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    Disclaimer: First, Almost material in this article I borrowed form all over the public web. Some of most borrowed source are (in order):

    Second, This article only provides a  step by step manually deployment of each jBPM-5.3.0.Final components. It was written by a jBPM beginner. For the official document please refer to: http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v5.3/userguide/

    Third, this article example is in Linux. Maybe I will add ant scripts (again, heavily extract from jbpm-install/build.xml) for faster deployment and more Windows friendlier.

    1. Overview of jBPM

    jBPM Components

    Download a copy of jbpm-5.3.0.Final-installer-full.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbpm/files/jBPM%205/jbpm-5.3.0.Final/) and extract it to a location, from now on we call it JBPM_INSTALL. JBPM_INSTALL contains all core jBPM components.

     

    Components
    File in JBPM_INSTALL/lib
    Description
    jbpm-runtimejbpm-5.3.0.Final-bin.zipjBPM Runtime, if you are willing to build a stand alone Java application you will need this.
    drools-guvnorguvnor-distribution-wars-5.4.0-20120516.warDrools-Guvnor provides process repository.
    designerdesigner-2.2.Final-jboss7.warJBPM2 process designer. It's integrated with drools-guvnor.
    form-builderjbpm-5.3.0.Final-form-builder.warForm builder. It's going to be integrated with the designer. http://blog.athico.com/2012/07/jbpm-form-builder-state-of-art.html
    gwt-console and gwt-console-serverjbpm-5.3.0.Final-gwt-console.zip
    human-taskjbpm-5.3.0.Final-human-task-war.zip

    Table 01: jBPM.5.3.0.Final components and their binary file

    jBPM - Internal Components Communication.png

    Figure 01: jBPM-Internal components communication

     

    The communication between component as described in Figure-01, this article use MySQL. But by default, jbpm-install with "ant start.demo" will run with H2 database. From this communication view we can separate each component deployment. Event on each application server.

    jBPM - Eclipse and Reporting Communication.png

    Figure 02: The communication with Eclipse IDE

    Separation deployment

    For a beginner, with all jBPM components are twisted together:

    • It's hard to tell which message of what components. When something go wrong, which one to focus, which one to just ignore.
    • Need a way to check each component is up and running.
    • Just a way to learn and experience with jBPM.

    Purely from this experience and conclusion, this article will provides a manual installation of each jBPM-5.3.0.Final component.

    2. Common bugs fix after jBPM-5.3.0.Final release

    Building from source-code

    As a beginner I occasionally meet this kind of error {userId parameter, no result, must be positive, hornetq remote ..}. Some are must apply the fix before you can go on further. The commits after jBPM-5.3.0.Final does fix the bug but also introduces incompatible with other jBPM.5.3.0.Final. So this part will describes how to checkout Original jBPM-5.3.0.Final release source code; find the Fixed patch and apply to your local branch.

     

    For more detailed git document, please refer to other document. This article only using related git commands.

    a. Configure your git username and email

    # For your local branche
    git config --global user.name "Your Name"
    git config --global user.email "your_email@addr.ess"
    

    b. Clone jbpm repository from github.com

    # We only need jbpm.git, because in version 5.3.0.Final all component on the same git repository.
    git clone https://github.com/droolsjbpm/jbpm.git
    
    # We have local git reposistory. We will call its directory path as jBPM_SOURCE
    cd jbpm/
    mvn clean install -U -Dfull -DskipTests
    

    Optional: in "mvn clean install -U -Dfull -DskipTests" above, We can add -nsu (no snapshot update) for faster build. Because we're only aware specific on 5.3.0.Final revision and its dependencies.

    mvn clean install -U -Dfull -DskipTests -nsu
    

    This command really takes a while, especially for the first time and your empty maven local repository.

    c. Working with local repository

    The jbpm is a typical maven parent project with multiple module. Two of theme {human-task; gwt-console} are parent project too. From now on, you can use your favorite IDE with JavaEE profile to work with this checked out repository, showing diff and applying patch. Otherwise you can using git command as following example:

    List all jBPM tags
    # From your jBPM_SOURCE, show tags
    git tag
    

    The output will be something like this:

    5.0-CR1
    5.0.0
    5.1.0.CR1
    5.1.0.Final
    5.1.0.M1
    5.1.1.Final
    5.1.2.Final
    5.2.0.Final
    5.2.1.Final
    5.2.2.Final
    5.3.0.CR1
    5.3.0.Final
    
    Switch to 5.3.0.Final revision tag.

