JBoss BPM Suite 6.2 - RestAPI authentication for client applications

For the astute JBoss BPM fan it will not have escaped you that the community has been hard at work putting together a lot of new features for the upcoming JBoss BPM Suite 6.2 release.

With the early internal Red Hat releases being made available, some of the testing I do around updating the array of demo projects we have has revealed a subtle change. It got me to thinking that I could point out a few of these tips and tricks to your as the product approaches delivery to the public.

The RestAPI is a much used feature of JBoss BPM Suite and one if the first changes you will bump into is that the user making use of the interface needs to have a new role added to their privileges.

If you use a previous client application that was connecting to JBoss BPM Suite, the user did not need a specific role. For example our Generic Loan demo project contains a client application to pre-load our process.

 java -jar jboss-generic-loan-demo-client.jar erics bpmsuite1!

The results of this call in JBoss BPM Suite 6.2 without the new role would be:

 
Exception in thread "main" org.kie.services.client.api.command.exception.RemoteCommunicationException: Unable to retrieve content from response!

at org.kie.services.client.api.command.AbstractRemoteCommandObject.executeRestCommand(AbstractRemoteCommandObject.java:425)
at org.kie.services.client.api.command.AbstractRemoteCommandObject.executeCommand(AbstractRemoteCommandObject.java:128)
at org.kie.services.client.api.command.KieSessionClientCommandObject.startProcess(KieSessionClientCommandObject.java:286)
at com.redhat.bpms.examples.mortgage.CreateProcesses.populateSamples(CreateProcesses.java:57)
at com.redhat.bpms.examples.mortgage.CreateProcesses.main(CreateProcesses.java:47)
Caused by: org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequestException: Unable to retrieve input stream of response
at org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequest.responseStream(KieRemoteHttpRequest.java:1365)
at org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequest.responseBuffer(KieRemoteHttpRequest.java:1383)
at org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequest.responseBody(KieRemoteHttpRequest.java:1325)
at org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequest.access$2100(KieRemoteHttpRequest.java:117)
at org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequest$4.body(KieRemoteHttpRequest.java:1291)
at org.kie.services.client.api.command.AbstractRemoteCommandObject.executeRestCommand(AbstractRemoteCommandObject.java:404)
... 4 more

Caused by: java.net.HttpRetryException: cannot retry due to server authentication, in streaming mode
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1637)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1440)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:480)
at org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequest.responseCode(KieRemoteHttpRequest.java:1305)
at org.kie.remote.common.rest.KieRemoteHttpRequest.post(KieRemoteHttpRequest.java:719)
at org.kie.services.client.api.command.AbstractRemoteCommandObject.executeRestCommand(AbstractRemoteCommandObject.java:392)
... 4 more

The role needs to be added to the file application-roles.properties and put into the standalone server directory, jboss-eap-6.4/standalone/configuration/application-roles.properties. For example, in our project you will find it looks like this:

erics=analyst,admin,manager,user,loanOfficer,kie-server,rest-all

Now when you run the client application to pre-load your processes you will see:

$ java -jar support/jboss-mortgage-demo-client.jar erics bpmsuite1!

Started process instances successfully!

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For more details you can explore this in the Generic Loan demo project as found in JBoss Demo Central.

jBPM lead Kris Verlaenen talks process-driven application at Devoxx (video)

Devoxx 2015 wrapped up a few weeks ago, but the video content they put together for each and every session is becoming available online via YouTube for the first time this year.

Kris Verlaenen presented a full hour session on the features, including several demonstrations, that will be coming in the next product release of JBoss BPM Suite 6.2. What he demonstrates are a few example projects that leverage the current community project jBPM and are well worth the time to explore hands on with Kris in this BPM hour of power.

As he states in his report, "In the demo, I built out a small expenses process, and a custom screen (using AngularJS) that can list my current expenses and create new ones just the way I want to. You can even add some small dashboards to keep track of the number of open expense reports or a quick overview of how many expense reports you submitted in the last year and when.

I also showed how to support more flexible and adaptive cases, where you want to give the end user the capability to make decisions or to dynamically add new tasks (all the way to the extreme where you don't define anything upfront but start a new ad-hoc case)."

The full report from Kris himself can be found over on his site Processes, Rules and Events.

Quick Tour #3: How to install JBoss BRMS (video)

With the announcement that we have updated the JBoss BRMS Starter Kit you might have noticed that a few quick tour videos were promised.

