Workflow Guide

JBoss jBPM is a flexible, extensible framework for process languages. jPDL is one process language that is build on top of that common framework. It is an intuitive process language to express business processes graphically in terms of tasks, wait states for asynchronous communication, timers, automated actions,... To bind these operations together, jPDL has the most powerful and extensible control flow mechanism.

jPDL has minimal dependencies and can be used as easy as using a java library. But it can also be used in environments where extreme throughput is crucial by deploying it on a J2EE clustered application server.

jPDL can be configured with any database and it can be deployed on any application server.

• Overview
• jBPM installation
• jBPM configuration
• Eclipse plugin
  • Eclipse plugin: Installation
  • Eclipse plugin: Usage
• Process modelling
• Hello world!
• Starting a workflow
• Use of node node
• Use of decision node
• Use of task node
• User input request
• Workflow Forms definition
• Administration interface
• Examples
  • Examples: Simple
  • Examples: Medium
  • Examples: Advanced
  • Examples: Purchase
  • Examples: Process Handler

Let's see a example execution of the medium workflow at Sample Workflow Execution.

Here you have some links with documentation and tutorials:

• jBPM User Guide
• jBPM Tutorial
• jBPM Simulation Tutorial
• JBoss Tools News and Noteworthy

Also there are some interesting books:

• Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM
• jBPM Developer Guide