Activiti for Idiots

[eryk96]

We started using Activiti in our enterprise, goal is a greater project trying to implement business processes and adding controls.
The first impression is very good, it is easy to start designing processes, but soon one run into troubles.
One should know very much in order to start real work with activiti.
Is there any tutorial which starts at the real beginning without taking for granted that the user knows a lot about Tomcat, locations of Java jar files, ant and so on ? Since we want to our project also with university students which may not have deep knowledge about these topics such a very basic guide would be very, but very helpful.
I would also volunteer to write such a guide, if somebody would give me a hand in solving "low level" which are taking away very much of my time right now.

Thank you very much

Yours

Eryk

[yvoswillens]

Hi Eryk,

If you're taking the framework route; more from a Java developer's perspective; than these 'low level' things like Tomcat and JAR files should be basic stuff.
But if you're more interested using features (in stead of developing them) then I think Alfresco Activiti will be a better fit.
Try it out for free on; activiti.alfresco.com

Regards,

Yvo

[eryk96]

I understand your point. BTW low level does not mean any less value, this is used by sysadmin vocabulary, where I come from. With low I mean nearer to the application server, i.e. tomcat.
As I told you sooner or later ( hope sooner than later ) we wish to do add controls, so better understanding of low level issues will be fundamental.
But, …  where to start ?
We would need a step to step easy to perform approach which leads to more and more complicated issues.
Where do we find this ? I see the user guide is written by and for high skilled persons.
Java knowledge, basic understanding of the tomcat server, etc seems not to be enough.
That´s our problem.

[trademak]

Hi Eryk,

We are always looking for people that want to write about Activiti and this is a good area to focus on. Feel free to contact me for any help needed. We can publish the articles in our team feed on activiti.org as well.

Best regards,