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BPMN 2.0 for Liferay with using Activiti Plugin

This tutorial  explains how to model BPMN 2.0 processes with using Activiti designer to use them in Liferay via Activiti Plugin.

During this tutorial we will:

• Install Liferay and Prepare it to use Activiti Plugin;
• Install Activti Plugin to use BPMN 2.0 Workflows inside Liferay;
• Design simple BPMN 2.0 process in Activiti Designer. As Example we will use simple "Single Approver" workflow;
• Deploy this process into Liferay and configure Liferay to use it for Web-Content Publishing;
• Play with it - try to make changes in web-content and see how publishing goes by out process and different tasks assigned to different users.

To follow this tutorial you will need:

• Have some expereince in working with Eclipse - since Activiti Designer works as Eclipse Plugin and this tutorial not covered questions like how to install Eclipse or how to install plugin into Eclipse;
• It is nice to have some expereince in Liferay - but not strongly required - I hope this tutorial explains well major step.

I hope this tutorial will be interesting for people:

• Who has expereince in Acitiviti (or BPMN 2.0 modelling in general) to see how it may be used in some system like Liferay;
• Who has expereince in Liferay to see how it is possible to use BPMN 2.0 workflow engine instead of default Kaleo;
• For people who hasn't expereince neiver in Activiti nor in Liferay but wanted to see how Workflows may be used in CMS system.