    Chose your local branch name, for example: update.after.5.3.0.final

    git checkout 5.3.0.Final  -b update.after.5.3.0.final
    

    Result message

    Switched to a new branch 'update.after.5.3.0.final'
    
    View pre-history just before jBPM team released jBPM.5.3.0.Final
    git log
    

    Example output

    ***@***:~/Tutorial/jbpm$ git log
    commit d7640b9c0ba87d771862e8534cc607ca0f4d1aff
    Author: Toni Rikkola <toni@rikkola.net>
    Date:   Mon May 14 13:25:30 2012 +0300
    
        change to 5.4.0.Final version
    
    commit 88440fe1430170458981c2752192df2c64c83636
    Author: Maciej Swiderski <mswiders@redhat.com>
    Date:   Wed May 9 19:22:35 2012 +0200
    
        BZ820210 - Could not initialize stateful knowledge session: loader constraint violation when using HornetQ task service strategy
    
    commit 80f940e2e860ac640a75114ab2780f6c2b7a865c
    Author: salaboy <salaboy@gmail.com>
    Date:   Wed May 9 15:04:54 2012 +0100
    
        - mvel workaround
    
    ...
    

    Build your own jBPM.5.3.0.Final for the first time

    mvn clean install -U -Dfull -DskipTests -nsu
    

    Now you can working with your local git repository, update the 5.3.0.Final tag with the patch you need. All your commit will be stored on update.after.5.3.0.final branches.

    Apply bug fix

    Bug: Could not locate named parameter [userId]

    Full message

    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: org.hibernate.QueryParameterException: could not locate named parameter [userId]
    

    Community thread:

    https://community.jboss.org/message/738335#738335

    https://community.jboss.org/thread/200361

     

    Fix commit: 4a47527163854b233cdb9599f54c9320e945a372

    Bug: No result, or connection timeout

    Message

    java.lang.RuntimeException: Timeout : unable to retrieve results
    

    Treatment: With this particular deployment {separating components deployment, using MySQL} I haven't meet this error yet.

    Bug: Must be positive

    Full message:

    2011-07-18 18:46:35,546 [FATAL] Uncaught Exception:
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
    must be positive
        at Unknown.cKb(Unknown source:0)
    

    Fix: Not yet. (I think) this comes from GWT bug. GWT is the Google Web Toolkit that jBPM-Console are using. Just ignore it and continue with your work.

    Bug: HornetQ binding only to local address.

    There aren't any configuration for Human-Task-War to bind on particular address. And by default it only listen on local address so Gwt-Console-Server cannot connect to it. Our separating deployment needs Gwt-Console-Server to connect to Human-Task, so apply the change-set below:

    Bug track link: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPM-3720?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel

    Change set: https://source.jboss.org/changelog/jBPM?cs=e115680b023ce0747608625f0cd61665cd09df40

    3. Manual jBPM components deployment

    Environment

    Check your JDK installation

    # Check JAVA_HOME environment variable arcording to your operating system. In linux
    echo $JAVA_HOME
    
    # JDK Java version 1.6 or newer
    java -version
    

    Check apache maven

    Download and installation instruction: http://maven.apache.org/download.html

    # Check M2 and  M2_HOME environment variables acording to your operating system. In linux
    echo $M2
    echo $M2_HOME
    
    # Check Apache Maven installation
    mvn -version
    

    Check apache ant

    Download: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi and manual: http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

    # Check ANT_HOME environment variables acording to  your operating system. In linux
    echo $ANT_HOME
    
    # And ANT_OPTS if it's nessessary. For example proxy configuration
    echo $ANT_OPTS
    -Dhttp.proxyHost=192.168.193.12 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128
    
    # Check Apache Ant installation
    ant -version
    

    Deployment parameters

     

    Name
    Variables
    Example values
    Jbpm-installJBPM_INSTALL/opt/download/jbpm-install
    MySQL username/password and schema

    MySQL_JBPM

    MySQL_TASK

    jbpm,jbpmpassword and schema name is jbpm

    task,taskpassword and schema name is task

    MySQL server IP/PORTMySQL_IP:MySQL_PORT192.168.140.39:3306
    Group-01 components: {Drool-guvnor, Designer, Form-Builder}

    GUVNOR_JBOSS

    GUVNOR_IP

    GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT

    GUVNOR_MANAGEMENT_PORT

    /opt/guvnor_jboss

    192.168.140.39

    8080

    9999 and 9990

    Group-02: Human-task

    HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS

    HUMAN_TASK_IP

    HUMAN_TASK_HTTP_PORT

    HUMAN_TASK_MANAGEMENT_PORT

    HUMAN_TASK_PORT-OFFSET

    HORNETQ_PORT

    /opt/human_task_jboss

    192.168.140.39

    8180

    10099 and 10090

    port-offset="100"

    1234 (Don't use default value, because we want to know if this configuratio affect or not)

    Group-03: Gwt-Console and Gwt-Console-Server

    CONSOLE_JBOSS

    CONSOLE_IP

    CONSOLE_HTTP_PORT

    CONSOLE_MANAGEMENT_POR

    CONSOLE_PORT_OFFSET

    /opt/console_jboss

    192.168.140.39

    8280

    10199 and 10190

    port-offset="200"

    Table 02 - Deployment parameters

    The "example value column" in Table 02 are values from a real deployment with all jboss instances running  on the same machine. https://community.jboss.org/wiki/MultipleInstancesOfJBossAS7OnTheSameMachine (Approach#1)

    MySQL database deployment (just verify).

