Summary of the advances made in the core Open Source Flowable BPM engines in 2019

1. What’s New?
Tijs Rademakers (@tijsrademakers)
15-11-2019
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Strong growth in community
Three 6.4 releases
Focused on the 6.5.0 release
Remaining focus on the BPMN, CMMN and DMN engine
State of the Flowable project
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Plan item instances stored in runtime tables
Support to listen to BPMN signal events
Change state logic for case instances
Lots of general CMMN improvements
Lots of CMMN improvements
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Complex models decomposed in CMMN and BPMN
More details: CMMN makes BPMN smarter and engaging
by Micha Kiener
Power in combining CMMN and BPMN
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BPMNCMMN

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Similar to identity links in flexibility and structure
Links a parent instance to a child instance or task
Full tree is stored, so the root instance has a link to all the
children
Supports easy querying for all tasks for a case instance
Or all children of a process instance
Can be used for other entity linking logic as well
Entity links
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Possibility to test lots of different DBs and versions
Support for different JDK versions
Jumped on Github Actions
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Cockroach DB support
DMN 1.2 support
Runtime activity instances
Kubernetes support
Tenant fallback implementation
• Search within definitions with same parent deployment (app)
• Search within tenant first
• Fallback to default tenant
Other new features
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New developments
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Pluggable channels like Kafka, JMS etc
Inbound and outbound pipelines
Correlation support
BPMN start event, boundary event, send event task
CMMN start, event listener, send event task
More details: Using Kafka: the Flowable Event Registry by
Joram Barrez and Filip Hrisafov
Improved event support
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Full overview of transaction steps in BPMN and CMMN
Can also be used when a transaction rolls back
Exact order of executed steps
More details: BPMN and CMMN execution error analysis
by Tijs Rademakers
Logging session
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Support to configure and run batches
Uses jobs to execute batch parts
Can be used for batch process instance migration
More details: Complex batch process migration by Tijs
Rademakers
Batch support
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History tables grow big over time
Historic data only required for 6 months / 1 year / ….
Full historic data in ElasticSearch / ….
Query support to delete historic instances
Support to automatically clean up historic data after a
configured period at a configured time
History cleanup support
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Flowable 6.5.0 release including the new developments
Blog series about event architectures with Flowable
Blog series about CMMN and the possibilities of
combining CMMN and BPMN
Improved documentation
Community feedback for new features always
appreciated
Next up
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14. Thank you.
https://flowable.com/flowfest2019/