Camunda Blog
17 mai 2013
Extending Camunda Cockpit through Plugins
As we have seen in the past, it is impossible for Camunda Cockpit —our process monitoring tool— to satisfy all needs, out of the box. That is why we have long thought about providing it with an appropriate extension mechanism that empowers users to fit the tool to their very own monitoring needs. With the latest release of Camunda BPM a first version of a plugin system for Camunda Cockpit is finally here. So what is it about? Simply spoken it is about extending the cockpit GUI with custom views on everything that runs with Camunda BPM. Processes, process instances, deployments, tasks… you name it. That may be accomplished by providing backend services that execute custom queries against an engine…
16 mai 2013
camunda BPM 7.0.0-alpha4 released
Release early and release often. Today we bring you the next release of camunda BPM (7.0.0-alpha4). The Highlights are: First cut of new plugin API for camunda cockpit. Added message correlation to REST API. Support for shared process engine in IBM Websphere distribution (enterprise customers only). Read the full release notes in Jira. Message correlation in REST API With the previous release we added a message correlation method to the Java API. With this release we bring the new functionality to the REST API. (Read the docs). The API is pretty straight forward, just execute a POST to the /messageresource. Example: {"messageName" : "aMessage", "businessKey" : "aBusinessKey", "correlationKeys" : { "aVariable" : "aValue" }, "processVariables" : { "aVariable" : "aNewValue", "anotherVariable"…
By Daniel Meyer
14 mai 2013
Camunda BPM 7.0 on WebLogic 12c
If we go on tour together with Oracle I think we have to have Camunda BPM running on the Oracle WebLogic application server 12c (WLS in short). And one of our enterprise customers asked – so I invested a Sunday and got it running (okay – to be honest – I needed quite some help from our Java EE server guru Christian). In this blog post I give a step by step description how run Camunda BPM on WLS. Please note that this is not an official distribution (which would include a sophisticated QA, a comprehensive documentation and a proper distribution) – it was my personal hobby. And I did not fire the whole test suite again WLS – so there might be…
7 mai 2013
Camunda vs. Oracle: Shootout Roadshow
High Noon in BPM City: not a soul walks the dusty main road and the sun glares mercilessly onto El Camundo and his opponent – the Oracle of the Desert. The wireless mouse still rests in his holster, his hand hovers above it – only the slightest quiver reveals Camundo’s tension. Pearly beads of sweat are glistening on Oracle’s face. Who will be the first to shoot off his token? This is close to what you can expect from our Shootout Roadshow, that we will run together with Oracle and Opitz Consulting (the latter as a neutral presenter). The idea is to set Camunda’s and Oracle’s BPM systems against each other and get a direct comparison. On the one hand…
By Jakob Freund
3 mai 2013
camunda BPM 7.0.0-alpha3 released
camunda BPM 7.0.0-alpha3 is out now! It packs a bunch of new features such as support for Spring Process Applications and correlation via the engine’s Java API. First things first: Get it here! Spring Process Applications Use process engines, container-managed or embedded, from within your Spring application context (on Tomcat, Glassfish). See below an example from our getting started guide: Message correlation BPMN offers two incoming message constructs that are supported by the engine: Message start events and intermediate catching message events. Now you have the possibility to deliver messages in one call. Use the RuntimeService#correlateMessage methods to correlate messages to executions waiting for a specific message or start a new process instance. You do not need to know any…
24 avr. 2013
Camunda BPM incubation space launched with contribution by plexiti
I am happy to announce the official launch of the Camunda BPM incubation space with the first large community contribution by plexiti. View it on GitHub: github.com/camunda/camunda-bpm-fluent-testing The goal of the Camunda BPM incubation space is to promote the development of interesting new projects and ideas around BPM, BPMN and process engines. Due to the productization and stabilization focus in the camunda BPM core platform, we decided to separate out these experimental projects from the core platform. The core BPM platform is stable and maintained and can be found in the GitHub repository camunda-bpm-platform. This is also the base for the supported (commercial) camunda BPM platform product. The camunda-bpm-incubation repository contains a list of incubation projects which may be located in that…
By Daniel Meyer
24 avr. 2013
The start of camunda.org community events
Last week we had our first two camunda.org community kick-off events. On Wednesday we were at the Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG in Frankfurt followed by an evening on Thursday at LVM Versicherung in Münster. Both companies successfully work with camunda BPM and have spoken of their experiences with the platform. We also got a chance to present the camunda project to groups of about 20 BPM enthusiasts and had open discussions about aims, preferences, likes and wishes. A lot of positive feedback trickled through this week and more evenings with varying subjects will follow. Make sure to sign up to our newsletter to find out about what’s happening next and check out some pictures below. And last but not least, our…
23 avr. 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
10 avr. 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…
