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master	《Activiti in Action》- Wrote by Henry Yan China

Part I Ready

Chapter 1. Activiti

• 1.1 What's the Activiti
• 1.2 Workflow Foundation
• 1.2.1 What's the BPM
• 1.2.2 BPM lifecycle
• 1.2.3 What's the BPMN
• 1.3 Features in Activiti
• 1.4 Activiti in Application
• 1. 在系统集成方面应用
2. 在其他产品中应用
• 1.5 Activiti's
• 1.6 Compare with jBPM5
• 1.7 Summary

Chapter 2. Set up Activiti develop environment

• 2.1 Download Activiti
• 2.1.1 Directory Structure
• 2.1.2 Javadoc
• 2.2 Environment and check
• 2.2.1 Check and install JDK
• 2.2.2 Check and install Ant
• 2.2.3 Check and install Maven
• 2.3 Introduced Configuration files
• 2.3.1 Activiti's configuration file
• 2.3.2 Maven configuration file
• 2.4 Hello World
• 2.4.1 Simple process definition
• 2.4.2 Crate unit test class
• 2.4.3 Run Hello World
• 2.4.4 Add business nodes
• 2.5 Activiti Explorer
• 2.5.1 Config and run Activiti Explorer
• 2.5.2 Use Activiti Explorer
• 2.6 Summary

### Part II Chapter 3. Process design tools

• 3.1 B/S architecture process designer -- Activiti Modeler
• 3.1.1 Features of Activiti Modeler
• 3.1.2 Download Signavio-core-components
• 3.1.3 Package and run
• 3.1.4 Windows
• 3.1.5 Design leave process
• 3.1.6 Export bpmn2.0.xml
• 3.2 Use Activiti Modeler in Activiti Explorer
• 3.3 Eclipse plugin - Activiti Designer
• 3.3.1 Features of Acvititi Designer
• 3.3.2 Install Activiti Designer
• 3.3.3 Design process
• 3.3.4 Automatic
• 3.3.5 Upgrade old processes
• 3.3.6 Import from Activiti Modeler
• 3.3.7 Pool and lane
• 3.3.8 Design pool and lane in Activiti Designer
• 3.4 Summary

Chapter 4. Activiti and BPMN2.0

• 4.1. Start and end event
• 4.1.1. Start Event
• 4.1.2. End Event
• 4.2. Sequence Flow
• 4.2.1. Default Sequence Flow
• 4.2.2. Condition Sequence Flow
• 4.3. Tasks
• 4.3.1. User Task
• 4.3.2. Script Task
• 4.3.3. Java Service Task
• 4.3.4. Web Service Task
• 4.3.5. Business Rule Task
• 4.3.6. Mail Task
• 4.3.7. Camel Task
• 4.3.8. Mule Task
• 4.3.9. Manual Task
• 4.3.10. Recive Task
• 4.3.11. Shell Task
• 4.3.12. Multi instance
• 4.4. Gateway
• 4.4.1. Exclusive Gateway
• 4.4.2. Parallel Gateway
• 4.4.3. Inclusive Gateway
• 4.4.4. Event-based Gateway
• 4.5. Sub-processes and Call Activities
• 4.5.1. subprocess
• 4.5.2. call activities
• 4.5.3. Event sub-processes
• 4.5.4. Transaction subprocess
• 4.6. Boundary events and Intermediate events
• 4.6.1. Boundary events
• 4.6.2. Intermediate Catching Events
• 4.6.3. Intermediate Throwing Event
• 4.7. Listeners
• 4.7.1. Execution Listeners
• 4.7.2. Task Listeners
• 4.8. Summary

### Part III Action Chapter 5. Identity and Deployment

• 5.1. Users and Groups
• 5.1.1. User
• 5.1.2. Group
• 5.1.3. Membership
• 5.1.4. Users and groups in User Task
• 5.2. Deployment
• 5.2.1. Deploy use Classath
• 5.2.2. Deploy use InputStream
• 5.2.3. Deploy use String
• 5.2.4. Package Zip/Bar
• 5.3. Deployment and read resources
• 5.3.1. Get process definitions
• 5.3.2. Deploy from client
• 5.3.3. Read xml of process definition
• 5.3.4. Resolve invalid text in Chinese
• 5.3.5. Delete deployments
• 5.4. Summary

