Red Hat JBoss BRMS - Online Workshop Building The Cool Store (Lab 4 Create a Domain Specific Language)

We are back with this weeks episode in the JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS) & Business Process Management (BPM) Suite online workshop series.

In this workshop we will be introducing you to the possibilities that abound for your business when leveraging these two new and exciting products.

Each week we will push out the next installment of this workshop that will lead you through building an online retail web shopping cart application, leveraging rules, events, and a rule-flow.

This project is available as a completed project called the Cool Store Demo, but we thought it would be interesting to help you build this application from scratch.

The second half of the workshop will be taking you through the same type of exercise, but with the JBoss BPM Suite, where you will put together an application that leverages a process, integrates rules, leverages human tasks, allows you to design your own forms, and much more.

Last week we created the domain model.

Creating the Cool Store Domain Specific Language

This week you will be shown how to expand the Cool Store project with a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that will allow your business users to create a rule using natural language.

The weeks following will feed you a new set of exercises to help you to the next stage of development as you watch your very own Cool Store rise from the ground up.

All of the workshop materials will be hosted online with the help of OpenShift, so all you need is a browser to follow along.

You do not need to be a Java developer, as this workshop focuses on only the online product web dashboard experience as an analyst would interact with the product. The only technical deviation from this will be the initial installation of the product, but we have detailed instructions and it is a three step process that should not take you more than a few minutes.

So what are you waiting for?

Get started creating the Cool Store Domain Specific Language (DSL):

If you missed previous episodes of this workshop, you can backtrack to catch up.

Series Table of Contents:

1. The introduction and installation of JBoss BRMS 
2. Creating a new project
3. Creating a domain model
4. Creating a Domain Specific Language (DSL)
5. Creating Guided Rules
6. Creating Technical Rules (DRL)
7. Creating Guided Decision Tables
8. Create RuleFlow Process
9. Create Test Scenarios
10. Running the Cool Store
11. Installing JBoss BPM Suite
12. Creating Rewards Project
13. Create Domain Model
14. Create Rewards Process
15. Complete Process Details
16. Creating User Task Forms
17. Running Rewards Demo
18. Automated Task Reassignment

Be sure to keep an eye out for next weeks release of the following article which will bring you a step closer to completing your very own Cool Store.

Note: if for some reason the online materials are not available, feel free to contact me.

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Toronto JUG - Report From Up North

Yesterday I had the honor of attending the Toronto JUG meeting. I happened to be in the area for another event so contacted the organizers and they were kind enough to fit me in before the main speaker.

I previously mentioned that there would be a talk by Marius Bogoevici (ex-JBoss'er) after which I was to do a lightning talk on JBoss Rules & BPM.

What's new in Java 8?

It turned out a bit different, as Marius had to call off sick, so they turned up for a set of short talks covering Java 8 release overview, a pretty fun robot war (attendees brought in pre-programmed robots and we watched 10 battles on the main screen), then I got the chance to lightning through a JBoss BRMS talk, and finally Jonathan (meet him here) tutored us on thread safety.
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I passed out the famous JBoss BRMS & BPM Suite laptop stickers, that went over pretty well. ;)

Warm group, great location.

We were located the Back room of the Free Times Cafe, 320 College St. in Toronto, which has nice food, good beers, and a pretty neat location to hold a JUG. They meet monthly so you might want to join them the last Thursday of every month for your network, knowledge, and social agenda.

Red Hat JBoss BRMS - Online Workshop Building The Cool Store (Lab 3 Create a Domain Model)

We are back with this weeks episode in the JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS) & Business Process Management (BPM) Suite online workshop series.

In this workshop we will be introducing you to the possibilities that abound for your business when leveraging these two new and exciting products.

Each week we will push out the next installment of this workshop that will lead you through building an online retail web shopping cart application, leveraging rules, events, and a rule-flow.

