This section provides an overview of the main new features, improvements and changes
in this release of Oracle BPM Enterprise.
New features
- New Ant tasks to rebuild the Oracle BPM web applications for container-security.
- Configuration Wizard adds option Generic JNDI to the
list of available LDAP servers. When using this option, you must provide a custom
configuration file defining the mapping of object classes, attributes and
filters. This new feature is also the new mechanism for integrating with AquaLogic
Interaction 6.5, replacing the old Identity Service.
- Configuration Wizard can now be run without user interaction ("silent
mode"). You specify all configuration values in an XML file.
- Oracle BPM client applications (including WorkSpace, PAPI-WS and custom PAPI
apps) are now able to connect to multiple environments (BPM Directories)
simultaneously.
- Standalone BPM Engine provides new Java interfaces to implement custom server-side
token validation.
- Added Sybase as a new provider for the Engine database and BPM Directory
database.
Changes and Improvements
- More information added for auditing of Business Rules, including who and when
a rule was modified.
- Updated bundled JDBC drivers to their latest version.
- Updated support for latest version of Oracle Service Bus (formerly AquaLogic Service Bus).
- Email queue size of the Engine is now configurable from Process Administrator
(in addition to the existing system property "fuego.engine.maxMailQueueSize").
- The Engine now logs warning messages when it detects rogue threads. A new
preference allows the administrator to disable automatic re-starts when the
Maximum Number of Rogue Component Executions is reached. In
addition, in the case of an automatic re-start the Engine now logs a complete
thread dump.
- Simplified procedures for deploying BPM WorkSpace on WebLogic Portal. BPM
Process Administrator now generates the WorkSpace EAR file as a WebLogic Portal library
module.
- Authentication information added to external resources of type JMS (Java Messaging System).
BPM WorkSpace changes
- WorkSpace provides a new edit mode which allows users
to change the configuration and layout of panels.
- Users of BPM WorkSpace can configure and save the layout of panels. A new
tabbed interface allows you to define multiple pages, each with its own set of
panels. You can export the layout configuration to an XML file and re-import it
on a different environment or as a different user. Administrators can define
layouts for all users in a certain Role.
- You can export the data in the Worklist panel to PDF (Portable Document
Format) or CSV (Comma-Separated values).
- You can see a chart representation of the distribution of items in the
Worklist panel.
- WorkSpace includes the following new panels:
- Task Panel: Renders the execution of interactive
tasks within the panel, instead of using the default modal dialogs.
- Dashboard Display Panel: Provides a way to
display Dashboards within a Panel.
- View Chart Panel: Provides predefined graphical reports
about process performance, work items distributions and workload.
- Application Panel: This panel contains an
application (the execution of a Global Interactive). Applications can
respond to work item selections or run independently.
- The user can now do re-assignment operations on multiple instances at once.
- The Business Rules editor shows additional auditing information, including
who and when a rule was modified.
- WorkSpace now (optionally) stores session-specific information as
client-side cookies. This allows load-balancing on a cluster environment without
affecting the user experience.
- This new version of WorkSpace provides a simplified and streamlined
interface, focused on usability and ease of use.