We are getting close to the end of the month so we are trying to close the some pending issues for this milestone (11-2017). Last week (20/11/17 - 26/11/17) we manage to make great progress into the monitoring aspect of our platform and each of our services is getting more and more robust. We are gr Read more...

(WOW 20 weeks already!) Last week (13/11/17 - 19/11/17) was all about polishing our services and looking into other aspects of our infrastructure such as monitoring, distributed configurations, security and system to system interactions. We spent a good amount of time with our project structures and Read more...

Last week (6/11/17 - 12/11/17) we focused on some core refactorings in how our dependencies are managed and organized across all our repositories. We found some issues and we are planning to fixed them one by one. @igdianov presented on friday a session about GraphQL subscriptions and a PoC to bring Read more...

After almost 4 months of heavy work (and 3 Early Access releases) we are moving forward our basic Cloud Native Runtime building blocks (Runtime Bundle, Connectors, Query & Audit) forward and we are reaching a point were we can start building up more advanced services. Because of these progress w Read more...

Last week (30/10/17 - 5/11/17) we focused on releasing 7-201710-EA. You can read more about it here: https://activiti.gitbooks.io/activiti-7-developers-guide/content/releases/7-EA201710.htmlThis release included the initial version of our Activiti Cloud Connectors starter for Spring Boot 2.x plus a Read more...

I'm happy to announce that Activiti & Activiti Cloud 7-EA201710 are out and we encourage people in the community to try and report issues if you find them. This release was focused on improving our base building blocks to get the infrastructure working in Kubernetes and Docker based deployments. Read more...

This week we had the pleasure of recieving @agoncal (Java Champion / Devoxx FR organizer) in our offices to work in a PoC using JHipster, Activiti and Keycloak.We already have a JHipster generator, but we went further into analyzing what are the common problems that people will face when adopting ar Read more...

Last week (16/10/17 - 22/10/17) we started several initiatives to define a new set of services to support our new set of tools. We started by creating a specification document (public) to define how the Process Model Service is going to work. We also move forward some changes on the default behavior Read more...

Over the last weekend we refactored out our repositories structure to make sure that we can evolve each of the services and cloud starters separately. This was a natural step forward to make sure that our projects are aligned with the frameworks that they are depending on. We have moved out the acti Read more...

Are you using any version of the #Activiti project? We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Alfresco DevCon happen in Lisbon, Portugal - 16, 17, 18 January 2018 ( https://www.papercall.io/alfrescodevcon2018 ). If you are using the project or planning to, this is a great opportunity to s Read more...

Last week the team spend some time working around system to system integrations. You can find more about our Activiti Cloud Connectors Strategy here. This new strategy uses some abstraction layers to make sure that when we run inside a Kubernetes enabled environment our connectors can leverage Kuber Read more...

This blog is a continuation of my first blog around the work we Ciju Joseph‌ and Francesco Corti‌ did as part of Alfresco Global Virtual Hack-a-thon 2017In this blog I’ll be walking you through aps-unit-test-example project we created where I’ll be using the features from the aps-unit-test-utils lib Read more...

This blog is the first part of the two blog series around the work we Ciju Joseph‌ & Francesco Corti‌ did as part of Alfresco Global Virtual Hack-a-thon 2017Hack-a-thon Project Description & GoalAlfresco Process Services (APS) powered by Activiti has a standard way to develop custom java log Read more...

Open Source Java Process Engines historically provide a way to create system to system integrations. It is something basic expected from a BPMS. The problem begins when these mechanisms impose a non-standard way of doing those integrations. By non-standard I mean, something that feels awkward coming Read more...

Last week (02/10/17 - 8/10/17) we covered numerous fronts. System to System integrations was a the core, but Igor and Ryan made huge progress on integrating with GraphQL and JHipster.@igdianov finalized the GraphQL Pull Requests and improved our existing Query Code. @ryandawsonuk created the first v Read more...

The aim of this blog post is to show a working CI/CD example for managing process applications built using Alfresco Process Services (APS) powered by Activiti. Please note that the selection of the tools that are used in this article is my personal choice from an ever growing list of open source too Read more...

Alfresco Process Services 1.7 Highlights here   Read more...

Third month in and we are making huge progress. We have an initial set of services designed with a distributed approach in mind. Powered by Spring Cloud our services will run natively in Kubernetes + Docker making sure that there is no impedance mismatch between the infrastructure and the way that t Read more...

Last week (25/9/17 - 1/10/17) we manage to ship our first Early Access release. We are getting quite close to get an initial version of the Activiti Cloud Connectors using Spring Cloud Service Connectors. Also our GraphQL Query endpoints are looking really good thanks to @igdianov. @daisuke-yoshimot Read more...

I'm proud to announce that we are now officially in Maven Central and Docker Hub. Our first Early Access release 7-201709-EA is out for the community to start experimenting. But what does this mean? Why Early Access? When is the next one coming? This blog post tries to clarify what is included in th Read more...

Last week (18/9/17 - 24/9/17) we spend most of our time hardening our examples and our release process. @ryandawsonuk spent most of his time fighting with scripts for making releases as simple and flexible as possible. @erdemedeiros reviewed and merged @daisuke-yoshimoto Pull Request about supportin Read more...

Last week (11/9/17 - 18/9/17) we (@ryandawsonuk and myself) made huge progress validating our new cloud architecture with our partners from Pivotal. We attended Pivotal Partner’s day and discussed with their engineers our plans to run Activiti Cloud on top of Kubernetes and leverage their APIs and i Read more...

For the last two weeks, we have spent most of our time making sure that we can deploy Activiti Cloud components to Kubernetes. We’ve now shown how we can deploy Activiti cloud in the following environmentsocker Compose (Development) MiniKube (Development Environment - but a little bit more real) K Read more...

Last week (4/9/17 - 10/9/17) we spend a lot of time refining our deployments mechanism to fit both Docker Compose and Kubernetes (and Minikube). We worked with @ryandawsonuk to polish our examples and make sure that you can bootstrap the infrastructure following a finite number of steps A blog po Read more...

Last week (Week 29/8/17 - 3/9/17) was quiet, most of the team is on holidays, but we manage to make some progress with @daisuke-yoshimoto and @gmalanga, where two new implementations for the query(ElasticSearch) and audit(MongoDB) module are in the way and pull requests are going to be reviewed this Read more...

After finishing almost two months of work we wanted to update our Roadmap and announce a new Milestone for November. We have made huge progress on Docker, Security and the Kubernetes deployments are almost done. In the next following weeks we will do our first release to maven central (you can consu Read more...

Welcome to a new edition of Last Week (22/8/17 - 29/8/17) @ Activiti 7 / Dev Logs. Last week we made a huge effort to stabilize our builds and repositories configurations (activiti-build). A new repository was added to make sure that we control the project's dependencies and 3rd party dependencies i Read more...

What is DMN?Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is an industry standard managed by the Object Management Group (OMG) for modeling and executing decisions that are determined by business rules. What is the role of DMN?Based on the DMN specification, “the primary goal of DMN is to provide a common notat Read more...

Last week, the whole team spent a lot of time making sure that the code and projects are well organized under a whole new set of repositories. You can find all the new repositories under the github.com/Activiti organization. A blog post will follow next explaining the changes and additions to our pr Read more...

After a week of moving things around, we are reaching a point where we can share the new structure of our projects and repositories. The changes introduced highlight the different nature of each of these projects and how are they going to be used and consumed. The changes are now considered stable a Read more...