Last week we worked quite hard to improve our library pipelines, acceptance tests and issues that we are targeting for Beta4. We welcomed 3 new (but well-known) members in our community effort @CTI777, @almericoand @igdianovwho are working full time in our Beta4milestone. We have closed 9 issues alr Read more...

Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that Activiti Core & Activiti Cloud Beta3 artifacts had been released. This is our first 2 weeks release sprint where we focused on closing some important issues. You can find the full list here: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/milestone/15?closed=1 These Read more...

Last week we worked quite hard to close some critical issues to be able to release Beta3, which is now work in progress. You can find the issues that we manage to close here: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/milestone/15?closed=1. Most of the work that we are planning for Beta4 is about Conforma Read more...

This blog post describes our approach to CI/CD for our core Java Libraries. This includes the Process Engine, new APIs, and new Spring Boot Starters for the Runtime and Modeling Services of our Cloud Native Building Blocks.We strongly believe that these practices will enable us to scale our developm Read more...

Last week was all about planning for the next iteration plus trying to solve some critical issues that we found while doing Beta2 release. Beta3 will come quite fast, we hope accelerate the release cycle for the Beta phase to make sure that we fix well known issues and we provide consumable artifact Read more...

This is a brief overview of the work we have been doing for the past 68 weeks (from July 2017 to October 2018). It is important to understand that in this timeframe we have architected, designed, implemented, tested and documented the basic building blocks needed for a Cloud Native version of a BPM Read more...

Last week we worked hard on Beta2 release. We manage to upgrade our HELM chartsand test the modeling services to make sure that the basic features included in Beta2 were covered. We are also increasing our Test Coverage for distributed architectures and we will include into our release process the A Read more...

I am happy to announce the release of Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud Beta2. This release includes the first iteration of the Activiti Modeller which is based on the amazing Open Source BPMN.io project. The Activiti Modeller is built on top of the ADF framework (Alfresco Application Development Fra Read more...

Last week we worked hard into creating another stable set for our main BoMs which include Activiti Dependencies: 7.0.49, Activiti Cloud Dependencies: 7.0.71, and Activiti Cloud Modeling Dependencies: 7.0.3. We are testing this artifacts to produce our Beta2 release, but you can consume them from our Read more...

Last week we spend a lot of time preparing for our Core and Cloud Beta2 release. We improved our acceptance tests to cover more scenarios end to end. This included the modeling services. While aligning dependencies and how we build our repositories for a release we found out more optimal ways to red Read more...

Last week we manage to import to, our new CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins X, our Cloud Repositories. Now each repository is being build, checked and released by these pipelines. The resultant artifacts are published to a public Alfresco Nexus Activiti Releases repository. We are currently testing our Scr Read more...

Last week we manage to move forward our CI/CD pipelines. We are currently working with fixed versions of our libraries and we can see light at the end of the tunnel. We hope that by the end of this week we will get our core frameworks ready to be released, then we will work on the service layer (exa Read more...

Last week we spend a lot of time configuring our CI/CD pipelines and that work is going to continue this week. We are now building our libraries using Jenkins X, publishing to our public Alfresco Nexus and configuring Docker Hub for our Docker Images. We are still working on publishing our HELM char Read more...

I’m really excited to be part of the SpringOne Platform | September 24–27, 2018 | Washington, D.C.conference this year. The agenda is just amazing covering topics from: KNative, Project Riff, Istio, Spring Cloud Kubernetes, etc.I am delighted to be presenting with no less than the Spring Cloud CoLea Read more...

Last week we made a huge step forward into our CI/CD approach. We have validated that we can create environments that can connect to our services such as Nexus and DockerHub and we are ready to start importing all the framework projects into the new CI/CD environment. We are still looking into how t Read more...

Last week we made some progress on Cloud Connectors Definitions initial implementation (we are also working in RFC document for this topic) and also we moved forward the TTC acceptance tests projects. There were further refinements on the Spring Cloud Kubernetes Discovery implementation that are bei Read more...

Last week we worked hard on updating the Trending Topics Campaign workshop to work with Keycloak and aligned dependencies for Beta1 and latest snapshots. This week we are pushing our CI/CD approach to move away from fixed versions for all the services and enable fast development cycles for our Cloud Read more...

Hi everyone, it has been long since the last Roadmap update, this blog post address the main reasons why we delayed Activiti Core & Activiti Cloud Beta1and how the work is going to come moving forward. It is important to notice that this update represent the work that is being done in the Open S Read more...

Last week we started with a major clean up in our repositories to better decouple each project responsibility. This will enable us to build and version each module individually to allow faster development cycles. This week we will be setting up these pipelines to test the whole process for our libra Read more...

Last week we worked on the release of Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud Beta1. We wrote some Getting Started guides and we tested the maven artifacts and example services and deployment descriptors quite extensively. We got the Beta1 release deployed in PKS and also tested that the released example s Read more...

I am happy to announce that after more than a year of hard work and particularly intense work over the last 4 months we are ready to release the first Beta version of all the Java Artifacts. You can consume them all from Maven Central.During this release, we focused on providing the first iteration Read more...

We have just released Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud 7.0.0.Beta1to Maven Centraland we wanted to highlight the new Process and Task Runtime APIs. The new APIs were created with a clear purpose to address the following requirementsrovide a clear path to our Cloud approachIsolate internal and exte Read more...

We have just released Activiti Core and Activiti Cloud 7.0.0.Beta1to Maven Centraland we wanted to highlight the new Cloud Native capabilities of Activiti Cloud. For those who haven’t followed what we have been doing over the last year, Activiti Cloud is a set of Cloud Native components designed fro Read more...

Last week we manage to finish and polish the second round on the APIs refactoring and we attended an AWS 2 days training for cloud deployments. We already started a third iteration around the Java Runtime APIs related to security, security policies and further refinements on usability. This week we Read more...

Last week we merged the initial refactoring of the Java Runtime APIs into our develop branches of our projects. We also merged updates on our example projects, quickstart and acceptance tests. The BluePrint TTC project is still due to be migrated to use the latest versions. Now, the Activiti Cloud H Read more...

Last week we moved forward the new APIs refactoring to all of our services and extensions. We started validating the new data types and exposed endpoints against our existing acceptance tests and we are a couple of tests away to finalize the first round of refactorings which will enable us to merge Read more...

Last week we started a new testing round for our Kubernetes Deployments after the initial refactoring to use the new APIs. We are getting better and better into testing large refactorings for distributed deployments and we are looking forward to release Beta1 after this round of testing is finished. Read more...

Last week we spend some time closing the final details of the Java Runtime API and improved our support for Events and Base Data Types to make sure that our services can be completely decoupled. We are looking forward to close this release to continue our journey to continuous deployment of each of Read more...

Last week we made considerable progress on moving forward on the new API implementation in our core services. @erdemedeirosgot the Runtime Bundle and Query Service implementation updated and I took the lead on Audit. Now our core services should use the same data types such as ProcessInstance, Task Read more...

Wow 50 weeks of heavy work! Last week we (the Activiti Team) presented in JDK.IOand JBCNConf. You can find the slides and the workshop instructions here: https://jdk.io/jdk-io-2018/talks/231-cloud-native-business-automationhttps://github.com/Activiti/ttc-docs/blob/develop/workshop.mdhttp://www.jbcnc Read more...