Jun 18, 2013
Announcing the Release Date of Camunda BPM 7.0.0 GA
We are proud to announce the major release date of Camunda BPM: 7.0.0 GA* on 31.08.2013 All features will be open source, except for the IBM Websphere AS distribution. From that day on, there will also exist the supported enterprise edition of Camunda BPM. (*General Availability) Highlights of 7.0.0 New webapplication for process monitoring with BPMN 2.0, based on an open plugin infrastructure Faster process engine with asynchronous history, optimized for high load scenarios New embeddable REST API, based on JAX-RS Java Script library for rendering BPMN 2.0 diagrams Support for: Tomcat, JBoss, Glassfish and IBM Websphere AS Enhanced user management, supporting LDAP and JAAS Also new in 7.0.0 Fully Java EE 6 compliant process engine, support for message correlation, HTML5 Tasklist for human workflow, a new incident infrastructure in the process…
Jun 17, 2013
Introducing an Activity Instance Model to the core Process Engine
(this post was originally part of the 7.0.0-alpha6 release blog post but later extracted into an own post). In 7.0.0-alpha6 we introduced the concept of activity instances and the activity instance tree to the core process engine. This post explains the motivation and gives some insight into the internal implementation. Why do we need an Activity Instance Tree? The activity instance tree contains a node for each activity that is currently active in the process instance. Some activity instances are scopes (such as Embedded Sub processes). Such scope activity instance may have child activity instances: So far so good. But is that not the execution tree provided by the process engine? To some extent yes, but not in all cases. There are…
By Daniel Meyer
Jun 14, 2013
camunda BPM 7.0.0-alpha6 released
Today we announce the release of camunda BPM 7.0.0-alpha6. In this release we focused on visualizing process instance state on top of a rendered diagram in cockpit. We added the following features: Process Instance Detail view in cockpit visualizing active activity instances with count Updated process definition view to include failed jobs from sub process instances Greatly improved Javascript BPMN 2.0 Renderer (now feature complete) Added persistent Activity Instance tree in process engine Event Subscription Query is exposed in REST and Java API 41 issues were closed. See the complete release notes in Jira. Process Instance Detail View in Cockpit In cockpit we started work on the process instance detail view. This view will allow you to drill down into…
By Daniel Meyer
May 31, 2013
Camunda BPM 7.0-alpha5 released
Two weeks after the last alpha release we bring you the freshly baked* alpha5 version of the Camunda BPM platform. The highlights of this crispy new release are: Failed jobs plugin in cockpit, Process Instance table in cockpit, Refined client-side plugin infrastructure, New incident infrastructure in process engine, Additions to the REST API, Complete support for websphere application server 8.5 (enterprise customers only) 50 JIRA issues were closed, see the complete release notes. Note: this release contains database changes. Upgrade scripts can be found in the “sql” folder of the distribution. (* using Robert Gimbel’s special homemade yeast) Things are happening in the cockpit Over the last two weeks, process engine hacker Roman Smirnov and JavaScript wizard super magician…
By Daniel Meyer
May 24, 2013
PHP SDK for camunda BPM: new Incubation Project started
If you want to do BPM / Workflow and BPMN 2.0 in PHP then we have good news for you: as part of our camunda BPM polyglot initiative we started a new incubation project which aims at providing a PHP SDK for camunda BPM. This SDK will facilitate the development of PHP-based applications that use the camunda BPM middleware services. The project will provide a client library which authenticates against the REST Api and provide PHP developers with a native API for interacting with the process engine: While the camunda BPM project stays focused on Java as primary programming language, we believe that it is important to support developers that use other programming languages and give them access to the BPMN 2.0…
By Daniel Meyer
May 17, 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…
May 16, 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
May 14, 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…
May 7, 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