    Verify that you can connect and login to MySQL:

    # From server HUMAN_TASK_IP to MySQL_IP:MySQL_PORT
    mysql -h MySQL_IP -P MySQL_Port  -u MySQL_TASK -pMySQL_TASK_PASSWORD
    
    # From server JBPM_IP to MYSQL_IP:MySQL_PORT
    mysql -h MySQL_IP -P MySQL_Port  -u MySQL_JBPM -pMySQL_JBPM_PASSWORD
    
    # Note: -P (capitalized) for port; and -p (lowercase) for password. 
    # No space between -p and MySQL_TASK_PASSWORD. For example: 
    #   mysql -h 192.168.140.39 -P 3306 -u task -ptaskpassword
    #   mysql -h 192.168.140.39 -P 3306 -u jbpm -pjbpmpassword
    

    After this, We can just forget about firewall, network routing, MySQL permission issues incase our persistence not work. For MySQL related document http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connecting.html

    4. Drools guvnor, designer, and form-builder deployment (with verify)

    Login to server on GUVNOR_IP and place a copy of jbpm-install and start the installation:

    Step 4.1:Extract a clean copy of jboss-as-7.0.2.Final.zip to GUVNOR_JBOSS

    # Set our GUVNOR_JBOSS to this example path
    export GUVNOR_JBOSS=/opt/guvnor_jboss
    echo $GUVNOR_JBOSS
    
    # Go to JBPM_INSTALL directory
    cd /opt/download/
    unzip jbpm-5.3.0.Final-installer-full.zip
    cd /opt/download/jbpm-installer
    
    # Extract a clean copy of jboss application server. To move to /opt we need root permission.
    unzip lib/jboss-as-7.0.2.Final.zip 
    sudo mv jboss-as-7.0.2.Final $GUVNOR_JBOSS
    
    # Copy guvnor, designer, form-builder
    cp lib/guvnor-distribution-wars-5.4.0-20120516.war $GUVNOR_JBOSS/drools-guvnor.war
    cp lib/designer-2.2.Final-jboss7.war $GUVNOR_JBOSS/designer.war
    cp lib/jbpm-5.3.0.Final-form-builder.war $GUVNOR_JBOSS/jbpm-form-builder.war
    
    # And their configurations file
    cp conf/guvnor.preferences.properties $GUVNOR_JBOSS/preferences.properties
    cp auth/users.properties $GUVNOR_JBOSS/
    cp auth/roles.properties $GUVNOR_JBOSS/
    
    cd $GUVNOR_JBOSS
    

    Step 4.2: Jboss configuration.

    # Change GUVNOR_JBOSS/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml to bind to GUVNOR_IP. For example
    <interfaces>
         <interface name="management">
              <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:192.168.140.39}"/>
         </interface>
         <interface name="public">
              <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:192.168.140.39}"/>
         </interface>
    </interfaces>
    

    Step 4.3: drools-guvnor configuration

    a. Update GUVNOR_JBOSS/preferences.properties to our will be deployed designer and form-builder

    ...
    #Designer configuration. Change to GUVNOR_IP and GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT, in our example:
    designer.url=http://192.168.140.39:8080
    #Do not change this unless you know what are you doing
    designer.context=designer
    designer.profile=jbpm
    
    #FormBuilder configuration
    #Do not change this unless you know what are you doing. Change to GUVNOR_IP and GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT, in our example:
    formbuilder.url=http://192.168.140.39:8080
    formbuilder.context=jbpm-form-builder
    formbuilder.profile=guvnor
    

    b. Place a copy of GUVNOR_JBOSS/preferences.properties to drools-guvnor.war/WEB-INF/classes/preferences.properties

    # User your favorist archive manager.

    Using "Open with Archive Manager" in  Ubuntu Linux

    Step 4.4: Deploy and verify drools-guvnor component installation

    a. Deploy drools-guvnor

    # Set our GUVNOR_JBOSS to this example path
    export GUVNOR_JBOSS=/opt/guvnor_jboss
    cd $GUVNOR_JBOSS
    
    # Deploy drools-guvnor
    cp drools-guvnor.war standalone/deployments/
    
    # Verify drools-guvnor by start GUVNOR_JBOSS
    bin/standalone.sh
    

    b. Verify that we have the following message in the console

    ...
    11:55:46,779 INFO  [org.jboss.web] (MSC service thread 1-2) registering web context: /drools-guvnor
    11:55:46,844 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Deployed "drools-guvnor.war
    

    c. Verify that we can access the drools-guvnor

    Access the http://GUVNOR_IP:GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT/drools-guvnor (In our example is http://192.168.140.39:8080/drools-guvnor) with the browser from GUVNOR_IP and CONSOLE_IP

