| h2. Introducing Activiti |
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| Activiti is a BPMN 2.0 process-engine framework that implements the BPMN 2.0 specification. |
| It's able to perform BPMN 2.0 functions including deploy process definitions, start new process instances, execute user tasks ecc.ecc.. |
| Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. |
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| h3. Activiti Engine |
| This is the heart of the Activiti project. It's a Java process engine that runs BPMN 2 processes natively. It will have the following key properties: |
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| * Allows user updates to be combined with process updates in a single transaction |
| * Runs on any Java environment like Spring, JTA, standalone with any form of transaction demarcation |
| * Easy to get up and running with the setup utility |
| * Built to support the cloud scalability from the ground up |
| * Very simple to add new custom activity types and complete dedicated process languages |
| * Transactional timers |
| * Asynchronous continuations |
| * Hidden event listeners for decoupling software technical details from business level diagram |
| * Ability to test process executions in isolation in a plain unit test |
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| h2. Goal of this guide |
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| The goal of this guide is to look into the details for using Activiti inside ServiceMix: |
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| * create a project |
| * write and debug a simple process |
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| h2. Examples |
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| The Apache ServiceMix distributions also contain a Activiti example. You can find these example in the {{examples/activiti}} directory. |
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| h2. More information about Activiti |
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| More information about Activiti itself, can be found on [http://activiti.org/]. |
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| There's also book available about Activiti |
| * Tijs Rademakers. (July 2012). _Activiti in Action_. Greenwich, CT: Manning. ISBN: 9781617290121. |
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