BPM Configuration Reference

This page provides details on the process components you configure for BPM. Some of this information is pulled directly from mule-bpm.xsd and is cached. For more information on BPM, see BPM Module Reference.

Process

A process backed by a BPMS such as jBPM.

Table 1. Attributes of <process…>
Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
bpms-ref	string	no		An optional reference to the underlying BPMS. This is used to disambiguate in the case where more than one BPMS is available.
processName	string	yes		The logical name of the process. This is used to look up the running process instance from the BPMS.
processDefinition	string	yes		The resource containing the process definition, this will be used to deploy the process to the BPMS. The resource type depends on the BPMS being used.
processIdField	string	no		This field will be used to correlate Mule messages with processes. If not specified, it will default to `MULE_BPM_PROCESS_ID`.

Table 2. Child Elements of <process…>
Name	Cardinality	Description

jBPM

Table 3. Attributes of <jBPM…>
Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	name (no spaces)	no		An optional name for the BPMS. Refer to this from the "bpms-ref" field of your process in case you have more than one BPMS available.
configurationResource	string	no		The configuration file for jBPM, default is "jbpm.cfg.xml" if not specified.
processEngine-ref	string	no		A reference to the already-initialized jBPM ProcessEngine. This is useful if you use Spring to configure your jBPM instance. Note that the "configurationResource" attribute will be ignored in this case.

Table 4. Child Element of <jBPM…>
Name	Cardinality	Description

Exception Strategy

See Exception Strategy Configuration Reference.

Entry Point Resolver

See Entry Point Resolver Configuration Reference.