This project is available as a completed project called the Cool Store Demo, but we thought it would be interesting to help you build this application from scratch.

The second half of the workshop will be taking you through the same type of exercise, but with the JBoss BPM Suite, where you will put together an application that leverages a process, integrates rules, leverages human tasks, allows you to design your own forms, and much more.

Workbench domain modeler

Last week we kicked it off with an introduction to the products, then get you started by installing the JBoss BRMS product (not provided, but available online), and creating your first project.

This week you will be shown how to create your domain model using the workbench domain modeler component.

The weeks following will feed you a new set of exercises to help you to the next stage of development as you watch your very own Cool Store rise from the ground up.

All of the workshop materials will be hosted online with the help of OpenShift, so all you need is a browser to follow along.

You do not need to be a Java developer, as this workshop focuses on only the online product web dashboard experience as an analyst would interact with the product. The only technical deviation from this will be the initial installation of the product, but we have detailed instructions and it is a three step process that should not take you more than a few minutes.

So what are you waiting for?

Get started creating the Cool Store domain model:

If you missed previous episodes of this workshop, you can backtrack to catch up.

Series Table of Contents:

1. The introduction and installation of JBoss BRMS 
2. Creating a new project
3. Creating a domain model
4. Creating a Domain Specific Language (DSL)
5. Creating Guided Rules
6. Creating Technical Rules (DRL)
7. Creating Guided Decision Tables
8. Create RuleFlow Process
9. Create Test Scenarios
10. Running the Cool Store
11. Installing JBoss BPM Suite
12. Creating Rewards Project
13. Create Domain Model
14. Create Rewards Process
15. Complete Process Details
16. Creating User Task Forms
17. Running Rewards Demo
18. Automated Task Reassignment

Be sure to keep an eye out for next weeks release of the following article which will bring you a step closer to completing your very own Cool Store.

Note: if for some reason the online materials are not available, feel free to contact me.

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JBoss BRMS & BPM Suite Lightning Talk at Toronto JUG

This week there is a Toronto JUG meeting, Thursday March 27th at 1830 hrs. I happen to be in the area for another event so contacted the organizers and they were kind enough to fit me in before the main speaker.

I will be there with Marius Bogoevici (ex-JBoss'er) who will be covering some ground on the Play! 2 framework after I give a lightning talk on JBoss Rules & BPM.

It is being held in the Back room of the Free Times Cafe, 320 College St. in Toronto.

Drop in if you are interested in these talks or just want to chat over beers.

Summary of the main talk
In the past few years, the Java ecosystem has seen the rise of a few frameworks that compete with (or complement) the established enterprise Java development model. Whether you see them as the next best thing, or a source of fresh ideas, getting familiar with what they have to offer is an important part of understanding the challenges and trends in the modern enterprise Java world. One of the most popular of these frameworks is Play!, which provides Scala and also Java developers with a highly productive and highly scalable web application development environment.

In this presentation, Marius will give you a hands-on-tour of the Play! Framework, in which we will build together a Play!-based application, showing you how:

• to create and set up a project
• build controllers and web pages (with a focus on Play!’s pretty cool Scala template system)
• integrate with a relational database
• integrate with a NoSQL database (i.e. MongoDB)
• secure your application
• build a REST/JSON set of web services to integrate with an HTML5/REST architecture
• write unit and integration tests… and time provided, as many more details as we can fit in!

Presenter Bio: Marius Bogoevici is the Senior Server Architect for Infinity Quick, Inc., where he develops the backend of Poptalk (http://poptalk.me), the mobile application that brings your messaging to life, and where the Play! framework has helped, along with other, more mainstream enterprise Java frameworks (e.g. Spring), to building a highly performant and scalable architecture. Prior to joining Infinity Quick, Marius has been active in the Java OSS space while working for Red Hat and SpringSource, where he actively took part to the development of a number of open-source Java projects such as JBoss AS, Weld (CDI RI), Spring Integration. Previously speaking to JBoss World, DevNexus, Java One and Spring One and happy to return after almost three years with a talk to the Toronto JUG, Marius is also the co-author of “Spring Integration in Action” (Manning, 2012)

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite - changing the default roles for LDAP configuration

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When setting up your JBoss BPM Suite using LDAP to leverage an enterprises existing roles and users, there is a pretty good chance that the existing default roles are already taken.

