Business Process, why should I know about that?
Some buzzwords that we are going to hear when people talk about BPM
Business Process Management Systems (BPMS), my tool and your tool from now on
Decoupling processes from our applications
Graph Oriented Programming on top of OOP
Implementing Graph Oriented Programming on top of the Java language (finally Java code!)
Implementing our process definition
Wait states versus automatic nodes
Quick start guide to building Maven projects
Background about the jBPM project
Building real world applications
Getting Your Hands Dirty with jPDL
How is this example structured?
Key points that you need to remember
Analyzing business requirements
Describing how the job position is requested
Running the recruiting example
Persistence and Human Tasks in the Real World
Adding persistence configuration
Human tasks in our Recruiting Process
Handling process variables through the API
How and where is all this contextual information stored?
Going Deeply into the Advanced Features of jPDL
Advanced configurations in jPDL
Breaking our recruiting process into phases
Keeping our process goal focused with process state nodes
jBPM configurations for Java EE environments