BPM Console 1.1.2 released

BPM Conosle 1.1.2 carries minor enhancements, probably the most notable change is the switch from HTTP Basic Auth to form based authentication and session management (BPMC-12). Here's the complete changelog:

Release Notes - BPM Console - Version BPM Console 1.1

• [BPMC-7] - url is wrong in the resources page for jbpm profile
  
• [BPMC-1] - Make tasks the default editor
  
• [BPMC-2] - Move settings to the bottom
  
• [BPMC-3] - Split rendering directives and process variables in form processor
  
• [BPMC-5] - Tomcat Lite doesn't pickup profile changes
  
• [BPMC-9] - Form processing requires access to principal doing the call
  
• [BPMC-10] - Pick JAAS domain for server module from build profile
  
• [BPMC-8] - Set the correct log for RESTEasy in JBoss As.
  
• [BPMC-12] - Switch to form based authentication and session management
  
• [BPMC-13] - Remove TX demarcation inPluginMgr
  

BPM Console screencasts

Several new screencast have popped up recently that show the BPM console in Action.

- Joram shows how to customize the reporting.
- Kris did an excellent overview of the console as a whole, including task forms.

Alex McGuire on Using Scala in a Large-Scale Project

Alex McGuire, a developer with Électricité de France, describes how his team has been gradually migrating to Scala in a 300,000-line mission-critical production application. More ...

James Strachan on Scala

If you are interested in Scala, then I'd recommend James blogpost on Scala. He did collect a lot of resources to whet your appetite.

Integrating App Engine with EC2

A usual morning: Grab a coffee, check your emails and browse the latest rss feed updates. This time stumbled across an interesting session, given at google i/o: "App Engine Nitty-Gritty: Scalability, Fault Tolerance, and Integrating Amazon EC2"

Client-side data storage: JavaScript database support

I remember the days when Javascript was considered a severe security vulnerability. Now we get client side javascript database support. Safari already implements it. Wicked!

Drools Flow adopts BPM Console

Kris Verlaenen, the Drools Flow lead, has successfully adopted the BPM Console for Drools.
This means you can now manage Drools Flow processes the same way you do in jBPM4.

That's great news. It shows that the initial design, decoupling the console from the engine has proven to be successful.

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