Spring Boot Web application with embedded Camunda engine

This example demonstrates how you can build a Spring Boot Web application with the following configured:

• Embedded Camunda engine accessible via REST
• Process application and one BPMN process deployed
• Spring Boot Security basic authentication

It also contains a couple of integration tests, showing how this can be tested.

How is it done

1. To embed the Camunda Engine accessible via REST API you must add following dependency to your pom.xml:

...
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.camunda.bpm.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camunda-bpm-spring-boot-starter-rest</artifactId>
  <version>3.4.0</version>
</dependency>
...

2. With Spring Boot you usually create an "application" class annotated with @SpringBootApplication. In order to have the Camunda process application registered, you can simply add an annotation @EnableProcessApplication to the same class and also include processes.xml file to your META-INF folder:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableProcessApplication
public class RestApplication {

  public static void main(final String... args) throws Exception {
    SpringApplication.run(RestApplication.class, args);
  }

}

3. You can also put BPMN, CMMN and DMN files in your classpath, they will be automatically deployed and registered within a process application.

Note: Basic authentication is configured on Spring Boot level, this is NOT a Camunda Engine authentication. Check this docs to configure Basic Authentication for Camunda Engine REST API.

Run the application and call the REST API

You can then build the application with mvn clean install and then run it with java -jar command.

Then you can access the REST API in the browser through: http://localhost:8080/rest/engine (provide login/password: user/password).

Another endpoint to test: http://localhost:8080/rest/engine/default/process-definition - this will show you the deployed process definition.