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Introduction

The Activiti has a clear origin in the jBPM project of JBoss. The former lead developers of jBPM, Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez, created a vibrant community around this process engine and they created a process virtual machine sub-project that enabled jBPM to be used for multiple process languages. At that point in time Alfresco was using jBPM in their document management system for the implementation of foremost workflow related functionality. But they were looking for a process engine with a more liberal open source license. ventually Alfresco decided to create a liberal Apache licensed open source process engine themselves and contacted Tom and Joram. Activiti was born!

Installation

extract activiti-5.0.zip to C:\Uwes\java\activiti\5.0\

Eclipse Plug-In

as decribed in Documentation to local Helios eclipse version

Documentation

Local Documentation file:///C:/Uwes/java/Activiti/5.0/docs/userguide/index.html
Activite Home Documentation http://www.activiti.org/userguide/index.html

Architecture

Eplorer: work item list
Probe: admin area
Cycle: business it alignment
Modeler: modeling tool
Designer: eclipse plugin modeling tool, started and maintained by Tijs Rademakers, Tiese Barrell, Ron van Liempd and Yvo Swillens.

Initial Tests

Users Guide

C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\setup\ant demo.start
hangs because tomcat port is already in use
change tomcat port in C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\conf\server.xml from 8080 to 8099
replace all occurences of 8080 to 8099 in C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\setup\build.xml
set CATALINA_HOME to C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.29\
import the example projects from C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\workspace into eclipse

Eclipse based Tutorial

http://activiti.org/designer/update/
just read but modeling via Modeler seams more reasonable

Pizza Tutorial

Blog

Didn't work because of missing class.

C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\setup\ant h2.install h2.start
C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\setup\ant db.create
C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\apps\h2\java -cp h2*.jar org.h2.tools.Server -web
start URL http://localhost:8082 with JDBC URL 'jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/activiti'
New Java project 'ActivitiTest1' with eclipse und external jars in 'C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\setup\files\dependencies\libs\*'
C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\setup\ant cfg.create
add external jar C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\5.0\setup\build\activiti-cfg.jar to project

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 ==Introduction==
-The Activiti has a clear origin in the [[BPM#JBoss_jBPM|jBPM]] project of JBoss. The former lead developers of jBPM, Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez, created a vibrant community around this process engine and they created a process virtual machine sub-project that enabled jBPM to be used for multiple process languages.
+The Activiti has a clear origin in the [[BPM#JBoss_jBPM|jBPM]] project of JBoss. The former lead developers of jBPM, Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez, created a vibrant community around this process engine and they created a process virtual machine sub-project that enabled jBPM to be used for multiple process languages. At that point in time Alfresco was using jBPM in their document management system for the implementation of foremost workflow related functionality. But they were looking for a process engine with a more liberal open source license. ventually Alfresco decided to create a liberal Apache licensed open source process engine themselves and contacted Tom and Joram. Activiti was born!
 ==Installation==