Flowable: Open for Digital Business
When anyone uses the word “open” in the same sentence as “Flowable”, people usually assume they’re talking about open source. Often, that will be true, but there are other aspects of openness that are also …
Handling Asynchronous Operations with Flowable – Part 4: Evolution of the Async Executor
Welcome to the fourth and last part of the series on the new Flowable Async Executor. The journey so far has been quite an intensive one: In the first part, the new Async Executor and …
Handling Asynchronous Operations with Flowable – Part 3: Performance Benchmarks
Welcome to the third post of the series on the Flowable Async Executor. After having described the basic concepts in the first part and having looked at the various components with its configuration options in …
Handling Asynchronous Operations with Flowable – Part 2: Components & Configuration
Welcome to the second post of the series on the Flowable Async Executor. In the first part of the series , we described the basic concepts: what asynchronous jobs and timers are; and why they’re …
Handling asynchronous operations with Flowable – Part 1: Introducing the new Async Executor
The Flowable Async Executor (also known as the Job Executor) is a crucial component of Flowable. At its core, it is a reusable, standalone component running within the various engines of Flowable that provides a …
Flowable + Spring Boot in a GraalVM Native Image
Introduction The GraalVM project has been something we’ve kept a close eye on since its very beginning. It was two years ago that we did two Youtube videos on running Flowable “serverless” and building a …
Multi Instance Variable Aggregation
Introduction Flowable has supported running Sequential and Parallel Multi instance executions since its very beginnings, as it is a fundamental concept in BPMN. It has different use cases, such as allowing multiple users to give …
Flowable 6.6.0 release
The 6.6.0 release is a huge release with lots of new features, including external worker tasks and true parallel execution. Where to get it: Download link: https://flowable.com/open-source/downloads/Maven (or other): update your dependencies to version 6.6.0The source …
What’s new with the Flowable UI Apps
Flowable has had example UI Apps for a while now. We decided to do some small improvements to make it easier for you to try them out and test the Flowable capabilities. From release 6.6, …
Instant Gratification with Flowable
“Ok, so there’s a download of Flowable available, meaning I don’t need to checkout and build from source, but you know what, I’ve still only got a few minutes to see if it’s worth investing …