Recently my colleague Daniel pointed me to JBoss Openshift, an initiative from JBoss to jump on the cloud train, nobody can avoid these days. But actually there is something really cool in it: You can create and run a JBoss AS 7 in the cloud easily, having either H2 or even MySQL available as a database. After playing around with it took me a Saturday to write a plug-in for the cycle component of camunda fox. This allows us to create and run a process application containing a BPMN 2.0 process at a worldwide reachable URL in a minute Interested? Watch this short screen-cast…

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Finally we camunda business people have a ‚success story‘, too. In this case it is about a BPMN modelling project. In the context of the Modernised Customs Code, we modelled the export processes together with the German Federal Ministry of Finance and MATERNA GmbH. Camunda was responsible for all questions around BPMN.

Most models were independently modelled by the employees of both enterprises after the first workshops. It was remarkable that even the most complex models were discussed in joint workshops with all participants. Lawyers, representatives of the business side as well as IT specialists were able to clarify their questions together – a very useful approach but unfortunately far too seldom used in practice.

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Since the beginning we joined the Activiti Project (an open source BPMN 2.0 Process Engine) and participated actively on the development. I even remember that I developed a first BPMN 2.0 engine prototype when writing our German book “Praxishandbuch BPMN“, see my (unfortunately German only at that time) blog post for that. Who would have guessed that Activiti gets that successful? Okay I hoped it and was pretty confident, but the current feedback is amazing. Beside Activiti Trainings and Workshops we currently productize camunda fox, a complete BPM Platform around Activiti, which implements our thoughts about Business IT Alignment (see for example BPMN 2.0 by Example: Incident Management) and “Less coding instead of Zero Coding” (see for example “Less-Code BPM” with camunda fox server, Activiti and JBoss AS 7). Now I get lot of questions about our role and relationship to Alfresco and this can be easily answered since 2011-10-31: We are official “Activiti Partner” now and keep on doing what we are already do

Last week I gave a talk about Activiti and Drools in Action at the WJAX in Munic, Germany, which is one of the largest and most important Java conferences in Germany. I gave a demo using the latest camunda fox server, basically a JBoss AS 7 with Activiti integrated. More than 80 people in a totally crowded room showed how hot this topic must be The whole stack allowed me to create an application using the Activiti Process Engine, JSF, CDI, JPA, EJB and the Drools Rule Engine in the train ride from Berlin to Munic, the required code is really pretty small. Today I uploaded a cast of the whole talk (but in German) and want to provide the link to the sources.

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Ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle Teilnehmer und Referenten, die an dem OMG Information Day am 26.10.2011 in Darmstadt teilgenommen haben.

Nun endlich, wie versprochen und von vielen schon sehnsüchtig erwartet, die Folien zu den Vorträgen! Die Folien zu den einzelnen Vorträge, soweit sie zur Veröffentlichung freigegeben wurden, finden Sie hier:
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Woken up at 4.30am, I am now sitting in the train, crossing Germany from Berlin to Frankfurt for a client’s workshop on BPM, BPMN and all the rest. Rather foggy outside, this seems to be the perfect scenery for finally joining the whole BPM vs. Case Management debate (maybe because I am in the mood for fairy tales?).
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