Process modeling with JBoss BPMS

In Chapter 8, Making Better Decisions in Your Applications, we installed JBoss BRMS. We could also have installed the full BPMS suite that covered both business rule management and business process management. In the following section, we will see how to quickly install BPM suite and start modeling business processes using the BPMN notation.

Installing JBoss BPM

As with BRMS, BPMS works on top of an application server. In the following section, we will install a BPMS 6.4 on top of JBoss EAP 7.0.0 server. There are two installation modes: a graphical installer that can handle the installation back-to-back or the second option, which consists of patching an existing EAP server with BPMS ZIP. The steps for the second option are given as follows:

• Download jboss-eap-7.0.0.zip
• Download jboss-bpmsuite-6.4.0.GA-deployable-eap7.x.zip from the Red Hat developer portal
• Unzip the ZIP in the same folder:

$ cd BeosBankBPMS
$ unzip jboss-eap-7.0.0.zip
$ unzip -o jboss-bpmsuite...