Preface

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

—Richard Nixon

I'm not sure exactly at what point I decided to write this book. I think the moment of inspiration came one night while sitting in the hot tub a couple years back. That day, I had spent considerable time working with the newest release (at the time) of JBoss jBPM. I was extremely fired up as I had explored its capabilities, and the more I dug under the covers, the more excited I became. Technically, as I considered its features, it provided all the capabilities we were looking for at HireRight for a business process management (BPM) product. However, the real challenge was, how would we integrate the solution ...

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