What can you do to modify these roles: admin, developer, analyst, user, and manager in the default deployment of JBoss BPM Suite?

Well we can modify these in the workbench configuration and ensure that you have five unique LDAP based roles available that conform to your enterprise standard operating procedures as follows.

# Edit the file found in the deployments directory of your jboss server,
# business-central.war/WEB-INF/classes/workbench-policy.properties and
# at the bottom you will find the following entries that can be adjusted
# to the LDAP roles you would like to assign to each.
#
roles.wb_everything=admin
roles.wb_for_developers=developer
roles.wb_for_business_analysts=analyst
roles.wb_for_business_users=user
roles.wb_for_managers=manager


# You will also need to adjust the file found in the deployments directory 
# of your jboss server at business-central.war/WEB-INF/web.xml to adjust 
# to match your new LDAP roles. The following entries are shown with the 
# original five roles, adjust the 'role-name' to the new roles as needed.
#

    Administrator - Administrates the BPMS system. Has full 
      access rights to make any changes necessary. Also has the
      ability to add and remove users from the system.
    
    admin



    Analyst - Responsible for creating and designing processes
      into the system. Creates process flows and handles
      process change requests. Needs to test processes that
      they create. Also creates forms and dashboards.
    
    analyst



    Developer - Implements code required for process to work. 
      Mostly uses the JBDS connection to view processes, but may use the
      web tool occasionally.
    
    developer



    Business user - Daily user of the system to take actions 
      on business tasks that are required for the processes to continue 
      forward. Works primarily with the task lists.
    
    user



    Manager/Viewer-only User - Viewer of the system that is 
      interested in statistics around the  business processes and their 
      performance, business indicators, and other reporting of the system 
      and people who interact with the system.
    
    manager

This tip is brought to you by our very own Adam Baxter, feel free to connect and thank him for his work.

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Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite - changing Business Activity Monitor (BAM) report permissions

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Within the JBoss BPM Suite you have the capabilities with the Business Activity Monitor (BAM) dashboard to generate almost any report you might need around the data sources at your disposal.

The question now is, how to make sure that only some users can view that sensitive report that is only for the eyes of managers?

This is done by adjusting the permissions within the BAM report properties.

There you have the ability to configure your user at their role levels, as to what section of a dashboard they can access, admin, are allowed to create pages for, to edit, to clean up, and to change panels.

Figure 1 - Expense reports sample BAM dashboard

If we login to the JBoss BPM dashboard, for example a setup of our JBoss BRMS Generic Loan Demo project, we can access from the top menu Dashboards -> Business Dashboards and select the example Expense reports from the Sample dashboards offered on the right menu as shown in Figure 1.

We want to view the permissions as they are now set and maybe adjust them, so we select the Edit Page Properties tool icon at the top of the page.

This opens the properties for this page, from which we select in the right menu Workspaces -> Showcase -> Pages -> Sample dashboards -> Expense reports -> Page permissions.

Figure 2 - added manager & admin access rights to page.

Here it is initially empty with no permissions set or restricting access to the page. As we have decided this needs to be restricted to our managers, we will add that the administrator role can do anything and that the manager roles can only view it. All other roles will not have access to this report, as shown in Figure 2.

If we zoom out to the highest level of default permissions we need to go in the right menu to Workspaces -> Showcase -> Permissions and we can view the default setup for the entire Showcase of reports. These can be modified as needed at the role access level, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 - BAM reporting high level permissions

In this article we have shown you how to access BAM reporting permissions, given you two examples showing both high level permissions and individual report permission settings, and showed you how to add or adjust the permissions you need.

