jBPM as a remote service

The jBPM platform is offering a number of ready-to-use remote APIs in an effort to provide developers with an improved level of flexibility when designing solutions that require out-of-the-box jBPM integration. This remote service layer opens up a number of possibilities for providing the stakeholders with a flexible, open architecture, in order to satisfy and to quickly react to changing application requirements, for instance:

• A number of external application systems may require to occasionally connect to the jBPM runtime in order to check some task or retrieve some process information

• The jBPM operations manager may be constrained to perform administration tasks by submitting a batch of commands via HTTP only

jBPM ships with the following remote service interfaces:

• REST API.

• JMS API.

• Java Remote API: This API provides the developer with local stubs of the KieSession, TaskService, and AuditService core engine services. These service stubs of the API methods are wrappers...