On that promise we are starting to deliver with a series of short and simple video stories.

Today another in the series, we show you in just over two minutes how to install JBoss BRMS for working on the JBoss BRMS Starter Kit.

We hope you enjoy this story and stay tuned for more...

Did you miss the other quick tour videos?

1. Quick Tour #1: JBoss BRMS the Basic Install Project 
2. Quick Tour #2: Where to get JBoss BRMS product
3. Quick Tour #3: How to install JBoss BRMS
4. Quick Tour #4: Start your first JBoss BRMS project
5. Quick Tour #5: How to import a project into JBoss BRMS
6. Quick Tour #6: Build & run a JBoss BRMS project
7. Quick Tour #7: What's in Business Central



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OSCON 2016 submission - Riding the seas of change with an online retail travel agency

I have submitted a talk to OSCON 2016 in Austin, Texas next year on May 18-19th.

The trigger was a rather interesting category around real life solutions and how Open Source can be applied.

They described it as:

"Hearing about how a company or team has succeeded with a new initiative, implemented a new language, or reconfigured their architecture is fascinating—so is listening in on the failures. Both success and failure have a lot to teach us. As individuals we have a limit to how many of those we can complete in one year so this track is about sharing war stories and life on the front lines. Help the person beside you and tell your story. All proposals here should be in the form of real-life stories. How did you go from a monolith to microservices? Now that you’ve migrated to microservices, how do you manage them in production? How did they hack your system?"

With this in mind, I have put together a story around the JBoss BPM Travel Agency to highlight OpenSource solutions when migrating to microservices and then later when an acquisitions requires the need for data virtualization solutions to prevent bookings losses mid-season.

The talk outline is listed below.

Summary

The attendee will journey with a small retail travel agency that weathers the storms of doing business in a fast moving, modern IT landscape. The adventures start with a microservice migration, continues with a mid-season acquisition of a sister agency requiring an agile data virtualization solution to prevent revenue loss. Hold on tight as you ride stormy seas of a retail travel agency business.

Abstract

This session will take the attendee on a journey as a small retail travel agency weathers the storms of doing business in a fast moving IT landscape. The attendee will be taken from initial implementation of a services based architecture for a travel booking solution, through a microservices migration, to finally dealing with an acquisition of a sister agency during the high point of the booking season that requires virtual data integration solutions.

Attendees will be:

• given insights into a retail travel booking solution based on Open Source software.
• shown how rules and events can be leveraged for fraud detection on payment methods.
• provided with complete access to project solution that migrates existing services to microservices.
• taken on the journey of acquiring a sister agency during the high point of the travel booking season.
• shown how both agency's data sources were integrated without disrupting booking processes or revenue generation.
• left with example projects showing how solutions were implemented for further review after session.
• pointed to workshop materials where they can get hands on with the solutions presented.

Be ready to hold on tight as you ride the stormy seas of a retail travel agency's business as it grows and adapts to their ever changing retail markets using Open Source software solutions.

Sound like something worth attending?

Webinar slides from 6 Steps to Your First Process with JBoss BPM Suite Starter Kit

Click image to register for webinar

Today I presented the webinar about the basics to getting started with JBoss BPM Suite.

No more excuses, you can now start learning business process management (BPM) for free with the product and professional guidance with the JBoss BPM Suite Starter Kit.

There really is no better way to get your feet wet and start your first process project with JBoss BPM Suite, so be sure to register online today.

Note, this webinar was recorded so that if you miss the live event, you can still register to see the recording.

Slides from webinar:

Hope you enjoyed the JBoss BPM Suite Starter Kit.

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Impressions from Building Business Capabilities (BBC) 2015

This last week I spent on the ground at Building Business Capabilities (BBC) 2015, a conference for business analysts and organized by business analysts.

This was a bit of a different type of conference than the ones I tend to speak at, those being more technical in nature and this one being more about the aspects that business analyst have to deal with on a daily basis. This is what made it so fascinating for me, to hear their stories and understand what we as Red Hat meant to them when trying to solve their problems or fill in a solution.

Generation based research shows
example reactions to leadership
actions, by Dr. Mary.

The conference was the entire week with Monday and Tuesday filled with pre-conference tutorials which are more hands on sessions. There were tutorials on decision management, process design principles, business architects practices and many more. I chose to skip this part of the conference and arrived for the main event from Wednesday through Friday.

