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Engineering Excellence

Apr 23, 2013

Camunda BPM 7.0.0-alpha2 released

I am happy to announce the release of Camunda bpm platform 7.0.0-alpha2. This is the first Camunda BPM release that contains a distribution for Glassfish Application Server. You can now download a complete open source BPM platform with fully compliant Java EE 6 integration! Download it now! Highlights: Glassfish 3.x Distribution with Java EE 6 process engine integration New Job Executor Service with JCA 1.6 Integration Job Executor manageability through JMX New space for documentation: https://docs.camunda.org/ with new installation guides. I will dedicate a separate Blogpost to showcasing the Job Executor improvements in the following days. In addition, the release contains a set of small improvements and bug fixes. Read the Complete Release Notes in JIRA. Major QA Infrastructure Improvements Probably not as exciting for most…

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering Excellence

Apr 10, 2013

Camunda BPM Launch Party

After launching our open source platform Camunda BPM on 18th March, we gave it a proper welcoming to the BPM community last week. 55 people showed up to the launch party held at Camunda HQ, which coincided with our 5th birthday. It was a great night, during which the hard-working team around Camunda BPM had the chance to demonstrate some of the platform’s great features and advantages followed by good discussions with the guests afterwards. But not only that, our foosball table, Wii and a fridge filled to the brim with beer made sure that the hard work also paid off with some well-deserved fun. Take a look at some pictures we took on the night and make sure to…

By Nastasja Johnston

Engineering Excellence

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

Engineering Excellence

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!

By Nico Rehwaldt

Engineering Excellence

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

Engineering Excellence

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…

By Nico Rehwaldt

Engineering Excellence

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…

By Andreas Drobisch

Engineering Excellence

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…

By Thorben Lindhauer

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