    Step 4.5: Deploy designer

    a. Apply the change for Designer as following article http://bpmgeek.com/blog/making-jbpm5-work-remote-host

    Lock for the section "Saving and reloading process in designer could cause failures" at the end of that post, we need to make following change to designer.war/profiles/jbpm.xml

    <externalloadurl protocol="http" host="GUVNOR_IP:GUVNOR_PORT" subdomain="drools-guvnor/org.drools.guvnor.Guvnor/oryxeditor" usr="admin" pwd="admin"/>
    

    In our example

    <externalloadurl protocol="http" host="192.168.140.39:8080" subdomain="drools-guvnor/org.drools.guvnor.Guvnor/oryxeditor" usr="admin" pwd="admin"/>
    

    b. Deploy designer

    Simple by copy to jboss deployment directory, or with our example in Linux

    # Set our GUVNOR_JBOSS to this example path
    export GUVNOR_JBOSS=/opt/guvnor_jboss
    cd $GUVNOR_JBOSS
    
    # Deploy designer
    cp designer.war standalone/deployments/
    

    c. Verify designer

    Start jboss and verify that we have something like this

    09:47:56,841 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Deployed "designer.war"
    09:47:56,841 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Deployed "drools-guvnor.war"
    

    Screenshot.png

    Figure 03: Verify designer installation

    User your browser to connect to http://GUVNOR_IP:GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT/drools-guvnor (or http://192.168.140.39:8080/drools-guvnor in our example), on Left side bar, select "Knowledge Base" \ "Packages" , then select "Create New" \ "New BPMN2 Process" as Figure 02 above, note that if you can create/edit and save your process.

    Step 4.6: Deploy form-builder

    a. Add users/roles configuration to GUVNOR_JBOSS

    # Set our GUVNOR_JBOSS to this example path
    export GUVNOR_JBOSS=/opt/guvnor_jboss
    cd $GUVNOR_JBOSS
    
    cp users.properties standalone/configuration/
    cp roles.properties standalone/configuration/
    

    b. Add security domain for jbpm-form-builder in file standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:security:1.0">
       <security-domains>
    ..
          <security-domain name="jbpm-form-builder" cache-type="default">
                  <authentication>
                      <login-module code="UsersRoles" flag="required">
                          <module-option name="usersProperties" value="${jboss.server.config.dir}/users.properties"/>
                          <module-option name="rolesProperties" value="${jboss.server.config.dir}/roles.properties"/>
                      </login-module>
                  </authentication>
          </security-domain>
    ..
       </security-domains>
    </subsystem>
    

    c. Add users/roles to jbpm-form-builder.war/WEB-INF/classes/

    Using your current Archive Manager to add users.properties and roles.properties to jbpm-form-builder.war/WEB-INF/classes/

    d. Make form-builder work with remote guvnor repository, like we did with the Designer

    Configure using the Spring configuration files. Change jbpm-form-builder.war/WEB/INF/springComponents.xml to GUVNOR_IP:GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT

    <!-- Guvnor configuration -->
    <bean id="guvnorUrl" class="java.lang.String">
       <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="http://GUVNOR_IP:GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT/drools-guvnor"/>
    </bean>
    

    In our example

    <!-- Guvnor configuration -->
    <bean id="guvnorUrl" class="java.lang.String">
       <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="http://192.168.140.39:8080/drools-guvnor"/>
    </bean>
    

    d. Deploy form-builder and verify like we already did with designer

    cp jbpm-form-builder.war standalone/deployments/
    
    # Start GUVNOR_JBOSS
    bin/standalone.sh
    

    e. Verify that you have

    • Verify in your GUVNOR_JBOSS/standalone/logs/server.log
    10:36:52,907 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.controller] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) Deployed "drools-guvnor.war"
    

    verify-form-builder.png

    Figure 04: Verify form-builder and guvnor integration

    5. Task-Service or Human Task deployment (with verify).

    Login to server on HUMAN_TASK_IP and place a copy of jbpm-install and start the installation:

    Step 5.1:Extract a clean copy of jboss-as-7.0.2.Final.zip to HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS

    # Set our HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS to this example path
    export HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS=/opt/human_task_jboss
    echo $HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS
    
    # Go to JBPM_INSTALL directory
    cd /opt/download/
    unzip jbpm-5.3.0.Final-installer-full.zip
    cd /opt/download/jbpm-installer
    
