EKumi: an extensible workflow management system

EKumi is a workflow management system licensed under the Eclipse Public License 2.0.

EKumi allows to automate the execution of chains of tasks. Its bigger strength is its extensibility as it allows anyone to provide and share new:

• workflow editors,
• scripting languages,
• datatypes,
• execution hooks.

Please follow Getting Started chapters to learn how to create and execute a workflow using EKumi’s built-in features.

Table of Contents

Getting Started

• Main Concepts
• Install EKumi
  • On top of an existing Eclipse IDE installation
  • As a standalone product
• Create a new Workflow project
  • Use the New Workflow Project wizard
  • Enable scripting languages
  • Choose a representation
  • Create the project
• Design an activity
  • Open the diagram editor
  • Understand the diagram editor
  • Create a Greeting task
• Execute an activity
  • Link the task to the start node
  • Launch the execution
• Good Practices
  • Use meaningful names

Available Representations

• EKumi Default Representation
  • A BPMN-inspired editor
  • Use Cases
  • Features
  • Impacts on project
  • Understand the diagram editor
  • Create a new task
  • Link two tasks
  • Launch an activity

Available Scripting Languages

• Java
  • Impacts on project
  • Script implementation
  • Dependency Injection

Extend EKumi

• Monitor Executions
  • Why monitoring executions?
  • How to register a new execution hook?
  • How to implement a new execution hook?
• Add a new Scripting Language
  • What is a scripting language?
  • How to add a new scripting language?
  • How to use the new scripting language within the workflow diagram editor?
• Add a new Data Type
  • What is a data type?
  • How to add a new datatype?
  • How to use the new datatype within the workflow diagram editor?
• Add a new Specification
  • What is a specification?
  • How to add a new specification?
  • How to integrate the new specification within the IDE?
• Add a new Representation
  • What is a representation?
  • How to add a new representation?
  • How to integrate the new representation within the IDE?
• Share an Activity

Java API

• Build a workflow
  • Create an activity
  • Bind activities
  • Create a sequence of activities
  • Create parallel activities
  • Create loop of activities
• Execute a Workflow
  • Launch a background execution
  • Listen for events