Camunda BPM Platform Loan Assessment Process Lab

The lab is built using the Loan Assessment process as described in Chapter 9 of the textbook “Fundamentals of Business Process Management” (Springer, 2013) authored by M. Dumas, M. La Rosa, J. Mendling and H.A. Reijers. The complete process description can be downloaded from http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/wp-content/uploads/LoanAssessmentProcessD....
Camunda is an open source Java based BPM platform used primarily to automate Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 processes. It is built around the process engine component. The software is still in the development stage and some features are currentl being implemented. There are certain limitations to the use of BPMN 2.0 elements in Camunda. Some elements are dependent on specific modelling criteria, failing to satisfy which doesn’t produce the expected outputs. Keeping these hindrances in mind, the loan assessment process has been redesigned as and when needed to overcome them.
Constraints observed have been listed with necessary references and inputs from Camunda development team. Java and Groovy programming languages have been used to integrate some tasks into the loan assessment process.
This lab uses Camunda BPM Platform V7.1.0-Final on Apache Tomcat 7 server. A java development kit (JDK) version 6.0 or greater must be installed to run the software. Eclipse IDE is also required for the process designer.