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Engineering Excellence

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…

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering Excellence

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…

By Nico Rehwaldt

Engineering Excellence

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

Engineering Excellence

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…

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering Excellence

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!

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering Excellence

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

Engineering Excellence

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

Engineering Excellence

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…

By Nico Rehwaldt

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