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1. like a JBoss In Bossa
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2. HUMAN INTERACTIONS
for System Integrators

3. agenda
• Middleware/System Integration
• BPM is not about technology
• jBPM5
• BPMN2
• WS-HT Specification
• Components
• Task List Oriented UIs
• Advantages
• Smart Tasks / The future

4. Middleware/System
Integrations
Are you feeling lonely?

5. Middleware / System Integrations
In the university we learn:
There is no intention to handle the concept
of human interaction in these 3/N Layers.

6. Middleware / System Integrations
When we start doing system integration
we forget about people completely.
Obviously we cannot do only system integrations,
because if not there will be no systems to integrate.
Example: BPEL 1.0 - Pure WS interactions

7. Middleware / System Integrations
We need the concept of Human Interaction
when we are doing System Integrations...
Y U NO USE IT??

8. BPM against meaningless
System Integrations
FEEL LIKE A SIR

9. BPM
BPM is not a:
• synonym of System integration
• synonym of Orchestration
• state machine framework
• way to describe page flows in a web application

10. BPM
Business Process Management is a discipline about
• Describing and exposing how a business is working and
making profits
• Improving how a companies do their work
• Finding what can be improved to make things work better
• Automating and guiding the business activities
BPM works around the concept of Business Process..

11. BPM
Business Process
• sequence of activities
• humans and systems working together
• to achieve a business goal (not a technical goal)

12. BPM

13. BPM
And you know what?
BPM helps us as developers to change the perspective
about how we build solutions. Most business out there
are strongly influenced by people that do the work that
keeps the business alive.
And not:
• technology
• frameworks
• architectures

14. jbpm5
are you kidding me?

15. jBPM5
It is a business process management System
• Provides a Process Engine Runtime
• Allows us to write our Business Processes using the
BPMN2 standard

16. jBPM5
jBPM5 as a Business process Management System
• Implements the BPM concepts
• Offers a complete set of tools to automate
our business processes
• Promotes collaboration between business analysts
and developers
• Allows us to share how the application works
with the business people

17. jBPM5
jBPM5 as a Business process Management System
• Provide us with a Process Engine
• Implements two key specs
• BPMN 2.0
• WS-HT

18. BPMn2
• Graphical and formal language to describe business
situations
• Standard shared between different vendors
• It’s not just another XML file
• High Level syntax and execution semantics defined
by the spec
• Its a bridge between analysts and developers

19. BPMn2

20. WS-HT Specification
JOIN THE PARTY !!

21. WS-HT
The WS-HT specification focus
• Formalizes handling the human interactions life cyles
• Formalizes the information interchange
• Defines a metaphor for the interaction
• Defines as common API to interact

22. WS-HT
The concept of Human Task
• Human it must be a human
• Task
• Input / output information
• Rendering mechanism
• A role associated / a person assigned
and responsible for that task

23. WS-HT (in JBPM5)
GOOD NEWS!

24. WS-HT (in JBPM5)
jBPM5 provides an implementation of the WS-HT spec
• It’s a decoupled component
• It can be reused by any application
• It’s shared between different domains and integrated
with your company components
• It integrates easily with existing user directories
• No need to use business process if you don’t want to

25. TASK LIST ORIENTED UIs

26. TASK LIST ORIENTED UIs

27. TASK LIST ORIENTED UIs
Some advantages:
• Unified access to all the integrated systems:
• No need to use more than one system
• Unified concepts to interact with the system:
• Tasks will be shown as they become relevant to each role
• Easy to understand and follow
• Very similar to the concept of inbox in our email clients
• Can be prioritized depending on business requirements

28. BPMS
After some implementations...
Applying these generic concepts we save a lot of time,
but we don’t get domain specific tools
It’s never enough ...

29. smart tasks · the future
Y U NO play WITH US?

30. SMART TASKS
Business Perspectives (Context Aware Filtering)
• Multi dimensional views
• Data Decoration and Enrichment
• Context aware

31. SMART TASKS
User collaboration tooling (Real Time interaction)
• Communication channels
• Needs to be context aware
• Needs to be smoothly integrated with the ID component

32. SMART TASKS

33. SMART TASKS

34. SMART TASKS
Generic Helpers:
• Business related information that needs to be
aggregated for a specific task list or task form
• Application timers, alerts, warnings and handlers

35. SMART TASKS
Sum up
• Declarative approach to define these concepts
• Not related with any technology in the Front End
• On top of the WS-HT standard
• Second Release in progress
• We are looking for contributors!!!!

36. SOME REFERENCES
Some References
• http://salaboy.wordpress.com
• http://www.jbpm.org
• http://www.drools.org
• http://kverlaen.blogspot.com/
• JBPM Official Forum
• Google WS-HT Specification
• Google BPMN 2.0

37. Obrigado!
htt ps://github.com/salaboy/smart-tasks/