Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Installing Activiti -- Getting started with Activiti BPM -- The Activiti Engine -- The Activiti Modeler -- The Activiti Designer -- The Activiti Explorer -- The Activiti REST -- Downloading and installing Activiti BPM -- Prerequisites for Activiti -- JDK 6 or higher -- Eclipse Juno or Indigo -- Installing the Activiti framework -- Time for action - installing the Activiti framework -- What just happened ? -- Time for action - creating our first process in Activiti -- What just happened ? -- Time for action - unit testing to see the result -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 2. Modeling Using the Activiti Modeler -- Understanding Business Process Modeling -- The BPM lifecycle -- The design phase -- Modeling -- Execution -- Monitoring -- Optimization -- Understanding the BPM standards -- Getting started with BPMN elements -- Flow objects -- Events -- The start event -- Intermediate event -- The end event -- Activities -- Task -- Sub-Process -- The call activity -- Gateways -- Exclusive gateways -- Inclusive gateways -- Parallel gateways -- Event-based gateways -- Connecting objects -- Sequence flow -- Message flow -- Associations -- Swim lanes -- Pool -- Lanes -- Artifacts -- Data object.

Group -- Annotation -- Installing the Activiti Modeler -- Time for action - Business Process Modeling using the Activiti Modeler -- What just happened? -- Time for action - import and export of a model -- What just happened? -- Time for action - deploying a model into the Activiti Engine -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 3. Designing Your Process Using the Activiti Designer -- Understanding the Activiti Designer -- Time for action - downloading and installing the Activiti Designer -- What just happened? -- Time for action - designing your first process -- What just happened? -- Time for action - testing your process -- What just happened? -- Time for action - importing a process from the Activiti Modeler to the Activiti Designer -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Pop quiz - the Activiti Designer -- Summary -- 4. Management and Monitoring Using the Activiti Explorer -- An overview of the Activiti Explorer -- A process with the Activiti Explorer -- Time for action - ­ starting a process instance -- What just happened? -- Managing tasks with the Activiti Explorer -- Time for action ­- working with user tasks -- What just happened? -- Managing processes with the Activiti Explorer -- Time for action ­- process management -- What just happened? -- Reporting with the Activiti Explorer -- Time for action -­ reporting using the Activiti Explorer -- What just happened? -- Administration using the Activiti Explorer -- Time for action ­- administration using the Activiti Explorer -- What just happened? -- Time for action ­- changing to a production-ready database -- What just happened? -- Time for action -­ deploying a process using the Activiti Explorer -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Pop quiz - the Activiti Explorer -- Summary -- 5. Development Using the Process Engine -- Understanding the Activiti development environment.

The Activiti Spring layer -- The Activiti Engine layer -- PVM -- Setting up the Activiti development environment -- Configuring the Activiti Process Engine -- Time for action - configuring a database -- What just happened? -- Time for action - the logging configuration -- What just happened? -- Time for action - configuring the mail server -- What just happened? -- Time for action - running the Activiti Engine -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Pop quiz - the Activiti Process Engine -- Summary -- 6. The Activiti ProcessEngine API -- Overview of the APIs and services -- Delving into the process engine -- RuntimeService -- RepositoryService -- Time for action - deploying the process -- What just happened? -- Time for action - starting a new process instance -- What just happened? -- TaskService -- Time for action - querying for user tasks -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating and completing user tasks -- What just happened? -- Time for action - suspending a process -- What just happened? -- ManagementService -- IdentityService -- Time for action - working with users -- What just happened? -- HistoryService -- Time for action - querying historical activities -- What just happened? -- FormService -- Time for action - unit testing and debugging processes -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Pop quiz - the Activiti ProcessEngine API -- Summary -- 7. Working with the REST API -- Overview of the Activiti REST API -- Time for action - implementing the REST service -- What just happened? -- Working with REST API services -- Time for action - working with Repository APIs as REST -- What just happened? -- Time for action - working with processes -- What just happened? -- Time for action - working with tasks -- What just happened? -- Time for action - working with users -- What just happened?.

Time for action - working with management -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Pop quiz - the REST API -- Summary -- 8. Integrating Activiti with Third-party Services -- Using the Liferay Portal with Activiti -- Understanding portals -- Exploring the Liferay Portal -- Time for action - integrating Liferay with Activiti -- What just happened? -- Integrating business rules in Activiti -- Drools Expert -- Drools Fusion -- Drools Planner -- Time for action - integrating and implementing business rules with Activiti -- What just happened? -- Deploying Activiti as an OSGi bundle -- Time for action - integrating Activiti with Apache Karaf -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 9. Implementing Advanced Workflows -- Understanding parallel gateways -- Time for action - implementing a parallel gateway -- What just happened? -- Getting started with Sub-Processes -- Embedded Sub-Processes -- Standalone Sub-Process -- Event Sub-Process -- Time for action - working with BPMN 2.0 Sub-Processes -- Understanding an embedded Sub-Process -- Understanding a standalone Sub-Process -- What just happened? -- Understanding multi-instance processes -- Time for action - implementing a multi-instance process -- What just happened? -- Introducing execution and task listeners -- Execution listeners -- Task listeners -- Time for action - implementing execution and task listeners -- What just happened? -- Monitoring workflows using BAM and CEP -- Understanding BAM -- Understanding CEP -- Monitoring using Esper -- Time for action - using Esper with Activiti -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Pop quiz - the Activiti Process Engine -- Summary -- A. Pop Quiz Answers -- Chapter 3, Designing Your Process Using the Activiti Designer -- Pop quiz - the Activiti Designer -- Chapter 4, Management and Monitoring Using the Activiti Explorer -- Pop quiz - the Activiti Explorer.

Chapter 5, Development Using the Process Engine -- Pop quiz - the Activiti Process Engine -- Chapter 6, The Activiti Process Engine API -- Pop quiz - the Activiti ProcessEngine API -- Chapter 7, Working with the REST API -- Pop quiz - the REST API -- Chapter 9, Implementing Advanced Workflows -- Pop quiz - Activiti Process Engine -- Index.