servicemix&activiti

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:

• Allows user updates to be combined with process updates in a single transaction

• Runs on any Java environment like Spring, JTA, standalone with any form of transaction demarcation

• Easy to get up and running with the setup utility

• Built to support the cloud scalability from the ground up

• Very simple to add new custom activity types and complete dedicated process languages

• Transactional timers

• Asynchronous continuations

• Hidden event listeners for decoupling software technical details from business level diagram

• 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:

• create a project

• 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