This is just a small sample, there are even finer grains of control as you can also set permissions on each individual panels should you have a need.

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Red Hat JBoss BRMS - Online Workshop Building The Cool Store (Introduction & Labs 1 - 2)

Welcome to the kickoff of the JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS) & Business Process Management (BPM) Suite online workshop.

In this workshop we will be introducing you to the possibilities that abound for your business when leveraging these two new and exciting products.

Each week we will push out the next installment of this workshop that will lead you through building an online retail web shopping cart application, leveraging rules, events, and a rule-flow.

This project is available as a completed project called the Cool Store Demo, but we thought it would be interesting to help you build this application from scratch.

The second half of the workshop will be taking you through the same type of exercise, but with the JBoss BPM Suite, where you will put together an application that leverages a process, integrates rules, leverages human tasks, allows you to design your own forms, and much more.

Building the Cool Store!

This week we kick it off with an introduction to the products, then get you started by installing the JBoss BRMS product (not provided, but available online), and creating your first project.

The weeks following will feed you a new set of exercises to help you to the next stage of development as you watch your very own Cool Store rise from the ground up.

All of the workshop materials will be hosted online with the help of OpenShift, so all you need is a browser to follow along.

You do not need to be a Java developer, as this workshop focuses on only the online product web dashboard experience as an analyst would interact with the product. The only technical deviation from this will be the initial installation of the product, but we have detailed instructions and it is a three step process that should not take you more than a few minutes.

So what are you waiting for?

Let's get started with the introduction:

Then we will guide you through the installation of JBoss BRMS:

At which time you are ready for the last lab of this week, creating your new project:

Be sure to keep an eye out for next weeks release of the following article which will bring you a step closer to completing your very own Cool Store.

Series Table of Contents:

1. The introduction and installation of JBoss BRMS 
2. Creating a new project
3. Creating a domain model
4. Creating a Domain Specific Language (DSL)
5. Creating Guided Rules
6. Creating Technical Rules (DRL)
7. Creating Guided Decision Tables
8. Create RuleFlow Process
9. Create Test Scenarios
10. Running the Cool Store
11. Installing JBoss BPM Suite
12. Creating Rewards Project
13. Create Domain Model
14. Create Rewards Process
15. Complete Process Details
16. Creating User Task Forms
17. Running Rewards Demo
18. Automated Task Reassignment

Note: if for some reason the online materials are not available, feel free to contact me.

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Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite - support matrix Control Workflow Patterns

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In another installment of the JBoss BPM Suite Tips & Tricks series we will be helping you to understand the Control Workflow Patterns support that JBoss BPM Suite provides.

This article will outline the the basic control flow patterns as defined by vdAtHKB03. We will then analyze what patterns have limited support due to restrictions imposed by the BPMN2 process specification as detailed in BPM-06-22.

We will cover the complete set of 20 control flow patterns, starting with the five basic control flow patterns and finishing with the fifteen advanced branching and synchronization patterns.

Patterns

In the original research paper the authors cover five (5) basic control flow patterns:

1. Sequence - an activity in a workfow process is enabled after the completion of a preceding activity in the same process.
2. Parallel Split - point in the workflow process where a single thread of control splits into multiple threads of control which can be executed in parallel, thus allowing activities to be executed simultaneously or in any order.
3. Synchronization - point in the workfow process where multiple parallel subprocesses/activities converge into one single thread of control, thus synchronizing multiple threads.
4. Exclusive Choice - point in the workflow process where, based on a decision or workflow control data, one of several branches is chosen.
5. Simple Merge - point in the workflow where two or more alternative branches come together without synchronization. It is an assumption of this pattern that none of the alternative branches are ever executed in parallel.

