from: http://servicemix.apache.org/docs/5.x/activiti/index.html
Introducing Activiti
Activiti is a BPMN 2.0 process-engine framework that implements the BPMN 2.0 specification.
It's able to perform BPMN 2.0 functions including deploy process definitions, start new process instances, execute user tasks ecc.ecc..
Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java.
Activiti Engine
This is the heart of the Activiti project. It's a Java process engine that runs BPMN 2 processes natively. It will have the following key properties:
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Allows user updates to be combined with process updates in a single transaction
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Runs on any Java environment like Spring, JTA, standalone with any form of transaction demarcation
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Easy to get up and running with the setup utility
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Built to support the cloud scalability from the ground up
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Very simple to add new custom activity types and complete dedicated process languages
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Transactional timers
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Asynchronous continuations
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Hidden event listeners for decoupling software technical details from business level diagram
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Ability to test process executions in isolation in a plain unit test
Goal of this guide
The goal of this guide is to look into the details for using Activiti inside ServiceMix:
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create a project
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write and debug a simple process
Examples
The Apache ServiceMix distributions also contain a Activiti example. You can find these example in the examples/activiti directory.
More information about Activiti
More information about Activiti itself, can be found on http://activiti.org/.
There's also book available about Activiti