Aperte Workflow is an Open Source BPM suite, providing ready-to-use, comprehensive process platform for Liferay Portal.
Aperte Workflow version 2.0 RC1 some new great features:
Web service API
Support of parallel processes and subprocess.
Ability to create custom process dictionaries from the modeler.
And many more!
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Aperte Workflow is an Open Source BPM suite, providing ready-to-use, comprehensive process platform for Liferay Portal.
Aperte Workflow’s most important highlights and improvements are:
Integration with Liferay Portal, providing tons of advanced features.
Support for various BPM engines, including jBPM4.4 or Activiti 5.8
Operation via the web service.
Felix OSGi framework brings control and management over features used in business processes. It also supports component reusability through various business processes.
Simple and effective Enterprise Integration provided by Mule ESB plugin.
Friendly user interface brought by Vaadin framework. It is also possible and easy to enhance user interface elements with Vaadin.
Aperte Workflow Modeler - a complete, web-based process design environment. Aperte Workflow Modeler allows users to build, deploy and test processes in minutes, while still supporting the open architecture and plugins provided by Aperte Workflow.
Support for popular servlet containers (JBoss, Tomcat) and RDBMS - with JTA support.
Integrated Lucene search - with respect to roles and permissions configured on a process.
Process instance console, available in Liferay Control Panel. The console provides basic Business Activity Monitoring features.
Configuration consoles available in Liferay Control Panel.
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Aperte Workflow is available as:
Standalone .war files for deployment in a custom environment
Demo with sample processes and preconfigured portlets - for those who want to review Aperte Workflow as fast as possible
Aperte projects looks promising but it's upgrading Vaadin too much making it too unreliable to anything but experimental usage to test out functionalities. Hope you'll be able to make it more stable.