After these five patterns the authors continue on to cover fifteen (15) advanced branching and synchronization patterns:

1. Mulit-choice - point in the workflow process where, based on a decision or workflow control data, a number of branches are chosen.
2. Synchronizing Merge - point in the workflow process where multiple paths converge into one single thread. If more than one path is taken, synchronization of the active threads needs to take place. If only one path is taken, the alternative branches should reconverge without synchronization. It is an assumption of this pattern that a branch that has already been activated, cannot be activated again while the merge is still waiting for other branches to complete.
3. Multi-merge - point in a workflow process where two or more branches reconverge without synchronization. If more than one branch gets activated, possibly concurrently, the activity following the merge is started for every activation of every incoming branch.
4. Discriminator - discriminator is a point in a workflow process that waits for one of the incoming branches to complete before activating the subsequent activity. From that moment on it waits for all remaining branches to complete and "ignores" them. Once all incoming branches have been triggered, it resets itself so that it can be triggered again (which is important otherwise it could not really be used in the context of a loop).
5. Arbitrary Cycles - point in a workflow process where one or more activities can be done repeatedly.
6. Implicit Termination - given subprocess should be terminated when there is nothing else to be done. In other words, there are no active activities in the workflow and no other activity can be made active (and at the same time the workflow is not in deadlock).
7. Multiple Instances Without Synchronization - Within the context of a single case (i.e., workflow instance) multiple instances of an activity can be created, i.e., there is a facility to spawn o new threads of control. Each of these threads of control is independent of other threads. Moreover, there is no need to synchronize these threads.
8. Multiple Instances With a Priori Design Time Knowledge - For one process instance an activity is enabled multiple times. The number of instances of a given activity for a given process instance is known at design time. Once all instances are completed some other activity needs to be started.
9. Multiple Instances With a Priori Runtime Knowledge - For one case an activity is enabled multiple times. The number of instances of a given activity for a given case varies and may depend on characteristics of the case or availability of resources, but is known at some stage during runtime, before the instances of that activity have to be created. Once all instances are completed some other activity needs to be started.
10. Multiple Instances Without a Priori Runtime Knowledge - For one case an activity is enabled multiple times. The number of instances of a given activity for a given case is not known during design time, nor is it known at any stage during runtime, before the instances of that activity have to be created. Once all instances are completed some other activity needs to be started. The difference with Pattern 9 is that even while some of the instances are being executed or already completed, new ones can be created.
11. Deferred Choice - point in the workflow process where one of several branches is chosen. In contrast to the XOR-split, the choice is not made explicitly (e.g. based on data or a decision) but several alternatives are offered to the environment. However, in contrast to the AND-split, only one of the alternatives is executed. This means that once the environment activates one of the branches the other alternative branches are withdrawn. It is important to note that the choice is delayed until the processing in one of the alternative branches is actually started, i.e. the moment of choice is as late as possible.
12. Interleaved Parallel Routing - set of activities is executed in an arbitrary order: Each activity in the set is executed, the order is decided at run-time, and no two activities are executed at the same moment (i.e. no two activities are active for the same workflow instance at the same time).
13. Milestone - enabling of an activity depends on the case being in a speci ed state, i.e. the activity is only enabled if a certain milestone has been reached which did not expire yet. Consider three activities named A, B, and C. Activity A is only enabled if activity B has been executed and C has not been executed yet, i.e. A is not enabled before the execution of B and A is not enabled after the execution of C.
14. Cancel Activity - An enabled activity is disabled, i.e. a thread waiting for the execution of an activity is removed.
15. Cancel Case - A case, i.e. workflow instance, is removed completely (i.e., even if parts of the process are instantiated multiple times, all descendants are removed).

Now we can focus on JBoss BPM Suite and evaluate what it is capable of supporting and to what degree.

JBoss BPM Suite

Looking at the product for coverage of these basic control flow patterns, we can put together the following matrix. If JBoss BPM Suite directly supports the pattern through one of its constructs, it is rated +. If the pattern is not directly supported, it is rated +/-. Any solution which results in spaghetti diagrams or coding, is considered as giving no direct support and is rated -.

