Petals Distribution

Following the major event about Activiti project occurring in October 2016, the creation of fork Flowable, we decides to join this new project Flowable migrating our BPMN 2.0 service engine to this branch.

So, the new SE "Flowable" will replace the SE "Activiti" in the Petals Enterprise Edition. The SE "Activiti" will be moved in the community edition, and will be maintained to run as-is on next few versions of Petals container.

In the same time, we move to the version 6 of Flowable that have following improvements:

• Abstract persistence layer, enabling use of relational or non-relational data sources: http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2016/11/02/running-flowable-on-cockroachdb/
• 1-to-1 mapping of BPMN model to executable instruction set
• Simplified execution tree, enabling easier analysis and manipulation of in-flight processes
• Single agenda for process execution plans
• Queue-based job execution: http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2016/07/20/message-queue-async-executor-benchmark/
• Ad hoc Sub Processes: http://bpmn20inaction.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/activiti-6-adds-ad-hoc-sub-process.html