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| == 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, and execute user tasks. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid |
| BPMN 2 process engine for Java. |
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| === Activiti Engine |
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| 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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| == 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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| == Examples |
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| The Apache ServiceMix distributions also contains an Activiti example. You can find this example in the _examples/activiti_ directory. |
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| == 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 |
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| * Tijs Rademakers. (July 2012). _Activiti in Action_. Greenwich, Manning. ISBN: 9781617290121. |
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| image::rademakers2.png[Activiti in Action] |
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