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By: rodosa

rodosa — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:32:50 +0000

Hi!!

I’ve flick through the book! It’s nice but I agrre with Joram Barrez. There isn’t real code examples. Somebody know where I get documentation with code examples? In the JBoss jBPM site don’t find documents with this characteristics.

Ah!!! Relatively with jBPM and WfMC … I finally put the following correspondence:

Inteface 1–>org.jbpm.graph.def.ProcessDefinition
Inteface 2–>org.jbpm.graph.exe.ProcessInstance
Inteface 3–>org.jbpm.graph.def.ActionHandler
Inteface 4–>org.jbpm.identity
Inteface 5–>org.jbpm.logging.log

By: Joram Barrez

Joram Barrez — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:11:08 +0000

Somehow the URL was screwed in my comment, so once again here it is: http://www.workflowpatterns.com

By: Joram Barrez

Joram Barrez — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:09:52 +0000

Since your copy of this book found it’s way to my desk, I also will give my opinion about it here.

In general, I agree with your statements.
It’s easy to read, gives nice general info about BPM, but it is definitely lacking in ‘real’ code examples. By ‘real’ I mean integration in applications, application servers and that stuff. But in the end, the subtitle ‘A practical guide for business analyst’ gives away the real purpose of this book.

For me, it was a nice intro to learn the JBPM concepts, but nothing more. I wouldn’t call it a fantastic book, but maybe that’s because I’m a developer and no business analyst.

By the way, If you are interested in the WfMC, you might want to check out http://www.workflowpatterns.com, which gives a more academic view on business process modeling.

By: Andries Inzé

Andries Inzé — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:48:07 +0000

I have no idea.
To be honest, I never head of WfMC. Thanks for info, looking into it now

By: rodosa

rodosa — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:43:26 +0000

Hi!

I’ve rear your post. It’s very interesting. I’m going to read this book to introduce myself in the jBPM’s world. I’m new in this world, I’m going to do my final proyect using workflows, well using jBPM (because I think that it’s one of the best open source workflow engine). I know that jBPM follows the standard that propose WfMC.I would like what packages of jBPM’s API implements the interfaces that WfMC propose.Finally I asociated the following packages with the interfaces:

Interface1 –> org.jbpm.model.definition (contains the interface for definition of processes)
Interface2 –> org.jbpm.model.execution (contains the interface for execution of processes)
Interface3 –> org.jbpm.delegation.ActionHandler (is the delegation-interface for the execution of process-initiated actions.)
Interface4 –> org.jbpm.identity (is a domain model for organisational information like users, groups and permissions)
Interface5 –> org.jbpm.LogService (contains is the interface for retrieving audit logger information about process executions)

Do you know if this asociation is correct? Thank you very much for your attention.

Regards.