Activiti Developer Quickstart

This is a quick start example of Activiti Business Process Management (BPM) engine shown here.

This is an example which creates Activiti Process Engine using a memory-based h2 embedded database. It loads a simple onboarding.bpmn20.xml BPMN model and deploys it to the Activiti Process Engine.

The process prompts for user name and experience. If the years of experience is above 3, a task for a personalized onboarding welcome message is issued. The task prompts the user to manually enter data into a faux backend system. If the years of experience is 3 years or below, it automatically integrates data with a faux backend system.

Build

Execute the following command from the parent directory to build the project:

mvn clean install

Run

To run the application from the terminal,

java -jar target/activiti-developer-quickstart-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-full.jar 

You should notice the application starting:

ProcessEngine [default] Version: [6.0.0.4]
Found process definition [Onboarding] with id [onboarding:1:4]
Onboarding process started with process instance id [5] key [onboarding]
Active outstanding tasks: [1]
Processing Task [Enter Data]
Full Name?

When prompted for name, enter a name. For example, Jane Doe and hit return.

Full Name?
Jane Doe
Years of Experience? (Must be a whole number)

When prompted for experience, enter 3.

Years of Experience? (Must be a whole number)
3
Faux call to backend for [Jane Doe]
-- Start [startOnboarding] 1 ms
-- Enter Data [enterOnboardingData] 137704 ms
-- Years of Experience [decision] 4 ms
-- Generic and Automated Data Entry [automatedIntro] 1 ms
-- End [endOnboarding] 1 ms

You should notice the Java service class AutomatedDataDelegate being called. It prints out the following message.

Faux call to backend for [Jane Doe]