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17. Exploring the Dev-UI Console in More Detail

The biggest change from previous versions of the jBPM runtime is that everything used to have to be built in KIE Server and Business Central required a build, deploy and multiple user changes to validate a process. Now with the assistance of Kogito and Quarkus, we can combine a more developer-focused improvement to the pattern of delivering and testing processes while we are building them.

17.1 Setting Up the Development Environment

  1. Open a terminal from the desktop.

    Open Terminal

  2. Clone the following repository using the terminal: 

    git clone https://github.com/timwuthenow/cc-application-approval-starter

  3. Navigate to the folder and open Visual Studio Code: 

    cd cc-application-approval-starter
code .

  4. When Visual Studio Code opens, you will have the workspace and a terminal. In the terminal within VS Code, type: 

    mvn quarkus:dev

  5. Open the Browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/q/dev-ui. This will feature all of the extensions and capabilities that are on the current process project.

    Dev-UI Home

17.2 Exploring the Dev-UI

  1. Locate and click on Process Instances in the jBPM Quarkus Dev UI add-on.

    Open Process Instances

  2. To start a new process to test, click the Process Definitions tab and then click the cc_application_approval's play button.

    Start process definition

  3. A form is autogenerated. Fill in sample data and click Start.

    Tag Value
    Age 20
    Annual Income 20000
    Credit Score 300
    Is student? Checked
    Name Angelito

    Sample Input

  4. After submitting, a green banner will be opened allowing you to go to the Process Details. Open the process details, and check the process instance progress, and the variable values.

    Successful Submission

  5. Here you will be able to see what was done in the process, a very simple straight through process that ran a bunch of script tasks. In the next section we’re going to improve this!

    STP Process

  6. For now, close the browser that you've navigated to the dev-ui as we're going to do more work on it in VS Code and then look at it again when we finish. This is very important for now if you leave mvn quarkus:dev up as changes and the active connection will currently break the live coding. However, reaccessing is very quick!

Last update: 2024-10-03