If you ever tried to create an execution environment to automate business- or integration processes based on Open Source products, you know that this is not an easy task. Although Open Source products like Activiti or Apache Camel are of high quality, they do not run with production grade quality out-of-the-box. For serious usage scenarios typically . . . → Read More: Integrated Process Management with Open Source
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(Automated) business processes evolve over time! And they usually evolve faster than IT systems do. Let’s look at an example: In the ServiceMix forum there is an interesting debate going on about the Future of ServiceMix. I’ve collected some quotes from the thread. I know it is sometimes dangerous to cite people without giving the full context, but I think it helps to get a rough idea about the direction in which ServiceMix is heading. If you are interested in more details please . . . → Read More: The Future of ServiceMix It seems that that ServiceMix/Camel and Activiti are growing together as you can read in the blog post Supersize Activiti with Mule ESB and Apache Camel and Deploy Activiti as OSGi Bundles Activiti has its roots in business process management, whereas Camel comes from the area of enterprise integration. Both allow to describe and automate processes. Activiti . . . → Read More: Combining Activiti and Camel? My latest article Polyglot Workflows with Activiti and Silverlight has been published in the current issue of JavaSPEKTRUM. After losts of theory in form of articles and conference sessions, I thought it would be a good idea to present a real example. The Activiti engine is an interesting product in the area of BPM. If you go beyond simple demo applications . . . → Read More: Polyglot Workflows with Activiti and Silverlight People asking for the differences between BPMN and BPEL they often hear BPMN is graph oriented whereas BPEL is block oriented. But what does that actually mean and why is it important? Block orientation means that there is no way back in the process like a goto statement. In BPEL a common workaround is to use loops . . . → Read More: Executable BPMN for Business Analysts? Now that Activity published the first release (version 5.0) of their Open Source BPMN 2.0 engine and toolset, it was time to integrate it in our Open Source Reference Platform for SOA (OSRP). Despite some initial weaknesses, such as BPMN error handling, Actitivi is very promising if you are looking for a lightweight, Open Source BPM engine. Especially the . . . → Read More: Activiti and the Open Source Reference Platform |
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