The keynote was very well done by the famous Dr. Mary Donohue who talked about how to lead when nobody is listening. This was a take on the ways we operate as humans, what the cognitive aspects are backing her theories and a great example of how our audiences are reacting to our leadership actions based on generation research. Very entertaining and well delivered, probably on of the best keynotes I have seen with regards to conference applicability, content and delivery.

After that I spend the next few days enjoying the conversations as you bump into some very interesting people that work more on the business side of our technology. There were over 1500 attendees I was told and a vast array of industries were represented. Got the chance to talk to business analysts from branches such as retail, insurance, finance, railways, infrastructure and airlines.

Over 1500 attendees, business analysts everywhere!

There were also many interesting vendors in the fields of business rules, business dictionaries, consulting, decision management and business process management that we chatted with. I have a few new tools and vendors I plan to look deeper into in the coming weeks.

Signavio with whom we have been working with over the last few months was on-site with a booth so we got to spend some time with their US sales team and product manager. A lunch and learn session by Tom Debevoise covered Signavio's vision on decision management and Decision Management Notation (DMN) was notable with an invitation to join the evening impromptu OMG standards meeting to discuss DMN.

Immersion into world of #DMN by @tomdebevoise from @signavio at #BBCConf in Lunch & Learn session. pic.twitter.com/l6q3v52zid

— Eric D. Schabell (@ericschabell) November 4, 2015

A session by Jerry Vaughn and Jeanine Bradley called Defining & Selling Strategic Change Programs at Railinc covered what it took to align, convince, gather and sell the $5.5 million dollar project to align an array of business logic and applications to industry standard processes within the rail industry. Fascinating and well delivered with concise overviews of the planning, the approach and the hurdles they had to take to pull together a very convincing story for funding major improvements across a complex business landscape.

That's a lot of strategic change for US trains @Railinc !!! #BBCConf pic.twitter.com/2gxyiJsimr

— Eric D. Schabell (@ericschabell) November 4, 2015

This was so interesting that I took the time in the following break to catch up with the speakers team and some of the actual business team that has been involved with this project, great insights as to how JBoss technology is used in a small part of a bigger business innovation solution.

Standardizing with #JBoss #BRMS for rules. #BBCConf pic.twitter.com/6oMpJtoNwV

— Eric D. Schabell (@ericschabell) November 4, 2015

This is but a small taste of what we experienced, there were too many to go into detail on each and every one. The sessions and speakers can be found online and the slides have been made available there too. All in all, this was a conference I would recommend to anyone interested in meeting with and mingling in the world of business solutions to chat with the practitioners and tooling vendors in this space.

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I hope to be back next year!

JBoss Technology Evangelist - 3 keys to becoming an evangelist

A questions I often get is, "What is it that a JBoss Technology Evangelist does?"

After spending a minute on a short overview, the next question is almost always, "How can I get a role like that?"

Leaving it to the reader to research the background of the word 'evangelist', we will instead outline the key characteristics that every effective JBoss Technology Evangelist has.

JBoss is a community of middleware community projects that are then leveraged by Red Hat to produce a full range of JBoss middleware products. While Red Hat employs Developer Advocates to promote these community projects and foster developer focus on JBoss technologies, it is the products Red Hat sells that receive a more focused attention. This focus is provided for each product by a JBoss Technology Evangelist,

 What is it that they do exactly and what can you do to align your efforts so that your path leads to a role as a JBoss Technology Evangelist?

1. Teaching core

The JBoss Technology Evangelist is worldwide actively promoting, creating and delivering technical marketing assets that drive technical audiences to purchase or influence purchase of Red Hat JBoss Middleware Integration products & services. The JBoss Technology Evangelist will try to focus efforts towards results that are highly leveraged, but may also be required to help in more specialized efforts such as helping close a specific customer. The JBoss Technology Evangelist has significant technical sales enablement responsibility and also helps influence JBoss Middleware product direction by internally communicating requirements and opportunities learned through prospect and customer interactions.

The bottom line is that if you peel back the outer layers of a JBoss Technology Evangelist, the core will always be that of a teacher. They need to have a desire, no a passion, to want to teach what they know. 

This might start with an audience of just one as they mentor a junior colleague and eventually range into audiences of thousands as you present sessions live on stage at an event. This teaching can be structured, such as getting experience as guest teacher in formal schools or universities or it can be through teaching technical classes for an employer. It can be through hosting workshops after working hours to pass on knowledge to your colleagues or it can be as simple as posting articles showing the reader how to do something.  