    # Extract a clean copy of jboss application server. To move to /opt we need root permission.
    unzip lib/jboss-as-7.0.2.Final.zip 
    sudo mv jboss-as-7.0.2.Final $HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS
    
    # And jbpm transactin manager library
    cp jbpm-tm.jar $HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS/
    
    # Task persistence.xml
    cp task-service/resources/war/persistence.xml $HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS/
    
    # MySQL module configuration
    cp db/driver_jar_module.xml $HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS/module.xml
    
    cd $HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS
    

    Step 5.2: Copy your custom build human-task

    From JBPM_SOURCE/jbpm-human-task/jbpm-human-task-war/target

    To $HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS/jbpm-human-task-war.war

    Step 5.3: Jboss standalone.xml configuration

    Change HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml as following

    a. Remove pojo and jpa modules

    Pojo extension
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.osgi"/>
    <!-- Remove this line extension module="org.jboss.as.pojo"/-->
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.remoting"/>
    
    And pojo domain
    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:naming:1.0" />
    <!--subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:pojo:1.0" /-->
    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:osgi:1.0" activation="lazy">
    
    Jpa extention
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.jmx"/>
    <!--extension module="org.jboss.as.jpa"/-->
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.logging"/>
    
    And jpa domain
    <!--subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:jpa:1.0">
      <jpa default-datasource=""/>
    </subsystem-->
    

    b. Change port for management interface (HUMAN_TASK_MANAGEMENT_PORTs)

    <management-interfaces>

        <native-interface interface="management" port="10099" />

        <http-interface interface="management" port="10090"/>

    </management-interfaces>

    c. Add datasource for task-service

    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:datasources:1.0">

        <datasources>

            <datasource jndi-name="java:jboss/datasources/taskDS" pool-name="MysqlTaskDSPool" enabled="true" jta="true" use-java-context="true" use-ccm="true">

                <connection-url>

                    jdbc:mysql://192.168.140.39:3306/task

                </connection-url>

                <driver>

                    mysql

                </driver>

                <pool>

                    <prefill>

                        false

                    </prefill>

                    <use-strict-min>

                        false

                    </use-strict-min>

                    <flush-strategy>

                        FailingConnectionOnly

                    </flush-strategy>

                </pool>

                <security>

                    <user-name>

                        task

                    </user-name>

                    <password>

                        taskpassword

                    </password>

                </security>

            </datasource>

            <drivers>

                <driver name="mysql" module="com.mysql">

                    <xa-datasource-class>

                        com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource

                    </xa-datasource-class>

                </driver>

            </drivers>

        </datasources>

    </subsystem>

    d. Bind to HUMAN_TASK_IP

    In our example

    <interfaces>
         <interface name="management">
              <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:192.168.140.39}"/>
         </interface>
         <interface name="public">
              <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:192.168.140.39}"/>
         </interface>
    </interfaces>
    

    e. Set offset-port

    For our example to running on the same server as in https://community.jboss.org/wiki/MultipleInstancesOfJBossAS7OnTheSameMachine (Approach#1)

    <socket-binding-group name="standard-sockets" default-interface="public" port-offset="100">
    

    Step 5.4: MySQL driver for jboss

    a. Create MySQL module directory

    mkdir modules/com/mysql
    mkdir modules/com/mysql/main
    

    b.Copy module declaration file

    cp module.xml modules/com/mysql/main/
    

    c. Download and install mysql driver to jBoss

    wget https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/service/local/repositories/central/content/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.18/mysql-connector-java-5.1.18.jar
    cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.18.jar modules/com/mysql/main/mysql-connector-java.jar
    

    d. Start your HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS now

    bin/standalone.sh
    

    To verify your configuration

    human_task_jboss.pngFigure 05: Veriry DataSource configuration of HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS

    Step 5.5: jbpm-human-task-war.war configuration

    a. In your jbpm-human-task-war.war file, make following modification with your current archive manager

    Remove WEB-INF/lib/netty-3.2.0.Final.jar

    Add jbpm-tm.jar to WEB-INF/lib/

    b. Configure your WEB-INF/web.xml as following

    Make HornetQ as active transport
    <!-- active configuration on of hornetq|mina|jms (defauls to hornetq) -->
    <init-param>
       <param-name>active.config</param-name>
       <param-value>hornetq</param-value>
    </init-param>
    
    Set HornetQ binding address and port (Remember our fix at the end of part 2) to HUMAN_TASK_IP and HORNETQ_PORT
    <!-- HornetQ configuration parameters -->
    <init-param>
       <param-name>hornetq.host</param-name>
       <param-value>192.168.140.39</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
       <param-name>hornetq.port</param-name>
       <param-value>1234</param-value>
    </init-param>
    
