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Can we migrate case-flows from Savvion to jBPM?
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/vidhyakp28">Vidhya Prabhu</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/759567#759567">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>I am a newbie, and am very interested in process development in jBPM. I have a very interesting usecase at hand and need to give solution in its implementation.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">We have currently implemented our BPM flow using Savvion 6.5 product. We are searching for an open source solution to migrate existing business flow. I found jBPM suitable for the requirement. </span></p><p><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;"/></p><p>There are certain queries that I need to understand:</p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">1. Is it possible to migrate existing case flows from Savvion to jBPM ? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">2. If yes, how could we migrate from Savvion to jBPM?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">3. If in case there is no solution, what details are required to have a customized utility for the same? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;"><br/></span></p><p><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;"/></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">Our application is purely JEE based deployed on Weblogic Server and we use jax-WS to integrate with Savvion. So, I assume we can do the same using jBPM web-services.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">Let me introduce to what we have implemented in the Savvion product: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;">We create business flow mainly using subprocesses (call-activity with child sub-processes in different templates), swim-lanes, split/XOR  gateways, data variables, LDAP connectors etc. available in Savvion. <br/></span></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">We have 4-5 case types and each case-type has its own workflow. Every workflow has four phases and each phase has phase-activities which in-turn has worksteps (templates).</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">1. Phases could be intial, in-progress, contract and production.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">2. Phase-activities are department specific. For eg. Sales, Operation etc. </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">3. Worksteps are assigned to a group(team) or specific user.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">   Certain worksteps have some business-rule validation before execution which requires to be fulfilled. </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">   The approach used is using of tokens. A workstep can have many validation tokens separated by comma. e.g VALIDATE_EMAIL,VALIDATE_USERNAME. </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">  </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Once we deploy this business flow, using Savvion BPM Studio, it internally copies the BPM related files to server and <em><strong>creates a table for each template</strong></em>.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Now the process is as follows:</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">1. Application has a provision to start the process flow - Savvion creates a process instance for the template and add one entry in respective database table. For eg, we have a template name 'App_CustomerContact', table name same as template name. This process-instance is related to only one case.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">2. The application makes user available with assigned worksteps in the form of checklist. The user then completes these worksteps (We call it as measure-points). Once the user has completed his assigned worksteps, the next workstep will be available to team/other user as per business flow.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">So we require to migrate our existing process-instances into jBPM and also create new processes using jBPM templates. </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">We do have knowledge how Savvion creates data into its database.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">I am attaching a sample workflow template developed in Savvion BPM.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff;"><br/></span></p></div>
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