Chapter 6. Form

• 6.1. Dynamic form
• 6.1.1. Process Definition
• 6.1.2. Unit test
• 6.1.3. Run process in Activiti Explorer
• 6.2. Design your Activiti Explorer
• 6.2.1. 完善身份验证功能
• 6.2.2. Start form
• 6.2.3. Claim and handle tasks
• 6.2.4. Custome form types
• 6.3. Form Key
• 6.3.1. Process Definition
• 6.3.2. Unit test
• 6.3.3. Custome form engine
• 6.3.4. Get start form key
• 6.3.5. Claim and handle tasks
• 6.4. Summary

Chapter 7. integrate Activiti with other containers

• 7.1. Process engine factory
• 7.1.1. Init process engine mode
• 7.1.2. Config ProcessEngineFactoryBean
• 7.2. Auto deploy processes
• 7.3. Expression
• 7.3.1. Expression based
• 7.3.2. Expression examples
• 7.3.3. Manage variables use spring
• 7.4. Listeners
• 7.5. Use Spring engine in application
• 7.5.1. Model
• 7.5.2. Start process
• 7.5.3. Get tasks
• 7.5.4. Handle tasks
• 7.6. Init process engine use annotations of spring
• 7.6.1. Use @EnableActiviti
• 7.6.2. Init process engine use Spring Boot
• 7.7. CDI module
• 7.7.1. Start with CDI
• 7.7.2. Config engine and process definitions
• 7.7.3. Start process
• 7.7.4. Handle and complete tasks
• 7.7.5. Event listeners
• 7.8. Summary

Chapter 8. Mail service

• 8.1. Configration and test
• 8.1.1. Setup mail system
• 8.1.2. Send mail by mail task of Activiti
• 8.1.3. Send mail by Gmail
• 8.2. Integration with business
• 8.2.1. Send mail immediately
• 8.2.2. Send mail regularly
• 8.3. Summary

Chater 9. Multi instance

• 9.1. Multi instance in non-user tasks
• 9.2. Multi instance in user tasks
• 9.2.1. Sequential
• 9.2.2. Concurrent
• 9.2.3. Set complete conditions
• 9.3. Example - leave countersign
• 9.3.1. Process definition
• 9.3.2. Handle tasks
• 9.4. Audit comments
• 9.5. Summary

Chapter 10. Sub-process and Call Activity

• 10.1. Sub-process
• 10.1.1. Process definition
• 10.1.2. Handle processes
• 10.1.3. Analyze process datas
• 10.2. Call Activity
• 10.2.1. Process definition
• 10.2.2. Unit test
• 10.2.3. Handle processes
• 10.2.4. Analyze process datas
• 10.3. Event sub-process
• 10.3.1. Process definition
• 10.3.2. Unit test
• 10.4. Multi instance in sub-process and call activitiy
• 10.5. Summary

Chapter 11. Events

• 11.1 Start events
• 11.1.1 Timer start event
• 11.1.2 Message start event
• 11.2 End events
• 11.2.1 Termination end event
• 11.2.2 Message end event
• 11.3 Boundary events
• 11.3.1 Error boundary event
• 11.3.2 Message boundary event
• 11.3.3 Signal boundary event
• 11.4 Intermediate events
• 11.5 Summary

Chapter 12. Tasks and attachments

• 12.1. User Task
• 12.1.1 Improvment task list
• 12.1.2 Improvment task forms
• 12.1.3 Tasks related to personnel
• 12.1.4 Unclaim task
• 12.1.5 Candidate users and Candidate groups
• 12.1.6 Improvment task query
• 12.2. Sub task
• 12.3. Manual task
• 12.4. Attachment
• 12.5. Improvment comment list
• 12.6. Delegate task
• 12.6.1 Unit test
• 12.6.2 Delegate task in task form
• 12.7. Summary

