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1. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
salaboy21 Aug 30, 2011 8:43 AM (in response to alphabetagamma)yes.. it fits well.. you need to analyze if you will include more tasks in the future or another business processes.
You can use flex, spring and hibernate with jbpm5 as well..
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2. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
alphabetagamma Aug 31, 2011 7:12 AM (in response to salaboy21)Thanks for the reply Mauricio. I may not add more tasks. But there is a possibility to add another business process in similar lines. The major concern that we have is how do we control the same User not working on 'Submit for Review' and 'Review' tasks. This can be handled easily in Spring. I am worried if we introduce jBPM for this purpose, isn't it becomes an overhead to maintain?
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3. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
salaboy21 Aug 31, 2011 7:49 AM (in response to alphabetagamma)As any framework or platform it has a lot of advantages but it also has a learning curve. It is a trade of between funtionality and amout of time learning the technology. If you think that you application can grow you should definitely take a look at jBPM but if your application will remain small with one or two "business processes" you can just hack the idea of business process and hard code your activities. That's my humble opinion.
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4. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
yaziderman Sep 5, 2011 6:57 AM (in response to salaboy21)Dear Friends,
I have almost a similar case, i need to create customized work flow that would help a group of editors and reviewers to start editing and reviwing documents of different types, in a way that on any time reviewers are able to assign ressources (documents) to the workflow, the initiator is able to monitor the document status on anytime, and this Workflow should be integrated to Alfresco, is Jbpm suitable?
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5. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
salaboy21 Sep 5, 2011 7:40 AM (in response to yaziderman)Hi Yazid,
An old version of the jBPM project was integrated with alfresco already. If you want to only review documents that are stored inside alfresco, that can be easily done with jBPM5 and the new BPMN2 language, but there is no existing integration yet.
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6. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
yaziderman Sep 5, 2011 9:06 AM (in response to salaboy21)Thank you Mauricio,
But, does this mean that i have to use older versions to be able to integrate them! or it's not doable! i haven't got the idea about "reviewing documents that are stored inside Alfresco", what do you mean of this?!
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7. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
salaboy21 Sep 5, 2011 9:29 AM (in response to yaziderman)I think you get it wrong.
You can do the integration if you want, but it's not done out of the box right now.
Alfresco as far as I understand is a content management repository that allows you to store documents inside it in a JCR repository. If your processes are about reviewing the documents that you store inside the repository you can create your business processes that goes to the repository and work with them.
Cheers
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8. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
yaziderman Sep 6, 2011 3:43 AM (in response to salaboy21)Ok, then, as an idea of a workflow, it's doable and Jbpm is flexible enough! and i would use the known designer plugins of Eclipse to create the pure Jbpm workflow, right?!
Regarding the Integration, is it a matter of deplyment?! the output of the designer is a Jbpm project, in other words a folder with files inside, do you have any idea about the technique to integrate these files in Alfresco?! is there a standard way for integration?!
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9. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
salaboy21 Sep 7, 2011 12:06 AM (in response to yaziderman)the integration depends on the scenario that you are trying to support.
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10. Re: Is JBpm suitable to my business needs?
yaziderman Sep 7, 2011 3:42 AM (in response to salaboy21)Ok, more preceisly, my question is: By default we have 4 or more kinds of pre-built workflows in Alfresco, can we replace this list with our own workflows that we have already created using Jbpm and the graphic designer?! means i don't like to use the Jbpm interface!