The bottom line is that if you are not a teacher at heart, then this role is not for you.

2.  Storytelling

A JTE has a proven understanding of what it takes to motivate technical audiences and ability to translate that understanding into impactful execution that converts developer awareness and preference into revenue. 

There is nothing you can teach if you can't bring it across to audiences. This might be to a single person, a small group or large diverse audiences that come from culturally diverse backgrounds around the world.

It is more than presenting slides, it is the ability to bring across your enthusiasm for the topic(s) you are trying to teach. It is not enough to stand up and demo a new technology and talk to a few slides. You need to have a way to understand and reach the audience, reading their reactions, adjusting your story if the audience that turns up is not the one promised when you designed your talk.

You need to practice your storytelling and spend time researching how others do it. Look into styles like PetchaKucha with stores told in 20 slides each auto advanced every 20 seconds, no control by the presenter. Expanding your horizons on how to tell your stories will make you a better storyteller.

You also need to reach more than just an audience sitting right in front of you, so producing content online in the form of articles, video content and maintaining a social media presence are all essential extensions of how you apply storytelling. We tell stories in books, papers, articles and by covering our topics online with social media.

Each form of storytelling requires different abilities and needs to be demonstrated before you can obtain the role of JBoss Technology Evangelist. You should have at least one, if not more, places online where you publish your articles. You should have an online social media presence to push out your content and start discussions around your topics.

Storytelling is an art and you have to constantly refine your approach, but the bottom line is can you reach your audiences and have an impact?

3. Technology skills

A proven ability to create high-quality, compelling technical marketing content proven charismatic ability to energize and excite technical audiences for middleware product offerings.

You can't be a technical evangelist without some sort of skills, but it is not just being able to code. You need to understand the organization required to create content and demos that are both repeatable and easy for your audiences to use.

With the myriad of platforms that your target audiences are using, you need to make your demos accessible and reusable as the main point of these are to replace you doing them yourself on site. Remember, you are the expert and you don't scale!

The technology content you provide has to not only be interesting, cover the topics or issues desired, but it also has to be so easy to use that any attempt to redo what you have just done live on stage does not end in a call to you for help. If you have to answer questions around how to use your content, you have failed.

Previously posted is this article on how to use a framework and template that has been successfully used for JBoss demo projects hosted on JBoss Demo Central for years.

Summary

If you can take these three keys and work on them in your daily roles, you too can reach out for the next opening as a JBoss Technology Evangelist. Remember, you have to teach, you have to be able to tell stories, and you have to leverage your technology skill set in a way that is easy to both understand and consume.

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This is not the all encompassing guide to becoming a JBoss Technology Evangelist, but in my experience they are the top three things that make someone effective and successful in the role.

They can be learned, they can be refined and if you are serious about moving into the role, they are the three things you should focus on starting right now.

How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9

The release of the latest JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) brings with it the questions around how to get started with the various JBoss Integration and BPM product tool sets that are not installed out of the box.

In this series of articles we will outline for you how to install each set of tools and explain which products they are supporting.

This should help you in making an informed decision about what tooling you might want to install before embarking on your next JBoss integration project.

There are five different software packs that offer tooling for various JBoss integration products:

1. JBoss Integration and SOA Development
2. JBoss Business Process and Rules Development
3. JBoss Fuse Development
4. JBoss Data Virtualization Development
5. JBoss SOA 5.x Development



Currently available as early access.

This article will outline how to get started with the JBoss Integration and SOA Development tooling and JBDS 9.

Installation

JBDS 9 can be obtained through the Customer Portal or via the early access downloads on jboss.org. After installing JBDS, start it up and you will see a welcoming JBoss Central tab with at the bottom a tab to look at the available tool sets labeled Software/Update. 

You will notice at the time of this writing that there are no other JBoss Integration stacks offered to install upon first inspection. This is due to the other integration stacks being early access.

Select JBoss Integration and SOA Development.

Eventually they will be shown by default once testing finished and they release, but for now you can obtain them by checking the Early Access box in the bottom right corner. 

This will reveal the integration stack tooling offerings and we will select JBoss Integration and SOA Development.

Click on the Install/Update button to start the installation and restart at the end to complete the process.

If you are interested in what is being installed, it can be examined by examining the pop-up listing of components and versions. Note this will change as the early access progresses towards final releases.

Examine components and versions to be installed.

Stay tuned for more articles in this series that will detail the installation of the remaining JBoss Integration Stack tools.

