automation 🙂 But most and foremost: Workbench is AWESOME! It brings use cases around modeling and execution of processes close together. In workbench you can model a process, deploy it to Camunda BPM Process Engine and then debug it in an interactive way. See for yourself: Camunda Workbench – Create and debug a…

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