    Optional: Task service persistence unit name, we will use default value so you can keep it blank
    <!-- Task Service configuration independent of transport -->
    <init-param>
       <param-name>task.persistence.unit</param-name>
       <param-value>org.jbpm.task</param-value>
    </init-param>
    
    User demo user/group call-back implementation
    <!-- use org.jbpm.task.service.DefaultUserGroupCallbackImpl to configure sample user group callback for demo purpose-->
    <init-param>
       <param-name>user.group.callback.class</param-name>
       <param-value>org.jbpm.task.service.DefaultUserGroupCallbackImpl</param-value>
    </init-param>
    
    Using demo user and group provider
    <!-- use classpath:/org/jbpm/task/servlet/SampleUsers.mvel to configure sample users for demo purpose-->
    <!-- DefaultUsers.mvel is used to insert Administrator as it is required for task server to operate -->  
    <init-param>
      <param-name>load.users</param-name>
      <param-value>classpath:/org/jbpm/task/servlet/SampleUsers.mvel</param-value>
    </init-param>
    
    <!-- use classpath:/org/jbpm/task/servlet/SampleGroups.mvel to configure sample users for demo purpose-->
    <init-param>
      <param-name>load.groups</param-name>
      <param-value>classpath:/org/jbpm/task/servlet/SampleGroups.mvel</param-value>
    </init-param>
    

    Look at attachement for the file jbpm_human_task_web.xml, a full copy of our example jbpm-human-task-war/WEB-INF/web.xml

    c. Configure persistence.xml

    Change jbpmDS to taskDS
    <non-jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/taskDS</non-jta-data-source>
    
    Modify properties to your MySQL_IP and MySQL_PORT
    <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://MySQL_IP:MySQL_PORT/task" />
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="task"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="taskpassword"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.autocommit" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3"/>
        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create" />
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
    </properties>
    

    In our example:

    <properties>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://192.168.140.39:3306/task" />
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="task"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="taskpassword"/>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.autocommit" value="false" />
        <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3"/>
        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create" />
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
    </properties>
    

    Look at attachment for the file jbpm_human_task_persistence.xml, a full copy of our example jbpm-human-task-war/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml

    d. Update jpbm-human-task-war.war/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml

    With the modified persistence.xml in the Step c above.

    e. Deploy form-builder and verify like we already did with designer

    cp jbpm-human-task-war.war standalone/deployments/

     

    # Start HUMAN_TASK_JBOSS again

    bin/standalone.sh

    e. Verify Human-Task

    Verify that you have message like this
    18:38:58,305 INFO  [stdout] (MSC service thread 1-2) HornetQ Task service started correctly (update01) !
    18:38:58,305 INFO  [stdout] (MSC service thread 1-2) HornetQ Task service running (host 192.168.140.39 port 1234)...
    18:38:58,318 INFO  [stdout] (MSC service thread 1-2) -----------Version 5.3.0.Final_Update01-------------
    18:38:58,318 INFO  [stdout] (MSC service thread 1-2) Task service startup completed successfully (update01) !
    

    I did make a change to Task Service that include "-----------Version 5.3.0.Final_Update01-------------" make sure that our updated version are running.

    And your check if you can telnet to HUMAN_TASK_IP:HORNETQ_PORT from CONSOLE_IP

    verify_human_task_jboss.pngFigure 06: Verify human-task does listen on HORNETQ_PORT and "Localhost only binding" issues is fixed.

    telnet 192.168.140.39 1234
    

    6. jBPM-Console deployment (with verify).

    Login to server on CONSOLE_IP and place a copy of jbpm-install and start the installation:

    Step 6.1:Extract a clean copy of jboss-as-7.0.2.Final.zip to CONSOLE_JBOSS

    # Set our CONSOLE_JBOSS to this example path
    export CONSOLE_JBOSS=/opt/console_jboss
    echo $CONSOLE_JBOSS
    
    # Go to JBPM_INSTALL directory
    cd /opt/download/
    unzip jbpm-5.3.0.Final-installer-full.zip
    cd /opt/download/jbpm-installer
    
    # Extract a clean copy of jboss application server. To move to /opt we need root permission.
    unzip lib/jboss-as-7.0.2.Final.zip
    sudo mv jboss-as-7.0.2.Final $CONSOLE_JBOSS
    
