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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! The Activiti project started off at a very fast pace and succeeded to do a monthly release of the tool stack until the stable 5.0 release in December 2010.

Installation

extract activiti-5.3.zip to C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\activiti-5.3
than see user guide installation

Eclipse Plug-In

as decribed in Documentation to local Helios eclipse version

Running Activiti

C:\Uwes\java\activiti\5.0\setup\ant (default target is demo.start) starts h2-DB on port 9092 and tomcat on port 8099. Other targets are tomcat.start, tomcat.stop, h2.start, h2.stop, db.drop, db.create.

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

see sheet Activiti

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\activiti-5.3\setup\ant demo.start
shutdown JBoss because tomcat port is already in use
set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\activiti-5.3\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.32
import the example projects from C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\activiti-5.3\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.

Configuration

Resources

C:\Uwes\Documents\Software_Development\Modeling\BusinessProcessModeling\BPM.vsd
C:\Uwes\Documents\Software_Development\Modeling\BusinessProcessModeling\Activiti\ActivitiInAction.pdf

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 ===Users Guide===
 * C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\activiti-5.3\setup\ant demo.start
-* shutdown JBoss by [[JBoss#Productive|JBoss]] because tomcat port is already in use
+* shutdown [[JBoss#Productive|JBoss]] because tomcat port is already in use
 * set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\activiti-5.3\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.32
 * import the example projects from C:\Uwes\java\Activiti\activiti-5.3\workspace into eclipse