how to install jbpm in windows?

• Download the zip and unzip it.
• On Linux/Mac, run: jbpm-server/bin/standalone.sh. On Windows, run: jbpm-server\bin\standalone.bat.
• Login/password: wbadmin/wbadmin.

First things first, download jBPM server distribution (if not already done) to start quickly with complete environment.

Just download, unzip and run

Business Central provides feature rich authoring and management environment. It consists of:

Business Central can be accessed (once the server was started) at http://localhost:8080/business-central

There is a set of predefined users that can be used to log directly into Business Central:

Additional users can be created via Business Central Admin section.

KIE Server is the execution server that provides various capabilities

Its complete REST api documentation can be accessed at http://localhost:8080/kie-server/docs

jBPM Case Management Showcase is a web application that aims at illustrating various case management building blocks in action. These are UI components built on top of KIE Server REST api for case management. It's not intended for production usage but more for getting better understanding of the capabilities. Case management, in general should be business focused so generic UI won't provide much business context to the knowledge workers.

jBPM Case Management application can be accessed at http://localhost:8080/jbpm-casemgmt

Same users as for Business Central can be used to logon to this application.

Once you get yourself familiar with the tools of the jBPM it's time to see something running. The easiest way is to try one of the examples shipped with the platform, it will show typical path users take to design, build and execute business logic.

Evaluation process is a business process that is human centric (heavily uses human actors to perform work) that defines a complete flow of activities to perform employee evaluation. This examples shows:

IT Orders case is more advanced use of the jBPM that relies on dynamic nature of business problems. It allows to take actions based on data so it's more event/data driven than structured processes. Although it still allows users to take advantage of process fragments to express bit of workflows within the case. This examples shows:

More about case management capabilities can be found in following articles

Building new project from scratch can give you an option to have a clean start where you design your process or case to fit your needs. This example shows:

jBPM runs by default with H2 database with file storage - located under /standalone/data/jbpm-db

Users can switch to another database very easily by invoking a script located in /bin.

These scripts assume that database is installed and some default configuration is present:

in case the values are not correct, edit them in the script files jbpm-mysql-config.cli for MySQL and jbpm-postgres-config.cli for PostgreSQL - in both scripts values to be updated are on line 17.

The easiest way to get started is to simply run the installation script to install the demo setup. The demo install will setup all the web tooling (on top of JBoss AS) and Eclipse tooling in a pre-configured setup. Go into the jbpm-installer folder where you unzipped the installer and (from a command prompt) run:

This will:

Running this command could take a while (REALLY, not kidding, we are for example downloading an Eclipse installation, even if you downloaded the full installer).

Once the demo setup has finished, you can start playing with the various components by starting the demo setup:

This will:

Once everything is started, you can start playing with the Eclipse and web tooling, as explained in the following sections.

If you only want to try out the web tooling and do not wish to download and install the Eclipse tooling, you can use these alternative commands:

Similarly, if you only want to try out the Eclipse tooling and do not wish to download and install the web tooling, you can use these alternative commands:

Now continue with the 10-minute tutorials. Once you're done playing and you want to shut down the demo setup, you can use:

JBPM 4 candidates as “state of the art” opensource workflow. As a matter of fact, the workflow engine has gone under substantial modifications.

The highlights of the new release are the following:

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to install JBPM 4 into your JBoss AS, how to setup your DB schema configuration and, finally, how to deploy a sample JBPM application.

Donwload the latest JBPM 4 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbpm/files/

Unzip the archive (Approx 113 MB)

Exploding the archive will produce the following structure.

This is a short explanation on the single directories/files:

We will show how to install JBPM schema into a MySQL database.

At first, create a schema named “jbpm4” on your local MySQL database. Then add an user named “jboss” to the database.

CREATE DATABASE jbpm4;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO -> IDENTIFIED BY ‘jboss’ WITH GRANT OPTION;

Then edit the file JBPM4_HOME\db\jdbc\mysql.properties so that it contains our database properties:

jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jbpm4 jdbc.username=jboss jdbc.password=jboss

Now move the the “db” folder where you will find a build.xml. Launch the following command:

C:\jbpm4\install>ant -Ddatabase=mysql create.jbpm.schema

This will create the JBPM tables in your schema. You can verify from your MySQL client that your DB schema is now set up:

Now add some sample data in your schema which will be necessary for logging into the console:

C:\jbpm4\install>ant -Ddatabase=mysql load.example.identities

If everything was fine, you should have the following entries in the jbpm4_id_user tables which you can use to log on to the jbpm console:

You have to configure the location of your JBoss AS. Move into the “jboss” folder and open the ant build.xml file.

Configure the following properties, at the top of the file:

Now launch the following ant task:

C:\jbpm4\install>ant -Ddatabase=mysql install.jbpm.into.jboss

This will create a “jbpm” folder in your JBoss deploy directory:

The graphical designer is bundled into JBPM 4 distribution into the directory JBPM4_HOME\install\src\gpd. The filename is jbpm-gpd-site.zip. You can install it from the Menu: Help | Software Updates. Select “Add Site” option and then point at the jbpm-gpd-site.zip with the “Archive” option.

We will deploy a simple web application which contains barely a JSP and a process definition file. The process definition file is taken from JBPM 4 examples distribution:

In this process we simply illustrate a transition to a decision node. The decision node choose the workflow path depending on the “content” process variable.

Add to your Web project a simple index.jsp file which deploys the process definition and create a new instance of the process, setting the “content” variable to “good” using an HashMap.

This is a tree view of your web project. As you can see you don’t need to add any library to your web application because they are already bundled in the “jbpm” folder.

jbpmtest.war ¦ index.jsp ¦ +—WEB-INF ¦ web.xml ¦ +—classes sample-process.jpdl.xml

Deploy it on JBoss 5 and verify that the process reached the state “submit document“.

You can use a BeanShell expression to add’ a Java script’ in your JPDL process definition, you can use the