Aperte Workflow is an Open Source BPM suite, providing ready-to-use, comprehensive process platform for Liferay Portal. Aperte Workflow BETA2 brings all features for the upcoming version 1.0, which will be released in February 2012.

Most important highlights and improvements are:

• 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 JBoss 5.1
• Support for Liferay 6.1.0 CE and Liferay 6.0.12 EE
• Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Hypersonic RDBMS
• Integrated Lucene search - with respect to roles and permissions configured on a process
• ProcessData Widget comes with visual editor for its definitions
• Support for Java Transaction API on Tomcat (Bitronix) and JBoss AS
• Process instance console, available in Liferay Control Panel. The console provides basic Business Activity Monitoring features:
  
  
  
  • Process search
    
  • Review process progression on its map
    
  • Administrative features, such as: cancel process instance, force process propagation, change task owner, etc.
• Plugin manager console available in Liferay Control Panel
• Process definition manager console, available in Liferay Control Panel

Aperte Workflow is available as:

• Standalone .war files for deployment in a custom environment
• Prepared installation bundle (Aperte Workflow, Aperte Modeler) with Liferay 6.0.6 and Tomcat - for further reconfiguration
• Demo with sample process and configured portlets - for those who want to review Aperte Workflow as fast as possible

More information:

• Release notes
• Download Aperte Workflow BETA2
• Aperte Workflow Modeler
• http://www.aperteworkflow.org
• GitHub project site
• Documentation

Looks awesome!! Thanks for sharing Cyprian.

Thanks! and wait till you see v1.0 it really will be awesome ;)
Please if you have any questions regarding this solution or Aperte Reports don't hasitate to ask questions

Hi again Cyprian,

Is this a "layer" between BPM engines and Liferay, or it has a built-in engine in it? (like Kaleo).

Thanks!

Hi Juan,

Aperte Workflow utilizes existing BPM engines (just like Liferay can run with Kaleo, jBPM, Activiti, ...), but it is done independently from Liferay's workflow configuration. Currently released version of Aperte Workflow comes bundled with jBPMv4.4, but in the near future more BPM engines will be supported.

To better understand Aperte Workflow you might think of elements required to put an enterprise BPM application together. You need a BPM engine (obviously), you need users management/security/layout (that's Liferay), you need a place for custom UI components coming from business requirements (Vaadin), you need to model your data (Hibernate) and to provide some kind of integration with external systems (e.g. Mule ES.

And Aperte Workflow can be seen as some kind of "glue" or integration between these software components - done once and done right (I hope), so that you don't have to do it by yourself no more - and also benefits from things that might be missed or neglected in custom BPM application deployment, such as: modeler, Business Activity Monitoring and finally reusability of components on all levels.

But even if it is a ready-to-use product, Aperte Workflow is still designed to be as as much open to customizations as it is possible. OSGi plugins deployed in Aperte Workflow, can do more than just render UI or call your legacy system - they can provide i18n settings, they can support other plugins (e.g. Mule Plugin detects and deploys simple Mule services provided by other plugins). It is really up to your imagination what you might do with a given API. But still, you have a rock-solid foundation for you BPM deployment.

A lot of information is available at the project Wiki, it is also very easy to just download installation/demo bundle and see Aperte Workflow for yourself

Best regards,

Tomek Lipski

Hi,

standalone works perfect.

Any plans to update it to 6.1.1 CE?
We tried to install but failed.

Thanks
Oliver