Big changes are coming into the Activiti 7 project. Last week (7/8/17 - 13/8/17) we started making some big organizational changes in how we structure our projects and our repositories. We have created 3 new repositories: activiti-examples, activiti-compatibility and activiti-spring-boot-starters. D Read more...

Hi everyone, welcome to the Activity 7 Dev Logs #1 (3/07/17-9/07/17).Last week we published the initial short term roadmap for Activiti 7 and we started executing according that plan. We got a lot of great feedback and some external community contributors are already working with us. This is a short Read more...

Hi everyone, welcome to a new edition of the Activiti 7 Dev Logs #2 (10/07/17-16/07/17).We keep crunching code based on our short term roadmap for Activiti 7. We started to see some light at the end of the tunnel, and there will be more blog posts about the new HAL API draft and the IDM integration Read more...

Hi everyone, here another Dev Log from the Activiti 7.x (17/7/17 - 23/7/17) team. We are making a lot of progress on creating the new services decoupled and independent. We are reaching a point where we can start writing examples that demonstrate clear advantages in comparison with the traditional ( Read more...

We are closing our 4th week (24/7/17 – 30/7/17) of work on the new Activiti 7.x project and we are moving fast to make sure that we provide a set of robust services that are ready to be integrated into your existing micro services architecture. We have chosen a technology stack that relies on standa Read more...

Last week (31/7/17 - 6/8/17) on the Activiti 7 project we spend a lot of time working on clean ups and infrastructure as well as refining and adding new Activiti Services (Gateway and Registry). We are enabling all our services to work with Docker so they can be scaled independently. We hope to star Read more...

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Alfresco Process Services 1.6.4 has been released and is available now. This release contains some important bug fixes. Here are the notable highlightsecurityPossibility to encrypt sensitive properties (e.g. db user password, ldap user password, Read more...

This blog post is part of another blog post that I wrote around the text sentiment analysis topic. This blog will focus on the process side and how to Move a file automatically in a folder using the metadata info. If you want more details about the sentiment analysis you can read this article.For wh Read more...

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Alfresco Process Services 1.6.3 has been released and is available now. This release contains a few important bug fixes as well as a couple of improvements. Here are the notable highlights:Kerberos SSO supportOrganizations using Kerberos AD infras Read more...

If you were looking at the Activiti/Activiti repository, you might have noticed that we are restructuring the project. Activiti is taking a new direction towards microservices architectures and we are planning to make big design upgrades.This new direction will give users the flexibility to open up Read more...

Activiti 6 is here and it brings a number of significant updates to its core functionality. The main highlights areluggable PersistencePreviously, the persistence logic was spread across different parts of the code. This made it hard to maintain and impossible to customise. Now, persistence logic Read more...

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Apache ActiveMQ ™ are two popular messaging systems/platforms out there. Alfresco Process Services powered by Activiti (APS) can be integrated with these systems in a few different ways. Some of the available options are: Custom extension projects built using Sp Read more...

This is a continuation of my previous blog post about data models Business Data Integration made easy with Data Models. In this example I'll be showing the integration of Alfresco Process Services powered by Activiti (APS) with Amazon DynamoDB using Data Models. Steps required to set up this example Read more...

“Stencils” provide a very powerful set of capabilities to Alfresco Process Services powered by Activiti (APS) and can be used within the BPMN 2.0 Editor, the Step Editor and the Forms Editor.  Within the context of Forms, Stencils provide the facilities to develop custom form field types. The idea o Read more...

Activiti 6.0 Final release is around the corner, and I’m super excited of being part of this release because it is the first step towards a bright future. I’m looking forward to working with the community to shape up the next releases of the project to make sure that we push BPM to the next level.On Read more...

My name is Doug Johnson. I’m responsible for the BPM strategy at Alfresco working with the Activiti project and separately Alfresco’s commercial offerings. As a 20-year industry veteran with 17-years of BPM-specific experience, I’ve seen a lot of new business and solution requirements challenge BPM Read more...

Business Process Management (BPM) best practices often suggests that the BPM solution not be the system of record. In particular, the business data required for the Digital Business Solution should exist in other data stores outside of the persistence store being used by the BPM engine itself. Busin Read more...

This blog is a short explanation of a voice enabled business process demo which I built using Alfresco Process Services powered by Activiti and Amazon Alexa. The solution also has integration with a variety of technologies such as Alfresco Content Services, Email, Twilio, Decooda etc. A user can int Read more...

Table of Contents                    Source CodePrerequisitesRunning Alfresco and Activiti alongside each otherCreate a site in Alfresco for Activiti contentConfigure Alfresco Repository LocationGive Activiti Users Access to Alfresco RepositoryUploading files to AlfrescoUsing an out-of-the-box conte Read more...

Table of Contents                    IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesCreate a Custom Form StencilImplementing a Month Form FieldCreating the Form Field in the Custom StencilTrying out the Month FieldDebugging an Angular ControllerImplementing a Dynamic Form FieldWhat the end result look likePrer Read more...

Table of Contents                   IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesImplementing a Custom REST API Implementing the REST ControllerMaking the REST endpoint part of Public APIInjecting Spring Beans into the REST ControllerCalling a REST endpoint from a ProcessIntroductionThe Activiti Enterprise a Read more...

Table of Contents                    Source CodePrerequisitesImplementing a process that integrates with an external databaseOverviewTell Activiti about the external databaseDownload and Install the JDBC driver Creating Custom Data Models and Logical EntitiesCreating the Data Model and Database Enti Read more...

Table of Contents                   IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesImplementing Java backed Listeners Coding the Java classes Implementing the Execution ListenerImplementing the Task ListenerTesting the ListenersListeners and Thread SafetyUsing Process Variables in a Listener Using Process Vari Read more...

Table of Contents                   IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesImplementing a Hello World Spring Bean Method Coding the Spring Bean classTesting the methodUsing Process Variables in the Spring Bean MethodReturning data from the Spring Bean MethodUsing Field Injection in the Spring Bean Meth Read more...

Table of Contents                    IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesImplementing a Hello World Spring Bean Java Delegate Coding the Java classTesting the Spring Bean Java DelegateSpring Bean Java Delegates and Thread SafetyUsing Process Variables in the Spring Bean Java DelegateUsing Field Inje Read more...

Table of Contents                    IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesImplementing a Hello World Java Delegate Coding the Java classTesting the Java DelegateJava Delegates and Thread SafetyUsing Process Variables in the Java Delegate How many variables are really fetched with getVariable?Using Fi Read more...

Table of Contents                    IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesJava Development Kit (JDK)Apache MavenCreating the Activiti Extension ProjectBuilding the Activiti Extension ProjectInstalling the Activiti Extension JAR IntroductionMost customizations developed for Alfresco Activiti will requ Read more...

Table of ContentsIntroductionPrerequisitesInstall and Run Activiti EnterpriseAdd Apache Camel to Activiti EnterpriseAdd the Activiti Camel Lib to Activiti EnterpriseImplementing a process with a Camel taskDefine the Activiti Process ModelCreate an Activiti Extension Project with the Camel config and Read more...

We often create little demos of Alfresco Activiti to introduce people to the range of capabilities available. I thought it would be useful to list a few links to videos of these demos: A mix of demosA client on-boarding demo Read more...

A new release of Alfresco Activiti always brings with it a bundle of shiny new features and enhancements to old favorites. The team have worked hard to make this the kind of release you expect from us, so what I’ve highlighted below is really just a hint of what delights you will find. Activiti Engi Read more...