    # And jbpm transactin manager library
    cp jbpm-tm.jar $CONSOLE_JBOSS/
    
    # Demo user/role
    cp auth/users.properties $CONSOLE_JBOSS/
    cp auth/roles.properties $CONSOLE_JBOSS/
    
    # jBpm persistence.xml
    cp db/persistence.xml $CONSOLE_JBOSS/
    cp db/ProcessInstanceInfo.hbm.xml $CONSOLE_JBOSS/
    
    # MySQL module configuration
    cp db/driver_jar_module.xml $CONSOLE_JBOSS/module.xml
    cd $CONSOLE_JBOSS
    
    # Example Evaluation process
    cp -a sample $CONSOLE_JBOSS/
    

    Step 6.2 Add users/roles configuration to CONSOLE_JBOSS

    cp users.properties standalone/configuration/

    cp roles.properties standalone/configuration/

    Step 6.3: Copy your custom build jbpm-console

    From JBPM_SOURCE/jbpm-gwt/jbpm-gwt-console/target/jbpm-gwt-console-5.3.0.Final.war

    To $CONSOLE_JBOSS/jbpm-gwt-console.war

     

    And from JBPM_SOURCE/jbpm-gwt/jbpm-gwt-console-server/target/jbpm-gwt-console-server-5.3.0.Final.war

    To $CONSOLE_JBOSS/jbpm-gwt-console-server.war

    Step 6.4: Jboss standalone.xml configuration

    Change CONSOLE_JBOSS/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml as following

    a. Remove pojo and jpa modules

    Pojo extension
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.osgi"/>
    <!-- Remove this line extension module="org.jboss.as.pojo"/-->
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.remoting"/>
    
    And pojo domain
    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:naming:1.0" />
    <!--subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:pojo:1.0" /-->
    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:osgi:1.0" activation="lazy">
    
    Jpa extention
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.jmx"/>
    <!--extension module="org.jboss.as.jpa"/-->
    <extension module="org.jboss.as.logging"/>
    
    And jpa domain
    <!--subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:jpa:1.0">
      <jpa default-datasource=""/>
    </subsystem-->
    

    b. Change port for management interface (CONSOLE_MANAGEMENT_PORT)

    <management-interfaces>
        <native-interface interface="management" port="10199" />
        <http-interface interface="management" port="10190"/>
    </management-interfaces>
    

    c. Add datasource

    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:datasources:1.0">
        <datasources>
            <datasource jndi-name="java:jboss/datasources/jbpmDS" pool-name="MysqlJbpmDSPool" enabled="true" jta="true" use-java-context="true" use-ccm="true">
                <connection-url>
                    jdbc:mysql://192.168.140.39:3306/jbpm
                </connection-url>
                <driver>
                    mysql
                </driver>
                <pool>
                    <prefill>
                        false
                    </prefill>
                    <use-strict-min>
                        false
                    </use-strict-min>
                    <flush-strategy>
                        FailingConnectionOnly
                    </flush-strategy>
                </pool>
                <security>
                    <user-name>
                        jbpm
                    </user-name>
                    <password>
                        jbpmpassword
                    </password>
                </security>
            </datasource>
            <drivers>
                <driver name="mysql" module="com.mysql">
                    <xa-datasource-class>
                        com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource
                    </xa-datasource-class>
                </driver>
            </drivers>
        </datasources>
    </subsystem>
    

    d. Add security domain for jbpm-console

    <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:security:1.0">
       <security-domains>
    ..
          <security-domain name="jbpm-console" cache-type="default">
                  <authentication>
                      <login-module code="UsersRoles" flag="required">
                          <module-option name="usersProperties" value="${jboss.server.config.dir}/users.properties"/>
                          <module-option name="rolesProperties" value="${jboss.server.config.dir}/roles.properties"/>
                      </login-module>
                  </authentication>
          </security-domain>
    ..
       </security-domains>
    </subsystem>
    

    e. Bind to CONSOLE_IP. For example

    <interfaces>
         <interface name="management">
              <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:192.168.140.39}"/>
         </interface>
         <interface name="public">
              <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:192.168.140.39}"/>
         </interface>
    </interfaces>
    

    f. Set offset-port

    For our example to running on the same server as in https://community.jboss.org/wiki/MultipleInstancesOfJBossAS7OnTheSameMachine (Approach#1)

    <socket-binding-group name="standard-sockets" default-interface="public" port-offset="200">
    

    Step 6.5: MySQL driver for jboss (identical with Step 5.4)

    a. Create MySQL module directory

    mkdir modules/com/mysql
    mkdir modules/com/mysql/main
    

    b.Copy module declaration file

    cp module.xml modules/com/mysql/main/
    

    c. Download and install mysql driver to jBoss

    wget https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/service/local/repositories/central/content/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.18/mysql-connector-java-5.1.18.jar
    cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.18.jar modules/com/mysql/main/mysql-connector-java.jar
    

    d. Start your CONSOLE_JBOSS now

    bin/standalone.sh
    

    To verify your configuration

    Step 6.6: Gwt-console-server.war configuration

    a. Add users/roles to gwt-console-server.war/WEB-INF/classes/

    Using your current Archive Manager to add users.properties and roles.properties to gwt-console-server.war/WEB-INF/classes/

    b. Configure persistence.xml

    Add mapping for ProcessInstanceInfo.hbm.xml
    <mapping-file>META-INF/ProcessInstanceInfo.hbm.xml</mapping-file>
    
