Executable BPMN in the context of Spring Boot

Today, even small and medium-sized enterprises have to react quickly to changes in the environment and adapt their processes to new situations in a timely manner. This is where the widely used standard notation BPMN comes in. Thanks to its easy-to-understand symbols, meaningful visual models of individual business processes can be quickly created in cooperation between the business departments and representatives of IT. The resulting BPMN models can then be transferred into executable processes in a further step, which can be run on a workflow engine such as Camunda. The workflow engine relieves the developers of the implementation of the control logic of the respective process, i.e. they can concentrate on the implementation of the business logic (of the individual tasks). In addition, common workflow engines typically offer further functionalities out-of-the-box, such as user and rights management, monitoring, simple process deployment, etc. This makes it possible to realise such projects much faster and to implement them more efficiently. Thus, such projects can be accomplished much faster and maintained better than with traditional approaches without a workflow engine. We use the Community Edition of Camunda and embed it in a Spring Boot environment, which means that no additional web or application servers etc. are necessary for the execution of BPMN processes.