JBoss Introduces Workflow Engine for BPM
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&quot;JBoss jBPM signifies another major step for JBoss, as we continue to build out a complete open source middleware platform of loosely coupled projects all backed by enterprise-grade services
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Open source company JBoss has added a workflow engine to its roster as it continues building out its middleware platform around the JBoss application server.
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InfoWorld - Extending its developer outreach, complex event processing software maker StreamBase is making a development environment available as a free plug-in to the Eclipse platform.
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More open-source software for businesses: The Apache Software Foundation is launching a project for a Java process automation server.
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Red Hat revealed a new JBoss project aimed at displacing BEA's Tuxedo transaction-monitoring engine.
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(InfoWorld) - JBoss is announcing Monday a faster version of JBoss Rules, the company's open source business rules engine. Gains in speed in version 4.0 have resulted in rules processing in seconds as opposed to minutes, said Burr Sutter, technical product manager for JBoss. Speed has been increased by new "sequentiality" methods, which do not assume the rules change all the time. The product is 40 percent faster than before. Based on the JBoss Drools Project, JBoss Rules is used to set rules within a business process. It can be deployed for functions such as establishing computational business logic associated with an application. Examples would be a pricing engine or a routing node. An AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)-enabled Web console in version 4.0 extends Rules to nonprogrammers. "It allows nonprogramming staffers to actually interact with [JBoss] Rules and develop rules, and it gives the administrators the opportunity to have lifecycle control over those rules," Sutter said. The ability to express rules has been enhanced in version 4.0 through the addition of support for MVEL (MVFlex Expression Language). Support also continues for Java rules. "We have a much more powerful language environment now," Sutter said. JBoss Rules is being integrated with the JBoss ESB (enterprise service bus), in which the rules engine can examine the content of a message, such as an invoice, and make decisions on where to send the message. The ESB handles message flow while Rules serves as a "traffic cop" working in conjunction with the ESB, said Sutter. JBoss provides a "rules service" for the ESB. A guided rules editor has been added, allowing users to point and click to declare a business rule using list boxes. JBoss Rules 4.0 is also described as being Hibernate-ready; that is, it can function with JBoss' Hibernate object-relational mapping software, which converts relational database rows into Java objects. A business rule could be built that, for example, pulls customer names directly from the database.
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Next month's update to JBoss's Java software suite will add a component key to its SOA plans.
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com. Open-source company JBoss Inc. on Monday introduced a workflow engine that broadens the company&#39;s middleware stack. JBPM 2.0 was developed with the open-source project of the same name and joins
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10 vendors of BPM tools have joined the Microsoft Business Process Alliance and agreed to add support for Microsoft's Biztalk server to their products.
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JBoss has released a new version of its open source business process management application, called "jBPM."
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Progress Software is launching its Progress Actional 7.1 SOA management platform Monday, featuring visibility across business processes and into related services and IT infrastructure.Business processes and BPM systems are tied into the underlying service infrastructure, said Dan Foody, vice president of Actional products at Progress. With Version 7.1, dependencies are revealed between business processes, services, middleware, and databases. Actional can provide proactive management or insight into why a business process failed."Now, we can relate the steps in the business process all the way down to the databases at the very end of that chain," so if a database goes down, Actional users can know which steps in the business process might be affected, Foody said.Also, if a service needs to be changed, or versioned, users can understand the impact of that service alteration. Impacts on applications such as an order entry processing system can be gauged.Actional's accommodations for BPM are needed, said analyst Frank Kenney, research director at Gartner. "It's something I think is very necessary, and it marks a different movement in the traditional SOA governance technology [space]. It starts to incorporate the notion of integrating with BPM technologies," Kenney said.Actional is providing visibility into the lifecycle of processes, but it will need to explain its system to customers and prospects, he said."The story is incredibly sophisticated, given that many people embarking on SOA governance are still getting their arms around what is a registry and what is a repository," Kenney said.Progress with Actional 7.1 also has integration with the Lombardi Teamworks BPM system and plans to add integrations with BPM systems from companies such as Software AG and Fujitsu.Support for Kerberos security also is highlighted. "It makes it easier to tie Windows environments very securely into Unix environments that may be running other security systems like SAML," Foody said.Also, Actional 7.1 can inspect the payload of messages not based on XML, such as RMI- or Enterprise JavaBeans-based messages. "[This capability] allows you to gain deeper insight into the applications that haven't yet been converted to Web services or may never get converted to Web services," said Foody.Actional 7.1 is available now with prices starting at $20,000. Progress acquired Actional about two years ago.
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JBoss Application Server 4.0, middleware recently certified for J2EE, is ready for enterprise production deployment, according to JBoss.
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TechWeb - Intalio, a maker of open source business process management software, has released its Tempo workflow framework under the Eclipse Public License.
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IBM has issued an upgrade of its WebSphere middleware product, adding autonomic troubleshooting capabilities that autmatically detects system problems and recovers Web-based business transactions that would take days to fix manually.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. hopes to boost the adoption of BPM (business process management) applications by adding support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in the workflow layer of Windows Vista, the company said Monday. It also has formed an alliance of software vendors aimed at making BPEL a more mainstream technology.
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The company Monday announced it has hired Tom Baeyens, the founder and lead developer of jBpm, an open source workflow engine. As with its other products, JBoss will sell services and support for jBpm (which
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OpenWFE is an open source java workflow engine. It is a complete Business Process Management suite, with 4 components : an engine, a worklist, a webclient and a reactor (host for automatic agents). It can also be used behind the scene. OpenWFE 1.4.1 is a bug fix release. One important concept was introduced for stores : the order in which they are instantiated in the worklist configuration file is now the order in which they are asked if they accept a workitem for a given participant name.   The first store to accept (by name pattern matching) a workitem 'wins' it.  The default store is not 'Store.default' anymore, it is now the last declared store. To follow this scheme, the example Store.default has been moved at the end of the release store declarations.