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Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #55

Last week we merged the initial refactoring of the Java Runtime APIs into our develop branches of our projects. We also merged updates on our example projects, quickstart and acceptance tests. The BluePrint TTC project is still due to be migrated to ...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #54

Last week we moved forward the new APIs refactoring to all of our services and extensions. We started validating the new data types and exposed endpoints against our existing acceptance tests and we are a couple of tests away to finalize the first ro...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #53

Last week we started a new testing round for our Kubernetes Deployments after the initial refactoring to use the new APIs. We are getting better and better into testing large refactorings for distributed deployments and we are looking forward to rele...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #52

Last week we spend some time closing the final details of the Java Runtime API and improved our support for Events and Base Data Types to make sure that our services can be completely decoupled. We are looking forward to close this release to continu...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #51

Last week we made considerable progress on moving forward on the new API implementation in our core services. @erdemedeirosgot the Runtime Bundle and Query Service implementation updated and I took the lead on Audit. Now our core services should use ...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #50

Wow 50 weeks of heavy work! Last week we (the Activiti Team) presented in JDK.IOand JBCNConf. You can find the slides and the workshop instructions here: https://jdk.io/jdk-io-2018/talks/231-cloud-native-business-automationhttps://github.com/Activiti...

Using Docker to Get Started with Alfresco Process Services

I recently wrote this blog post https://www.ziaconsulting.com/developer-help/using-docker-alfresco-process-services/ that gives instructions for getting started with Alfresco Process Services (APS) using docker. It includes additional details beyond...

Activiti Enterprise Developer Series - Custom REST Endpoints

Table of Contents IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesImplementing a Custom REST API Implementing the REST ControllerMaking the REST endpoint part of Public APIInjecting Spring Beans into the REST ControllerCalling a REST endpoint f...

Activiti Cloud Workshop in Kubernetes with Jenkins X

Hi everyone! Yesterday we did a workshop at @JBCNConf about using Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Kubernetes, Jenkins X and Activiti Cloud. It was the first time that we did a full 2hs session to deploying a set of services which implement the Activiti Cl...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #49

Last week we made some huge progress on the new Java Runtime APIs and refinements in our building blocks to make sure that applications can be built without the need of heavy customization and tuning. The Trending Topics Blueprint is being simplified...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #48

Last week we merged into our Incubator repositorythe first and initial version of our standalone Task Service created by @MiguelRuizDev. Miguel is working on in this service while he is doing his internship here @Alfresco. We will iterate this servic...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #47

Last week we spend a lot of time refining examples and upgrading our infrastructure to leverage kubernetes services by using Spring Cloud Kubernetes projects. We started working on upgrading the BluePrint: Trending Topic campaigns in order to use the...

JJUG CCC 2018: Spring Cloud -> Docker -> Kubernetes

We (@daisuke_yoshimoand myself) presented our lessons learned about Spring Cloud, Docker and Kubernetes while designing, implementing and testing Activiti Cloud. <pictures coming soon>Here are the slides and the source code repositories to run the de...

Spring Cloud Kubernetes Example

Hi everyone, as part of the Activiti Cloudproject we have been testing our Cloud Native building blocks extensively into Kubernetes clusters. We started by using MiniKubeand that worked well for some time, but now we are moving to real clusters to do...

New Activiti.org website!

We are happy to announce the new website (www.activiti.org) for Activiti is now live.This new version has an updated look and feel that reflects our new cloud native approach to Business Automation. It is now hosted on GitHub so we can iteratively im...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #46

Last week we worked hard into moving forward our services and making sure that they can be deployed into an AWS Kubernetes Cluster and also a GCE Kubernetes Cluster. This will enable us to validate our examples and blueprints in a more consistent way...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #45

Last week we kept pushing to get our initial version of the Applications Service into our Activiti Cloud Example. We currently have a new repository containing the core logic for this serviceand we are looking forward to test the initial version alon...

GeeCon '18: Lessons Learned - Spring Cloud in Activiti OSS

I had a great time in Krakow, Poland at GeeCon 18' the 10th edition of this highly recognised conference focused in Java. In general the conference was amazing, excellent venue, great weather, beautiful city great talks and an amazing Java Community....

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #44

Last week we focused in closing Pull Request that were waiting for review and pushed the next iteration of the Process & Task Runtime APIs plus the Application Service integration with other components in the infrastructure. We also did a spike to bu...

Activiti & Activiti Cloud Roadmap Update 3/5/18

After #44 weeks of heavy work we are getting closer and closer to our first Beta1release. We are actively working in getting the first iteration of our building blocks in shape to cover a set of common scenarios for cloud deployments. After Beta1we w...