Preface

Writing this book was a life-changer for me. After I wrote Open Source ESBs in Action for Manning a few years ago, I focused on my daily job for some time, working with open source enterprise integration frameworks like Mule, Camel, ServiceMix, and Spring Integration. My work, over time, drove me to designing and developing processes and BPM, and I started using jBPM and WebSphere Process Server. Then I learned that the founder of the jBPM project, Tom Baeyens, was leaving JBoss to work on a new open source project, which was in stealth mode at that time (early 2010). When the first alpha version of Activiti was released, I told myself I had to contribute to that project, one way or another.

A piece that was missing in the first stages ...

Get Activiti in Action now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.