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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/bhargavdesai99">Bhargav Desai</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/643579#643579">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi , </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>        On insistance of <a class="jive-link-profile-small" href="http://community.jboss.org/people/tsurdilovic">Tihomir Surdilovic</a> i m posting all my Questions , doubts in one thread here.  Some of the Questions may appear very generic , with no reference to any business process or use case . Thanks in advance for all the help.<span> :) </span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Questions</span>:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>1. Does jBPM provide any <strong>role - based access control</strong> ? How ? In what way ?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>2. Are all <strong>actions</strong> and <strong>changes</strong> made at <strong>runtime auditable</strong> ? Can you site any example. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>3. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does jBPM integrate with external systems for <strong>availability management</strong>? Availability Managements in the sense i mean <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">the use of            mechanisms such as <strong>recovery</strong> and<strong> fail-over</strong> to support the system availability.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"><br/></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">4. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Are there any <strong>automated failover</strong> capabilities?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><br/></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">5. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does the solution support <strong>distribution</strong> of the <strong>execution environment</strong>?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><br/></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">6. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does the solution provide <strong>central logging</strong>, especially if distributed?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><br/></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7.<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Can an administrator <strong>drill down</strong> from high level workflows through to the low level process or even rules? In what way ?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><br/></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">8.<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Can the runtime data be easily debugged? A complete<strong> trace </strong>is available? I know say <strong>for eg breakpoints</strong> cannot be set when debugging a unit test . So any other way is it possible to debug runtime data. ? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><br/></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">9.<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Can the deployment(say deployment of assets like flows , rules ) be automated via a continuous integration facility, e.g. via Ant, Maven, Hudson?</span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">10.<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does jBPM support <strong>Service Component Architecture (SCA) </strong>and <strong>XML Process Definition Language (XPDL)</strong> ? </span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">11.<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does jBPM support integration with <strong>Visio/MS Office</strong> in order to have a technology agnostic repository of workflows?</span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">12.Can <strong>Rules</strong> be modified at <strong>run-time</strong> ? </span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">13.<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Are there any pre-defined patterns, built-in functionality or settings to allow identification of technical errors or bottlenecks ? Technical errors as in errors <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">causing a business rule or process failure.</span></span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">14. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">KPIs(key process indicators) and business rules can support multiple calendars (peak time, vacation, week-end…) both for the severity and the associated action to avoid or reduce the impact or severity of a fault close to the cut-off time. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><strong>How and to which extent does jBPM  allow and facilitate multiple calendars’ setup and amendments including the assignment of such rule, KPIs to those calendars and different contexts</strong>? </span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">15. How does<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> the interaction between process, service and data tiers occur ? Which protocols are used ? </span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">16. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does jBPM provide a seamless solution to integrate different application styles like , SOA, CEP and Web Applications? One possible scenario is the provisioning of hooks for each application styles, via adapters, or a real composition, like in SCA</span>.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">17. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does the IDE provide seamless views into <strong>DBMS , ERPs </strong>? If yes ,  how ?</span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">18. </span>Does the IDE provide a <strong>data-driven view</strong> in order to model process data focus on data processing?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>19. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Does the IDE provide <strong>visual development capabilities</strong>? Specially features beyond the simple process modeling.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">20. Can jBPM be deployed on cloud ? </span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">21. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Can <strong>I&AM</strong> systems be integrated? If yes, which?</span></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><br/></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><br/></span></p></div>
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