This section provides an overview of the main new features,
improvements and changes in this release of AquaLogic BPM
Enterprise (all editions).
New features
- There is a new Configuration Wizard which provides a
simple way for configuring a complete ALBPM Enterprise
installation. It covers the most common configuration tasks,
including: creation of Directory Service database, creation of
Engine definition and database, complete creation of WebLogic
domain, and deployment of a sample project.
- ALBPM Directory Service can be configured in a
Hybrid configuration where authentication and
authorization can be delegated to Microsoft Active Directory
or Sun One Directory Service while the rest of the metadata
resides in a transactional RDBMS. This avoids the need for
replication of participants and entitlements data.
- ALBPM now includes JDBC drivers for the most
popular DBMS. This means you can integrate with Oracle, DB2
and Microsoft SQL Server right out of the box.
- ALBPM RSS Feeds Web Application allows end users to
participate in business processes using their RSS Reader of
choice being able to authentication and register with a
specific view RSS Feed. Each View accessible through
WorkSpace can be accessed from an RSS Reader like
Outlook.
- PAPI WebService 1.0 has been deprecated in favor of the
new PAPI WebService 2.0. PAPI-WS 1.0 is accessible through
ALBPM WorkSpace while PAPI-WS 2.0 is accessible through its
own new Web Application (papiws). This new version is
functionally equivalent to the native Java PAPI, and adheres to
the WS-Security specification using the UserNameToken Profile
implementation as well as HTTP Basic Authentication.
- Native integration with AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6. You can
now easily consume ALSB services from ALBPM and also register
a business process in ALSB. In addition, a Custom Transport
has been implemented over RMI to enforce security and
transaction propagation when ALSB and ALBPM run on the same
domain. This transport is provided as an Enterprise
Application (.ear) which serves as a plugin for ALSB.
- Web Services in ALBPM now include support for WS-Security,
Document-Literal style and WS-I compliance.
Changes and Improvements
- Configuring ALBPM Directory Service purely on top of LDAP
provider is no longer possible.
- ALBPM project directories do not use the
.fpr extension anymore.
- The Directory configuration file
directory.properties is now XML-based
and changes its name to
directory.xml.
- ALBPM JSR-168 Portlets have been deprecated in favor of
the new WorkSpace deployable in WebLogic Portal (WLP) 10.0 and
ALUI 6.1MP1. This new interface matches the WorkSpace
functionality as well as supporting SSO.
- It is now simpler to deploy ALBPM projects on WebLogic
and WebSphere editions of ALBPM Engine. It is no longer
necessary to generate and deploy an EAR file for each ALBPM
project. Only the Engine EAR needs to reside in the J2EE
container. The Engine application dynamically loads the
project models and executable code from the Directory
Service.
- ALBPM WorkSpace Extensions (for integration with ALUI) is
now included with ALBPM Enterprise. This consolidates the
installation and setup on a single install package.