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.

The following picture give an idea of what the application does in terms of the process. For Drools I included some discount rules in my process, which are generated on the fly by a rule table implemented as JPA entities, shown in the second image.

You can download the camunda fox server and the example application. Just adjust the path to your JBoss in the build.properties file, then you can use the ant file for deployment. You can access the application by this URL afterwards: http://localhost:8080/order-confirmation-rules/. Have fun!