July 11, 2019 | General | No comment
The 6.4.2 release is mainly a bug fix release. The next release path will be towards Flowable 6.5.0 where we will be adding new features like history cleanup and improved JMS messaging support. Where to get it: Download link: https://flowable.org/downloads.htmlMaven (or other): update your dependencies to version 6.4.2The source code can be found on Github: https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/tree/flowable-6.4.2 Highlights … Read more
July 11, 2019 | How To | No comment
In Flowable 6.4.2, support for CockroachDB was added. We’ve sat together with the engineers from Cockroach Labs (the company behind CockroachDB) to make sure we’ve got the details right and to exchange feedback both ways. After all, CockroachDB (called CRDB in next paragraphs) is not a ‘regular database’. According to it’s Github page, it’s a … Read more
February 26, 2019 | General, Spring, webinar | No comment
Flowable core developers Filip Hrisafov and Joram Barrez continue the Flowable + serverless journey by looking at other technologies that make a serverless “process as a function” possible. In part 1, they discussed what serverless is, its challenges with regards to the Flowable engines and demonstrated implementations using Flowable with Spring Cloud (including running it … Read more
January 29, 2019 | General, Spring, webinar | No comment
There’s a lot being written and talked about serverless these days. Whether from the infrastructural or from the software architectural point of view, at minimum it’s worth thinking about this way of deploying and writing software. Calling out to a serverless function from a process or case is one thing, but it gets really interesting … Read more
January 14, 2019 | General | No comment
The 6.4.1 release has become a bit bigger then we initially were planning. A lot of improvements and new features have been added to the CMMN engine, but also the BPMN engine has some interesting new features as well. The next release path will be towards Flowable 6.5.0 where we will be updating to the … Read more
December 19, 2018 | How To, Spring | No comment
During our last community event (FlowFest 2018 hosted by Dow Jones), I gave a demo on how to build your own Flowable Spring Boot Application from scratch. You can find the video here and the code for this blog post can be found here. In this blog post we’re going to cover how we can create … Read more
October 2, 2018 | General | No comment
Where to get it: Download link: https://flowable.org/downloads.html Maven (or other): update your dependencies to version 6.4.0 The source code can be found on Github: https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/tree/flowable-6.4.0 Highlights A first version of process instance migration has been added to the Flowable BPMN Engine. In the RuntimeService you can now use the createProcessInstanceMigrationBuilder to define and execute the process instance … Read more
September 11, 2018 | General | No comment
Authors: José Antonio Álvarez, Simon Maier The concept of multitenancy is widely mentioned in modern architectures, especially with the growth of cloud computing. Applications supporting multitenancy allow different organizations (or tenants) to share a single instance of software while keeping their data isolated from each other. Companies benefit in several ways from the multitenancy … Read more
August 13, 2018 | General | 1 comment
Recently MongoDB released version 4.0 of its open-source NoSQL document-based database. One of the main new features is the support for multi-document transactions (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/transactions/) with true ACID semantics, which means that it’s now possible to make changes to multiple JSON documents in different collections in one transaction. For the Flowable Engines this is super-interesting: the logic … Read more
July 16, 2018 | General | No comment
Author: José Antonio Álvarez Note: This post is a continuation of this one, as many readers have asked what happens when asynchronous jobs run out of retries. Handling of failed jobs After a job fails several times (depending on the configured number of retries [1]), the engine won’t execute it again. Instead, the job … Read more
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