    Change to MySQL database
    <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/>
    
    Mark Hibernate to show_sql
    <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
    
    Your persistence.xml will look something like this
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
    <persistence version="1.0"
                 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
                                     http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd
                                     http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm 
                                     http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm_1_0.xsd"
                 xmlns:orm="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm"
                 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">
    
        <persistence-unit name="org.jbpm.persistence.jpa" transaction-type="JTA">
            <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
            <jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/jbpmDS</jta-data-source>       
            <mapping-file>META-INF/JBPMorm.xml</mapping-file>
            <mapping-file>META-INF/ProcessInstanceInfo.hbm.xml</mapping-file>
    
            <class>org.jbpm.persistence.processinstance.ProcessInstanceInfo</class>
            <class>org.drools.persistence.info.SessionInfo</class>
            <class>org.drools.persistence.info.WorkItemInfo</class>
            <class>org.jbpm.process.audit.ProcessInstanceLog</class>
            <class>org.jbpm.process.audit.NodeInstanceLog</class>
            <class>org.jbpm.process.audit.VariableInstanceLog</class>
    
            <properties>
                <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/>
                <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3"/>
                <!-- hbm2ddl.auto MUST BE update! The console will otherwise overwrite the schema with each new thread -->
                <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />
                <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
    
                <!-- for AS7 -->
                <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.jbpm.integration.console.JBPMTransactionManager" />
                <!-- for AS5 -->
                <!-- <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup" /> -->
            </properties>        
        </persistence-unit>
    
    </persistence>
    

    c. Add updated persistence.xml and ProcessInstanceInfo.hbm.xml to gwt-consoler-server.war

    Using your current Archive Manager to add persistence.xml and ProcessInstanceInfo.hbm.xml to gwt-console-server.war/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/

    d. Configure jbpm-console to binding on CONSOLE_IP and connect to remote GUVNOR_IP

    As following article http://bpmgeek.com/blog/making-jbpm5-work-remote-host on Section# "A 404 error when you try and start a process". We need to make following changes to jbpm.console.properties file inside jbpm-gwt-core-5.1.0.Final.jar, that againt inside jbpm-gwt-console-server.war/WEB-INF/lib/ forlder

    jbpm.console.server.host=CONSOLE_IP
    jbpm.console.server.port=CONSOLE_HTTP_PORT
    ...
    #configuration properties for task service
    #jbpm.console.task.service.strategy=Mina|HornetQ|JMS|Local default to Mina
    jbpm.console.task.service.strategy=HornetQ
    jbpm.console.task.service.host=HUMAN_TASK_IP
    jbpm.console.task.service.port=HORNETQ_PORT
    jbpm.console.directory=CONSOLE_JBOSS/sample/evaluation/src/main/resources
    
    guvnor.protocol=http
    guvnor.host=GUVNOR_IP:GUVNOR_HTTP_PORT
    guvnor.subdomain=drools-guvnor
    ...
    

    In our example

    jbpm.console.server.host=192.168.140.39
    jbpm.console.server.port=8280
    jbpm.console.server.context=gwt-console-server
    
    #configuration properties for task service
    #jbpm.console.task.service.strategy=Mina|HornetQ|JMS|Local default to Mina
    jbpm.console.task.service.strategy=HornetQ
    jbpm.console.task.service.host=192.168.140.39
    jbpm.console.task.service.port=1234
    jbpm.console.directory=/opt/console_jboss/sample/evaluation/src/main/resources
    
    guvnor.protocol=http
    guvnor.host=192.168.140.39:8180
    guvnor.subdomain=drools-guvnor
    ...
    

    Step 6.7: Deployment

    cp jbpm-gwt-console-server.war standalone/deployments/
    cp jbpm-gwt-console.war standalone/deployments/
    

    And verify that

    7. What's next?

    Upgrading to the Jboss-as-7.1.1.Final works

    Following the same above steps with jboss-as-7.1.1.Final works. This make "interface" and "port-offset" configuration in standalone.xml more cleaner. In our current example setup, I just copy over {modified war files, users.properties, roles.properties, database module}  to new JBoss and make the change in standalone.xml files.

     

    This upgrading has a "Vfs" issue, but we can just ignore it. More here:

    Using the Designer-2.3.0.Final works

    Nothing to say about this upgrades.

    Jbpm-console source-code is a treasure for studying jBPM integration.

    Just like jbpm-install/build.xml for study jBPM components in one way or another.