PATTERN	JBoss BPM Suite
Sequence	+
Parallel Split	+
Synchronization	+
Exclusive Choice	+
Simple Merge	+

The JBoss BPM Suite product overview matrix showing the potential support for the advanced branching and synchronization patterns is as follows.

PATTERN	JBoss BPM Suite
Multi-choice	+
Synchronizing Merge	+
Multi-merge	+ / -*
Discriminator	+ / -*
Arbitrary Cycles	+
Implicit Termination	+
Multiple Instances Without Synchronization	+
Multiple Instances With a Priori DT Knowledge	+
Multiple Instances With a Priori RT Knowledge	+
Multiple Instances Without a Priori RT Knowledge	-**
Deferred Choice	+
Interleaved Parallel Routing	+ / -*
Milestone	-**
Cancel Activity	+
Cancel Case	+

* limited by BPMN specification.

** not supported by BPMN specification.

As you might have noticed, JBoss BPM Suite is able to support almost all of the control workflow patterns as outlined by vdAtHKB03. Where there is limited support for a pattern is only due to the adherence to the BPMN standard as explained in  BPM-06-22. 

We hope this overview outlines the potential JBoss BPM Suite has for supporting control workflow patterns.

In a follow up articles we will provide examples projects to support these claims, so stay tuned.

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Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite - preview bpmPaaS Test Driving Cloudy Process Designer

Cloud Enabled BPMN2 Process Designer

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With the release of the Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite we have something kinda fun for you setup to preview some of the components found in the product itself.

Together with the project team, Maciej and Tihomir that work on this fantastic component, we have set up a repeatable standalone demo installation of the BPMN2 process designer.

It is fully functional and you can design you processes in the Cloud setup based on OpenShift Origin.

The setup instructions can be found on github.com:

OpenShift BPM Process Designer (v1.3)

Cloudy designer login

It is very easy to get this project setup, just follow the instruction and in minutes you will be designing your business process in the Cloud!

Running on OpenShift

Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/

Create a JBoss EAP application

rhc app create -t jbossas-7 --from-code git://github.com/eschabell/openshift-bpm-process-designer.git designer

That's it, you can now checkout your application at:

http://designer-$your_domain.rhcloud.com     

Just follow the link provided to the designer login:

http://designer-$your_domain.rhcloud.com/designer

Login credentials

       user: erics

   password: erics

Cloudy JBoss BPM Process Designer

Test drive this install right now on http://designer-inthe.rhcloud.com.

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Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 - the new Cool Store Demo

Cool Store web shop

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It is time for another update to the awesome JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS) Cool Store Demo, this time brought to you in the brand new JBoss BRMS 6 product.

This last week Jason Milliron and myself spent some time freshening up this retail web shopping example to the all new product version. We now have the Cool Store web application that relies on the JBoss BRMS business central based project for its rules, events, model, and a rule-flow.

Some time ago Jason put together an example web application based on the popular framework Vaadin which is an example of an online shopping cart. This web application demonstrates interaction between a web front end and a decision table and rules package. This allows the business logic to become externalized from your deployed application and can then be modified as needed at runtime. This application leverages the rules to calculate the shipping costs based on your rules in the table below.

It is pretty simple really, you can adjust how much the ranges are and what the shipping for the shopping cart total order will be by tweaking this table, for example:

JBoss BRMS Cool Store decision table

• the price from Tier 2 based on value totaling between $26 - $50 is $4.99
• you can fill your cart with over $25 of materials to validate
• edit decision table and adjust it to $6.99 
• save changes
• build & deploy your cool store project
• clear the shopping cart application
• re-order the same materials and validate the charge to shipping is now $6.99

I have released version 2.0 based on JBoss BRMS 6.0.0.GA which will get you started in a very short amount of time. See the provided documentation and Readme file in the project.

