OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: BPM and Workflow Basics
• Business Process Orientation
• BPR and BPM
• Business Process Improvement
• What's a BPMS?
• Traceability and Auditing
• Different Kinds of BPMS
• System Orchestration with System-Oriented BPMS
• System Orchestration
• Enabling Workgroup Collaboration with People-Oriented BPMS
• Components of a BPM Solution
• The Workflow Management Coalition
• How Components Map to the BPM Lifecycle
• Open-Source BPMS
• Summary

• Chapter 2: OSWorkflow Introduction and Basics
• Downloading and Installing OSWorkflow
• Getting a Taste from the Distribution
• Navigating the Sample User Interface
• OSWorkflow Basics
• XML Definition Files
• An Example Workflow
• Steps, Actions, and Results: The Workflow Building Blocks
• Testing the Workflow Definition
• Splits and Joins
• Setting Status and Old Status Values
• Sending an Email Automatically
• Visual Process Modeling
• Visually Creating the Holiday Example
• Looking at the End Result
• Ways to Implement OSWorkflow
• OSWorkflow as a Workflow Layer
• OSWorkflow as a Centralized Workflow Server
• Adding the SOAP Bindings
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Adding Code to our Definitions
• How to Deal with Transient Data
• Variable Interpolation in the Definition
• PropertySet and Transient Variables
• Exploring PropertySet
• Using the PropertySet to Store Variable Data
• Using the PropertySet to Retrieve Stored Data
• Cleaning the PropertySet
• Configuring the PropertySet
• Adding Code to our Definition
• FunctionProviders
• Creating our first FunctionProvider
• FunctionProvider Types
• Defining a Custom Function Provider
• BeanShell Scripting
• Built-in Functions
• Conditions
• Creating our own Condition
• Registers
• Using the LogRegister
• Implementing a Register
• Validators
• Creating a Customer Identifier Validator
• BeanShell Validators
• Other Useful Descriptor Concepts
• Finish Actions
• Auto Actions
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Using OSWorkflow in your Application
• OSWorkflow Configuration
• Registering our Process Descriptors
• Embedding OSWorkflow into your Application
• Starting a Workflow
• Executing Actions
• What's the Status?
• What can I Do?
• The Useful Abstract States
• Querying the Workflow Store
• Querying the Workflow Factory
• Inspecting the Workflow Descriptor from Code
• Using the Workflow Configuration Object
• Workflow Interface Implementations
• Loading the Descriptors—the Workflow Factory
• Loading Descriptors from a Database
• Persisting Instance Information
• Persistence Choices
• Configuring the JDBC Store
• PropertySet Persistence
• Configuring the JDBC PropertySet
• Unit Testing your Workflow
• What is JUnit?
• Running the Tests
• Integrating with Spring
• The Object Registry—BeanFactory
• Using our BeanFactory
• Transaction Support in Spring
• The SpringTypeResolver
• Workflow Security
• Step Permissions
• Action Restrictions
• Step Ownership
• Extending User and Group Authentication and Authorization
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Integrating Business Rules with JBoss Rules
• Incorporating Business Logic into Business Processes
• Simple Logic with Conditional Results
• Complex Business Logic
• What is "JBoss Rules"?
• Creating a Rule
• Executing a Rule
• Integrating with OSWorkflow
• RulesCondition
• RulesFunctionProvider
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Task Scheduling with Quartz
• What is Quartz?
• Installing
• Basic Concepts
• Integration with OSWorkflow
• Creating a Custom Job
• Trigger Functions
• More about Triggers
• SimpleTrigger
• CronTrigger
• Scheduling a Job
• Scheduling from a Workflow Definition
• Transactions in Quartz
• JobStores
• Example Application—Customer Support
• Example Application—Claims Processing
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Complex Event Processing
• Complex Event Processing (CEP)
• Patterns and Data
• CEP in BPM
• What is Esper?
• The Esper Architecture
• Downloading and Installing Esper
• Hello World from Esper
• Push and Pull Mode
• EQL Queries
• Integration with OSWorkflow
• Esper Function Provider
• Real-World Examples
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Dashboards with Pentaho
• What is Pentaho?
• Pentaho Requirements
• Downloading and Installing Pentaho
• Setting up Pentaho to use the OSWorkflow Database
• Using the Design Studio to Create our First Chart
• Useful Charts for BAM Consoles
• Summary

• Index