Chapter 10. Implementing advanced workflow

This chapter covers

  • Learning about new workflow features, including delegation and subtasks
  • Integrating Activiti with an LDAP server
  • Using the multi-instance BPMN construct for workflow
  • Advanced usage of Activiti forms

In the previous chapters, we implemented a lot of user tasks to deal with manual or workflow functionality in a business process. By now, you’re also already familiar with the technique of defining form properties to create forms in the Activiti Explorer web application. But there’s a lot more to explore.

When you’re dealing with tasks like “Organize a developer conference,” you want to be able to structure tasks into subtasks. Imagine that you have that exact task. You could break ...

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