The project is in the same template you are used to getting from JBoss Technology Evangelists, providing you with the 3-step setup you expect from us:

1. clone the project.
2. download the products (JBoss EAP + BRMS)
3. run the init script for automated setup.

We can't make it any easier, so hope you enjoy!

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Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite - Lab Workshop for Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Running in the Cloud or Standalone

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We are pretty excited about the release of a new JBoss BPM Suite product at Red Hat, so we have something kinda fun for you setup to preview one of the new components in this product.

This is a Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) component that allows you to connect to various data sources within your organization and generate graphical reports based on this information.

Previously we wrote about how to run this component in the Cloud. Now we want to provide you with not only a standalone local installation, but also a small introductory lab-based workshop to keep you busy.

It is time to get hands-on with this component!

For this demo you will find SQL datasources and CSV flat files as data sources. There are many more options coming so watch for the data sources you want to connect too in future announcements.

By default the Dashbuilder project contains predefined data sources to two different CSV files located within the demo code base. It also contains three preconfigured SQL datasources for queries to jBPM tables to allow you to plug it directly into a JBoss BPM Suite installation.

For now I just want to share a tour of the functionality that was showcased last year in a preview at the Red Hat Summit booth where we also highlighted the JBoss BPM Suite web process designer. There was a lot of interest in this demonstration and the video drew participants into the booth like a fly to honey!

The project can be found on github to get you started at https://github.com/eschabell/bpms-bam-dashboard and the lab documentation can be found within this project under the directory docs/BAM lab guide.pdf.

Quickstart guide

See Quick Start Guide in project as ODT and PDF for details on installation. For those that can't wait:

• see README in 'installs' directory

• add products

• run 'init.sh' & read output

• start JBoss EAP server

• login to dashbuilder (http://localhost:8080/dashbuilder) with user 'erics' and password 'bpmsuite'

After that you can get into the details with the aforementioned lab guide. A video preview of the component is provided here:

A Sneak Preview of the JBoss BPM BAM Dashboard.

This video is also available on YouTube.

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Released jBPM Migration Tooling v0.13

Got your ducks in a row?

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With the new version of JBoss BPM Suite in the works, it is time again to release the work being done on the jbpmmigration project.

We went to work and are happy to announce the availability of the jBPM Migration projects, jbpmmigration v0.13.

We have fixed a few issues, added release to JBoss Nexus, and have added new tests bringing the total up to 42 process conversion examples.

The OpenShift jBPM Migration WebApp has been updated to run with the current release, you can find it here and test your processes against the migration tooling.

         http://jbpmmigration-inthe.rhcloud.com.

Future planning is to work on including this update into the jBPM Designer as soon as we can.

We hope you enjoy converting your jPDL 3.2 into BPMN2 with this release.

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Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite - preview bpmPaaS Cloudy Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Cloudy BAM

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With the release of the Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite we have something kinda fun for you setup to preview some of the components found in the product itself.

I have put together a preview of the JBoss BPM BAM Dashboard Builder component and pushed it into the Cloud.

That is all nice and such, but for you to enjoy this you want to have it repeatable for your own quick and easy usage. No worries, I have that for you too. Here are a few screenshots and you can follow the steps below to install your very own version in the OpenShift Cloud.

Logged into the BAM dashboard

You can find the project I setup to install this in your very own instance of OpenShift here:

https://github.com/eschabell/openshift-bpm-bam-dashboard/tree/v1.0

Running on OpenShift

Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/

Create a JBoss AS instance

rhc app create -t jbossas-7 --from-code git://github.com/eschabell/openshift-bpm-bam-dashboard.git bampreview

There is one step to add the user login files that are not being correctly copied to the JBoss server. Using the rhc scp command, copy the following files, then the login will work below.

 rhc scp bampreview bampreview/.openshift/config/bam-*.properties jbossas/standalone/configuration/

That's it, you can now checkout your application at:

http://bampreview-$your_domain.rhcloud.com     

Just follow the link provided to the designer login:

Your KPI's report

http://bampreview-$your_domain.rhcloud.com/dashbuilder

Login credentials

       user: erics

   password: erics

For a video tour you can refer to:

A Sneak Preview of the JBoss BPM BAM Dashboard

Test drive this install right now on http://bam-inthe.rhcloud.com.

