1. Just some demo slides
for camunda.com
Activiti Training
Getting started with the Open Source BPM Platform
Covering Activiti 5.x

2. Jobs and Asynchronous Continuations
= Transaction Boundaries
Application / Client Thread 3
taskService.complete(id)
2
1
1st TX 2nd TX
Logical unit of work which
has to succeed or fail atomically
-> executed in a single transaction

3. Jobs and Asynchronous Continuations
= Transaction Boundaries
Application / Client Thread Activiti Job Executor
Thread
taskService.complete(id)
2 3
1
activiti:async=‘‘true“
1st TX 2nd TX 3rd TX
Generating the invoice is not part of the same
logical unit of work
-> executed asynchronously in a 2nd transaction
<serviceTask id="service1" name="Generate Invoice"
activiti:class="my.custom.Delegate"
activiti:async="true" />

4. Call Activity: Reusable Sub-Processes
 Key is used to identify called process
 Process is resolved at runtime
 Version can be included in key of the process

5. Subprocesses (Embedded)
Collapsed view (not
supported in most
tools, e.g. Activiti)

6. The sub process is part of the main process

7. Subprocesses (Call Activity)

8. Multiple Instance Marker

9. Error Event

10. Exercise 5
Advanced
Modelling
constructs
Follow the provided
instructions for lab 5.