Other options

In the past we have outlined the use of JBoss BPM and rules tooling for other versions of JBDS:

• How To Setup Process Automation Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Data Virtualization Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Integration Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup Integration and SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Data Virtualization Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Integration and SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9 
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup Big Data Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup SOA 5.x Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup Big Data Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup SOA 5.x Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• JBoss Developer Studio 7 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 6 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 5 - how to add Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler as jBPM designer
• JBoss Developer Studio 5 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add native BPMN2 editor
• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add native BPMN editor / Enterprise Architect Savara tooling



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• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add tech preview BPEL tooling

Quick Tour #2: Where to get JBoss BRMS product (video)

With the announcement that we have updated the JBoss BRMS Starter Kit you might have noticed that a few quick tour videos were promised.

On that promise we are starting to deliver with a series of short and simple video stories.

Today another in the series, we show you in just under two and a half minutes where you can obtain the product JBoss BRMS for working on the JBoss BRMS Starter Kit.

We hope you enjoy this story and stay tuned for more...

Did you miss the other quick tour videos?

1. Quick Tour #1: JBoss BRMS the Basic Install Project 
2. Quick Tour #2: Where to get JBoss BRMS product
3. Quick Tour #3: How to install JBoss BRMS
4. Quick Tour #4: Start your first JBoss BRMS project
5. Quick Tour #5: How to import a project into JBoss BRMS
6. Quick Tour #6: Build & run a JBoss BRMS project
7. Quick Tour #7: What's in Business Central



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How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9

The release of the latest JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) brings with it the questions around how to get started with the various JBoss Integration and BPM product tool sets that are not installed out of the box.

In this series of articles we will outline for you how to install each set of tools and explain which products they are supporting.

This should help you in making an informed decision about what tooling you might want to install before embarking on your next JBoss integration project.

There are five different software packs that offer tooling for various JBoss integration products:

1. JBoss Fuse Development
2. JBoss Business Process and Rules Development
3. JBoss Data Virtualization Development
4. JBoss SOA 5.x Development
5. JBoss Integration and SOA Development



Currently available as early access.

This article will outline how to get started with the JBoss Fues Development tooling and JBDS 9.

Installation

JBDS 9 can be obtained through the Customer Portal or via the early access downloads on jboss.org. After installing JBDS, start it up and you will see a welcoming JBoss Central tab with at the bottom a tab to look at the available tool sets labeled Software/Update. 

You will notice at the time of this writing that there are no other JBoss Integration stacks offered to install upon first inspection. This is due to the other integration stacks being early access.

Select JBoss Fuse Development.

Eventually they will be shown by default once testing finished and they release, but for now you can obtain them by checking the Early Access box in the bottom right corner. 

This will reveal the integration stack tooling offerings and we will select JBoss Fuse Development.

Click on the Install/Update button to start the installation and restart at the end to complete the process.

If you are interested in what is being installed, it can be examined by examining the pop-up listing of components and versions. Note this will change as the early access progresses towards final releases.

Examine components and versions to be installed.

Stay tuned for more articles in this series that will detail the installation of the remaining JBoss Integration Stack tools.

Other options

In the past we have outlined the use of JBoss BPM and rules tooling for other versions of JBDS:

• How To Setup Process Automation Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Data Virtualization Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Integration Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup Integration and SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Data Virtualization Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Integration and SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9 
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup Big Data Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup SOA 5.x Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup Big Data Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup SOA 5.x Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• JBoss Developer Studio 7 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 6 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 5 - how to add Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler as jBPM designer
• JBoss Developer Studio 5 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add native BPMN2 editor
• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add native BPMN editor / Enterprise Architect Savara tooling



Looking to Automate your business?

• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add tech preview BPEL tooling

Examining Red Hat JBoss BRMS design time architecture for rules and events (part IV)

(Article guest authored together with John Hurlocker, Senior Middleware Consultant at Red Hat in North America)

This is the forth and final part in the series started around possible Red Hat JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS) deployment architectures.

Previously we covered in three separate articles the various deployment architectures and rule authoring tasks you have to deploy a rules and/or events project in your enterprise.

In this article we move forward to the various aspects around rule deployments with a focus on the choices available to a rule administrator in delivering the rules to her enterprise applications.

Rule artifacts found in artifact repository.

Deploying with KieScanner

After the rule administrator builds a project it is available in the Artifact repository.  Select Open to get the contents of a pom.xml file.  The project is also downloadable as a jar file that can be included in your deployable artifact (e.g. EAR, WAR).