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Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite - Run the Mortgage Demo (video)

JBoss BPM Suite Mortgage Demo

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A while back I walked you through how to setup the all new JBoss BPM Suite Mortgage Demo, based on the provided example BPM project that you can download with the product. I just wrapped it up and made it a 3-click installation experience.

You will be up and running in less than 5 mins, at least that was all it took for me to video the experience for you.

Now we continue onwards, and show you exactly what is in this process project, how it works, take a single run through the process, and examine the results in the provided BPM BAM dashboard. This video is a bit longer than we like to present at just over 13 minutes covering all of the following aspects and components along the way:

Components on display

• Administration dashboard
• manage organizational units
• Artifact repository dashboard
• upload data model
• Project authoring dashboard
• process designer
• rule editors
• form modeler
• data modeler
• project editor
• build and deploy project
• Process Definitions dashboard
• view definitions
• start process instance
• Process Instance dashboard
• Tasks dashboard
• Process & Task dashboard

As you can see this is a pretty complete run through all the things you will need to understand the project and run the demo. We plan to provide smaller demo videos in the future that will zoom in on short tutorials of individual JBoss BPM Suite components.

JBoss BPM Suite - Running the Mortgage Demo

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Part I (Installation)

Red Hat officially announces release of JBoss BPM Suite 6 and JBoss BRMS 6

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Red Hat has just announced general availability of these long awaited products!

It takes a large effort to turn the community code into enterprise quality software that customers and end-users can rely on in production with Red Hat support. It is now a great time for current and potential customers to learn about the product, for partners to start engaging with it and learning the nuts and bolts, and for the open source community and Red Hat to receive all sorts of input on these products; all of which turns them into better products to use with the world-class customer service Red Hat has gotten us used to.

The new JBoss BPM Suite has a well defined, integral focus on process management and automation. It represents the culmination of an awesome amount of work done by the open source community over many months. It contains not only improvements on existing components, not only a completely redesigned look and feel, but also a set of exciting new features!

It’s new, but it maintains backwards compatibility with your previous JBoss BRMS business process and rules project implementations. It also offers with your subscription the world class Red Hat JBoss support of your production environment you are familiar with.

JBoss BPM Suite 6 also represents the final phase in the integration of Polymita into Red Hat. That’s why you will find advanced functionalities such as dynamic data and forms modeling. This innovative feature lets you manage those directly from the web interfaces of the tool without coding! Another cool new thing derived from the acquisition is the Business Activity Monitoring. Now you are able to create beautiful dashboards by dragging and dropping on a web interface with all sort of rich graphics that are linked to the processes. In addition, BPM Suite now also includes the entire state-of-the-art BRMS 6 product with its advanced decision management and data analysis capabilities, which is also a separate product in itself that you can continue to use with its own support subscription.

So now it’s your turn! Discover how these new products can contribute value to your organization!

Download Links:
JBoss BPM Suite 6.0 - https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=bpm.suite&downloadType=distributions
JBoss BRMS 6.0 - https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=brms&downloadType=distributions

Documentation:
JBoss BPM Suite 6.0 - https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/Red_Hat_JBoss_BPM_Suite/
JBoss BRMS Suite 6.0 - https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/Red_Hat_JBoss_BRMS/

Web Pages:
JBoss BPM Suite: http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/business-process/
JBoss BRMS: http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/business-rules/

BPM Example App:
A fully functional BPM Example Application is included as part of the downloads.

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