Camunda BPM 7.3.0-alpha3 released
A new alpha release of our open source BPM and Workflow platform is available for download. The highlights of this release are: Process Engine Java and Rest Api Process-level authorizations: define...
View ArticleCamunda + Liferay Community Meeting
Yesterday evening we met at our Partner Ancud IT in Nurremberg (Germany). Ancud presented their experiences using Portals (namely the Open Source Portal Liferay) in combination with Process Engines...
View ArticleLong running processes and service authentication - SAML tokens to the rescue?
When executing long running business processes which include service invocations you often have to solve a problem: What credentials should you use when calling the service? Let's have a look at a...
View ArticleCamunda BPM 7.3.0 Final Released
I’m pleased to announce the availability of Camunda 7.3.0 Final. The release focuses on improving Camunda BPM for large production deployments. The highlights are: Process instance repair and...
View ArticleBuild your own camunda task explorer with CDI and JSF
There's a lot of interest in how to write a task list with CDI and JSF, and not a lot of up-to-date examples available. Until now! - In this blog post I'm going to show you how you can build your own...
View ArticleWhy we Re-Implemented BPMN Multi-Instance Support in 7.3
Have you ever experienced bugs with multi-instance activities? You may choose from any of these: CAM-986, CAM-1731, CAM-2075, CAM-2338, CAM-2787, CAM-2897, CAM-3851, CAM-3925. From the engine's early...
View ArticleWould you use Apache Cassandra for Camunda persistence?
I am currently planning a hack session with people who are interested in using Apache Cassandra as database for Camunda Process engine. Their main motivation for supporting us is that their whole...
View ArticleSpring Boot Support in Camunda - new Community Extension
I am very, very excited about this: the Camunda community now actively collaborates around providing support for Spring Boot. This is extremely cool and allows users to deploy Camunda process engine...
View ArticleDeploy a Camunda BPM Docker Image with Amazon Web Services
No one could argue that deploying the Camunda BPM platform to a web server is unmatched in its adrenaline-inducing excitement, but we should spare a thought for those people whose aversion to scripts...
View ArticleHow to clean up/purge the camunda history tables
We get this question very often from customers: How can we get rid of old history data that we don't need anymore? First it's important to ask: "What do you mean by 'old data'?". This is completely...
View ArticleSetting up a Development Environment for Camunda HTML Forms
Are you developing HTML forms for Camunda Tasklist? Are you re-packaging your application with maven and re-deploying it to Tomcat or Wildfly for each HMTL form change? Are you annoyed by this? :)...
View ArticleCamunda BPM 7.4.0 Alpha 1 Released
Today we release Camunda BPM 7.4.0-Alpha1. This is the first alpha release previewing the upcoming 7.4.0 Release. The highlights of this release are: DMN (Decision Model and Notation): DMN Engine and...
View ArticleJob Prioritization for Asynchronous Processing at Scale
Camunda users process heavy workloads with the process engine. Often this includes asynchronous processing which is handled using the job executor component. The amount of jobs that need to be...
View ArticleStart and Complete a process with the REST API
If you’ve already downloaded the Camunda BPM platform you’ve already got our invoice example running locally. So I’m going to start with how you might run through that process using our REST API. I’m...
View ArticleRendering BPMN and highlight current task using bpmn.io
With bpmn.io and the Camunda REST API it is really simple to develop a small HTML page that displays a process instance grafically and highlights some activities. In our "JSF Simple Tasklist" snippet...
View ArticleFirst Version of dmn.io Released
Today we release the first version of dmn.io, our new DMN modeling toolkit. dmn.io allows you to view and model decisions with the DMN 1.0 standard directly on the web. The dmn.io library provides a...
View ArticleBringing Together: Transactions, Cancel Events and Compensation Tasks
If you've ever been lucky enough to enjoy Camunda's BPMN training then you probably have fond memories of the slide featuring Compensation tasks and Cancel events. It happens to be the very last slide...
View ArticleMigrate Process Versions
My colleague Ingo just finished a new cockpit plugin allowing to easily migrate a running process instance to a new version of the process definition: You can find the sources of the plugin on GitHub:...
View ArticleHow to repeat a task in CMMN?
We have some good news: We implemented the repetition rule in our CMMN engine. This gives the users the ability to repeat a task under certain conditions. We invite you to try it out! For testing...
View ArticleProcess Test Coverage Report
As part of the Hack Days this year my colleague Falko migrated an existing tool we (Camunda Consulting) used with success in a lot of projects to bpmn.io: The Process Test Coverage Report Generator. It...
View ArticleContext Help in Camunda using SOLR Search Server
Last week we had our anual hack days - that means 48 hours of producing something aswesome. Together with Falko, Ingo and Thorben we build a context help within the Camunda BPM Workbench protoype. This...
View ArticleBPMN Quest - Camunda as a Game Engine!
This year at the annual Camunda hackdays one team bravely took it upon themselves to balance out the innovative and useful projects with something fun and frivolous. For two days somewhere in...
View ArticleScaling Camunda BPM in a Cluster: Job Executors and Coordination
Throughout development of Camunda 7.4, one of our focus points is job executor features and improvements. The job executor is the process engine's component to perform deferred actions, such as...
View ArticleImpressions from Camunda Community Day 2015
Or in other words: Our most awesome community day yet! Last week our annual Camunda Community Day took place. I always enjoy that day very much because it gives me the opportunity to get in touch with...
View ArticleCamunda 7.4.0-Alpha2 released
Today we release Camunda BPM 7.4.0-Alpha2. This is the second alpha release previewing the upcoming 7.4.0 Release. The highlights of this release are: Improved DMN Engine Hit Policies Data Types New...
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