What Flowable that?
Flowable written in Java is a lightweight business process engine. Flowable process instance process engine can be used to deploy BPMN 2.0 process definitions (XML industry standard for process definition), create these process definition, query, or access to the running process instances and historical data, and so on. This chapter will use an example you can use in your own development environment, and gradually introduce various concepts and API.
Flowable can be very flexible on your application / service / architecture. JAR form issued Flowable library application or service can be added to the embedded engine. JAR release form to make Flowable can be easily added to any Java environment: Java SE; servlet container Tomcat, Jetty Spring or the like; JBoss or WebSphere Java EE servers and the like, and so on. In addition, you can use Flowable REST API for HTTP calls. There are also many Flowable application (Flowable Modeler, Flowable Admin, Flowable IDM and Flowable Task), provides an example of UI directly available, you can use processes and tasks.