Chapter 13. Query and Trace

• 13.1. Introduce Query API
• 13.2. Runtime queries
• 13.2.1. Task query
• 13.2.2. Query processes involved
• 13.3. Trace processes
• 13.4. Query history datas
• 13.4.1. History activities and form query
• 13.4.2. Query finished processes
• 13.5. Query by Mybatis's
• 13.6. Summary

Chapter 14. Management

• 14.1. Status
• 14.1.1 Status of process definitions
• 14.1.2 Job Query
• 14.1.3 Status of process instances
• 14.2. Manage Job
• 14.2.1 Principle of job
• 14.2.2 Exception of job
• 14.2.3 Exclusive and asynchronous
• 14.3. Delete process instances
• 14.4. Authority of process defenitions
• 14.4.1 Filters of authority
• 14.4.2 Set candidate user and candidate groups of process definitions
• 14.4.3 Read filterable process definitions
• 14.5. Get properties of process engine
• 14.6. Query tables data of engine
• 14.7. Manage users and groups
• 14.8. Summary

### Part IV. Advanced Chapter 15. WebService in Activiti

• 15.1. Publish WebService
• 15.2. WebService task in process definition
• 15.3. Execute WebService in process
• 15.4. Summary

Chapter 16. Business Rule

• 16.1. Design process and business rules
• 16.1.1. Deploy rule files
• 16.1.2. Unit test
• 16.2. Summary

Chapter 17. JPA

• 17.1. Config JPA
• 17.1.1 Standalone mode
• 17.1.2 Spring mode
• 17.2. JPA version of the process
• 17.2.1 Persistence entities when starting process
• 17.2.2 Change entity properties
• 17.2.3 Clean history datas
• 17.3. Summary

Chapter 18. ESB

• 18.1 Introduce Camel
• 18.2 Camel quick start
• 18.3 Hello World
• 18.4 Add Camel dependencies
• 18.5 Integration with business
• 18.5.1 Design process definition
• 18.5.2 Design Camel Flow
• 18.5.3 Start Camel Flow
• 18.5.4 Unit test
• 18.6 Introduce ESB
• 18.7 Mule quick start
• 18.8 Hello World
• 18.9 Add Mule dependencies
• 18.10 Integration with business
• 18.10.1 Design process definition
• 18.10.2 Design Mule Flow
• 18.10.3 Start Mule Flow
• 18.10.4 Unit test
• 18.11 Summary

Chapter 19. Unified identity

• 19.1. A typical identity system
• 19.2. Synchronous data by interfaces
• 19.2.1 Use IdentityService
• 19.2.2 Custom SessionFactory
• 19.3. Use views instead of tables
• 19.4. LDAP
• 19.5. Summary

Chapter 20. REST API

• 20.1. Introduction of communication protocols
• 20.2. Introduce REST API
• 20.2.1. REST API authentication mechanism
• 20.3. Publish REST API
• 20.3.1. Access service by browser
• 20.3.2. Access service by Http Client
• 20.3.3. Access service by Restlet
• 20.3.4. Access service by Apache CXF
• 20.4. Integration REST API
• 20.4.1. Dependencies and configration files
• 20.4.2. Access service by Ajax
• 20.5. Example
• 20.5.1. Deploy processes
• 20.5.2. Query deployments
• 20.5.3. Query process definitions
• 20.5.4. Start process
• 20.5.5. Get variables of process instances
• 20.5.6. Qyer tasks
• 20.5.7. Claim tasks
• 20.5.8. Complete task
• 20.5.9. Query history datas
• 20.6. Summary

Chapter 21. Invade Activiti

• 21.1 Parse BPMN file
• 21.1.1. Converte BpmnModel and XML
• 21.1.2. Create process dynamic
• 21.1.3. BPMN parse handlers
• 21.2 Event handler
• 21.2.1. Config event handler
• 21.2.2. Catch and handle events
• 21.2.3. Handle expcetion in events
• 21.2.4. Register event handlers runtime
• 21.2.5. Task auto redirect
• 21.3 Command and interceptor
• 21.3.1. Command and interceptor mechanism
• 21.3.2. Custom commands
• 21.3.3. Interceptors of command
• 21.4 PVM
• 21.4.1. Introduce PVM
• 21.4.2. Hello PVM
• 21.4.3. Advance of PVM
• 21.5 Summary