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http://kverlaen.blogspot.com/2011/06/jbpm-510-released.html
http://kverlaen.blogspot.com/2011/06/jbpm-510-released.html
We're proud to announce the release of jBPM 5.1.0.
jBPM is a flexible open-source Business Process Management (BPM)
Suite. The core of jBPM is a light-weight, extensible workflow engine written in pure
Java that allows you to execute business processes using the latest BPMN 2.0
specification. It can run in any Java environment, embedded in your application or as a
service. On top of that, it supports a lot of tooling to support the business process
through its entire life cycle, both for developers and business users. This includes an
Eclipse plugin, web-based Designer, repository, management console, etc.
You can download everything
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jbpm/files/jBPM%205/jbpm-5.1.0.Final/ here.
jBPM 5.1 includes a lot of small bug fixes and feature enhancements based on the feedback
we received from the community (for
http://kverlaen.blogspot.com/2011/01/jbpm-50-released.html jBPM 5.0). Most important
improvements include:
* The web-based
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/ch10.html Designer has been
extended significantly to support all BPMN 2.0 constructs and to allow full round-tripping
between the Eclipse-based and the web-based editor. It also supports domain-specific
nodes now, can be embedded, etc.
* A new
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/ch08.html jbpm-examples module contains
a large number of example processes to show features like human tasks (including data
passing and task forms), looping, multiple instances, rule-based integration, etc. I will
describe some of these examples in more detail in some additional blog entries in the next
few days.
* Improved testing and debugging capabilities so you can easily
http://kverlaen.blogspot.com/2011/04/junit-testing-your-jbpm5-processes.html JUnit-test
your processes.
* The
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/ documentation has been refactored,
updated and extended. There's a new
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/ch01.html Overview and
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/ch02.html Getting Started chapter, and much
more. And we'll continue this work in the next few weeks as well, so you can expect
more details soon.
* The
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/ch09.html new BPMN 2.0 Eclipse plugin has
made significant steps forward as well. The goal of this new editor is to support the
full BPMN 2.0 specification . It's still work in progress but it can already be used
to create executable BPMN2 processes and execute them on jBPM5. We'll be working hard
to improve the usability in the next few months.
* Smaller feature enhancements, like
* Automatic synchronization of processes in the jbpm-console when new proceses are
deployed on the Guvnor repository
* Simplified data passing to and from human tasks (and forms)
* Extended BPMN2 engine with support for repeating timers
* Support for multi-threading
A full overview of everything that was included can be found in the
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPM jBPM JIRA.
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/images/Chapter-Overview/Overvie...
http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.1/userguide/images/Chapter-Overview/Overvie...
jBPM 5.1.0 is synchronized with Drools 5.2.0, which also has just been released. If you
want to know more, take a look
http://blog.athico.com/2011/06/drools-52-released.html
here.
I'd like to thank everyone that contributed to this release! This includes not just
the core developers obviously, but everyone in the community that contributed in one way
or another, from testing, improving documentation, creating examples, bug reporting to
submitting patches and feature contributions!
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