Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Overview

1.2. The JBoss jBPM starter kit

1.3. The JBoss jBPM graphical process designer

1.4. The JBoss jBPM core component

1.5. The JBoss jBPM console web application

1.6. The JBoss jBPM identity component

1.7. The JBoss jBPM scheduler

1.8. The JBoss jBPM database compatibility package

1.9. The JBoss jBPM BPEL extension

2. Getting started

2.1. Downloadables Overview

2.1.1. jBPM 3

2.1.1.1. The Starters Kit

2.1.1.2. Core Engine and Identity Component

2.1.1.3. Database Extensions

2.1.2. jBPM Process Designer

2.1.2.1. Eclipse Update Site

2.1.2.2. Eclipse Feature

2.1.3. jBPM BPEL extension

2.2. The JBoss jBPM project directory

2.3. Public CVS access

3. Tutorial

3.1. Hello World example

3.2. Database example

3.3. Context example: process variables

3.4. Task assignment example

3.5. Custom action example

4. Graph Oriented Programming

4.1. Missing link

4.2. Graphical representation and the development process

4.3. Traditional approach

4.4. What is Graph Oriented Programming

4.5. Building blocks

5. Deployment

5.1. Runtime Dependencies

5.1.1. Java runtime environment

5.1.2. jBPM libraries

5.1.3. Runtime libraries

5.2. Configuration files

5.2.1. jbpm.properties

5.2.2. Hibernate cfg xml file

5.2.3. Business calendar configuration file

5.2.4. Variable mapping configuration file

5.2.5. Converter configuration file

5.2.6. Default modules configuration file

5.2.7. Process archive parsers configuration file

5.3. jBPM in a web application

5.4. jBPM in an EJB container

6. Persistence

6.1. The persistence API

6.2. Database configuration

6.3. Managing transactions

6.4. The jBPM database

6.4.1. Hibernate integration

6.4.2. Development database is hsqldb

6.4.3. Support for other databases

6.4.4. Caching

6.5. Hibernate customisation

7. Process Modelling

7.1. Overview

7.2. Process graph

7.3. Nodes

7.3.1. Node responsibilities

7.3.2. Nodetype task-node

7.3.3. Nodetype state

7.3.4. Nodetype decision

7.3.5. Nodetype fork

7.3.6. Nodetype join

7.3.7. Nodetype node

7.4. Actions

7.4.1. Action configuration

7.4.2. Action references

7.4.3. Events

7.4.4. Event propagation

7.4.5. Script

7.4.6. Custom events

7.5. Superstates

7.5.1. Superstate transitions

7.5.2. Superstate events

7.5.3. Hierarchical names

7.6. Exception handling

7.7. Process composition

7.8. Custom node behaviour

7.9. Graph execution

8. Context

8.1. Accessing variables

8.2. Variable lifetime

8.3. Variable persistence

8.4. Variables scopes

8.4.1. Variables overloading

8.4.2. Variables overriding

8.5. Transient variables

8.6. Customizing variable persistence

9. Task management

9.1. Tasks

9.2. Task instances

9.2.1. Task instance life cycle

9.2.2. Task instances and graph execution

9.3. Assignment

9.3.1. Assignment interfaces

9.3.2. The assignment data model

9.3.3. Push model

9.3.4. Pull model

9.4. Swimlanes

9.5. Task events

9.6. Task timers

9.7. Task controllers

9.8. Customizing task instances

9.9. The identity component

9.9.1. The identity model

9.9.2. Assignment expressions

9.9.2.1. First terms

9.9.2.2. Next terms

9.9.3. Removing the identity component

10. Scheduler

10.1. Timers

10.2. Scheduler deployment

11. Business calendar

11.1. Duration

11.2. Configuration

12. Logging

12.1. Creation of logs

12.2. Log retrieval

12.3. Database warehousing

13. jBPM Process Definition Language (JPDL)

13.1. The process archive

13.1.1. Deploying a process archive

13.1.2. Process versioning

13.1.3. Process conversion

13.2. Delegation

13.2.1. The jBPM class loader

13.2.2. The process class loader

13.2.3. Configuration of delegations

13.2.3.1. config-type field

13.2.3.2. config-type bean

13.2.3.3. config-type constructor

13.2.3.4. config-type configuration-property

13.3. JPDL xml schema

13.3.1. process-definition

13.3.2. node

13.3.3. common node elements

13.3.4. start-state

13.3.5. end-state

13.3.6. state

13.3.7. task-node

13.3.8. process-state

13.3.9. super-state

13.3.10. fork

13.3.11. join

13.3.12. decision

13.3.13. event

13.3.14. transition

13.3.15. action

13.3.16. script

13.3.17. expression

13.3.18. variable

13.3.19. handler

13.3.20. timer

13.3.21. create-timer

13.3.22. cancel-timer

13.3.23. task

13.3.24. swimlane

13.3.25. assignment

13.3.26. controller

13.3.27. sub-process

13.3.28. condition

13.3.29. exception-handler

14. Security

14.1. Todos

14.2. Authentication

14.3. Authorization

15. TDD for workflow

15.1. Introducing TDD for workflow

15.2. XML sources

15.2.1. Parsing a process archive

15.2.2. Parsing an xml file

15.2.3. Parsing an xml String

15.3. Testing sub processes

16. Pluggable architecture