KieScanner deployment.

Once the project JAR is available in the Artifact repository the KieScanner will pick it up on the configured interval and load the new version into the KieContainer.

Any new KieSessions created in the application will be created against the latest version.

Deploying embedded

If you would rather not use the KieScanner or your rules do not change often enough to require a KieScanner then you can still embedded the rule project within your application.

Embedding rules artifact into application.

Once the project is built its available for download from the Artifact repository page in JBoss BRMS Business Central workbench.

This can be downloaded manually and included into another version control repository or can be accessed through an URL and included in your application:

• http://localhost:8080/brms-central/maven2/<project_path> 

As an example based on our figures included in this article, our project artifact could be found here:

• http://localhost:8080/business-central/maven2/org/kie/example/project1/1.0.0/project1-1.0.0.jar

Rule administrator defines a realtime decision server
by putting a rule project into a container.

In this situation the rule project JAR is included in your application deployable (e.g. WAR/EAR) as any other JAR file would.

Deploying realtime decision server

The final option available to a rule administrator has been included in JBoss BRMS 6.1,  an out-of-the-box rule decision server.  

This realtime decision server is deployed by default with JBoss BRMS, but can be deployed to any other web container since it’s a WAR.

Realtime decision server deployments.

Rules can then be instantiated and executed through REST, JMS, or Java interfaces. The realtime decision server manages containers that can run independently of each other. A rule administrator can create a container and select a rule project that will run in that container.  

Once the container is started applications can access them through the container endpoint, for example:

• http://localhost:8080/kie-server/services/rest/server/containers/Container1  

The container then exposes all the functionality needed by an application through its REST interface as detailed in the documentation.

Going back

If you want to head back and catch up on the previous articles in this series:

Looking to Automate your business?

• Go back to part I...
• Go back to part II...
• Go back to part III...

This concludes this series where we examined Red Hat JBoss BRMS design time architectures for rules and events, with thanks to John Hurlocker.

How To Setup Big Data Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9

The release of the latest JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) brings with it the questions around how to get started with the various JBoss Integration and BPM product tool sets that are not installed out of the box.

In this series of articles we will outline for you how to install each set of tools and explain which products they are supporting.

This should help you in making an informed decision about what tooling you might want to install before embarking on your next JBoss integration project.

There are five different software packs that offer tooling for various JBoss integration products:

1. JBoss Data Virtualization Development
2. JBoss Business Process and Rules Development
3. JBoss Fuse Development
4. JBoss SOA 5.x Development
5. JBoss Integration and SOA Development



Currently available as early access.

This article will outline how to get started with the JBoss Data Virtualization Development tooling and JBDS 9.

Installation

JBDS 9 can be obtained through the Customer Portal or via the early access downloads on jboss.org. After installing JBDS, start it up and you will see a welcoming JBoss Central tab with at the bottom a tab to look at the available tool sets labeled Software/Update. 

You will notice at the time of this writing that there are no other JBoss Integration stacks offered to install upon first inspection. This is due to the other integration stacks being early access.

Select JBoss Data Virtualization Development.

Eventually they will be shown by default once testing finished and they release, but for now you can obtain them by checking the Early Access box in the bottom right corner. 

This will reveal the integration stack tooling offerings and we will select JBoss Data Virtualization Development.

Click on the Install/Update button to start the installation and restart at the end to complete the process.

If you are interested in what is being installed, it can be examined by examining the pop-up listing of components and versions. Note this will change as the early access progresses towards final releases.

Examine components and versions to be installed.

Stay tuned for more articles in this series that will detail the installation of the remaining JBoss Integration Stack tools.

Other options

In the past we have outlined the use of JBoss BPM and rules tooling for other versions of JBDS:

• How To Setup Process Automation Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Data Virtualization Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Integration Tooling for CodeReady Studio 12
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup Integration and SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 11
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Data Virtualization Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Integration and SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 10
• How To Setup Fuse Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9 
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup Big Data Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup SOA 5.x Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9
• How To Setup BPM and Rules Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup Big Data Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• How To Setup SOA 5.x Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 8
• JBoss Developer Studio 7 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 6 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 5 - how to add Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler as jBPM designer
• JBoss Developer Studio 5 - how to setup SOA Tools (BRMS example)
• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add native BPMN2 editor
• JBoss Developer Studio 4.0 - how to add native BPMN editor / Enterprise Architect Savara tooling



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