This chapter covers
本章介紹
- Introducing the world of BPM
- 引入BPM世界
- Designing processes with BPMN 2.0
- 用BPMN 2.0設計流程
- Implementing a BPMN 2.0 process with Activiti
- 用Activiti實現BPMN 2.0流程
We are about to start our journey in designing business processes with BPMN 2.0 and implementing these processes with the open source BPM platform Activiti. But before we explore these topics, we need some background into business process management (BPM).
我們即將開始采用BPMN 2.0設計業務流程，并用開源BPM平臺Activiti實現這些流程的旅程。但是，在我們開發這些主題之前，我們需要了解一些業務流程管理（BPM，Business Progress Management）的背景知識.
The definition of business process management (BPM) is really broad, and BPM vendors are broadening the term even further every day. Because we can’t (and don’t want) to cover the full spectrum of what is covered by BPM, this chapter defines the boundaries what we’ll cover in this book. You’ll experience that this book is not about the theory behind for example business processes, business rules, business activity monitoring and straight through processing. This book will show how to develop and deploy business processes with BPMN 2.0 and the Activiti process engine. So this chapter shows we’ll talk No Fluff just Stuff.
業務流程管理（BPM）的定義實際上相當寬泛，況且BPM供應商甚至每天都在擴展這個術語。因為我們不能（也不想）包含BPM所涵蓋的全部范圍，所以本章定義了我們在本書所涵蓋的邊界。你將親身體驗，本書不是關于示例業務流程，業務規則，業務活動監視和直接處理背后的理論。本書將展示如何采用BPMN 2.0和Activiti流程引擎開發和部署業務流程。所以本章展示了我們將談論的話題：只是沒有絨毛的東西。
But before we dive into code examples starting in section 1.5, we’ll first take a look at the topic of BPM. Once we have a good idea of this broad world, you’ll be introduced in the BPMN 2.0 specification and why it’s such an important industry standard. Then the theoretical foundation for this book is presented and we’ll look into BPMN 2.0 from a pure developers perspective. That’ll provide a good introduction before we finally start developing a simple process and run it with the Activiti process engine.
但是在我們嘗試鉆研在1.5節開始的代碼示例之前，我們將先來看看BPM主題。一旦我們有了這個廣闊世界的好主意，那么將介紹BPMN 2.0規范，以及為什么它是一個如此重要的工業標準。然后提出本書的理論基礎。我們將一個純開發者的角度審視BPMN 2.0。在我們最終啟動開發一個簡單流程并用Activiti流程引擎來運行它之前，那將提供一個良好的開端。
But we can’t start developing BPMN 2.0 processes before we get a clear understanding of BPM and the wide range of business theories, but also different technologies it covers.
但是，在我們清楚理解BPM和廣泛的業務理論以及所涉及的不同技術之前，我們不可以開始開發BPMN 2.0流程的過程。