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Chapter 8. Maven settings and repositories for Red Hat Process Automation Manager

You can use an external Maven repository to deploy a project. When you create a project, Business Central uses the Maven repositories that are configured for Business Central. You can use the Maven global or user settings to direct all Red Hat Process Automation Manager projects to retrieve dependencies from the public Red Hat Process Automation Manager repository by modifying the following files:

  • The Maven settings.xml file.
  • The Maven project object model (POM) file (pom.xml).

For more information, see Packaging and deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager project.

8.1. Configuring Maven using the project configuration file (pom.xml)

To use Maven for building and managing your Red Hat Process Automation Manager projects, you must create and configure the POM file (pom.xml). This file holds configuration information for your project. For more information, see Apache Maven Project.

Procedure

  1. Generate a Maven project. A pom.xml file is automatically generated when you create a Maven project.
  2. Edit the pom.xml file to add more dependencies and new repositories.

    Maven downloads all of the JAR files and the dependent JAR files from the Maven repository when you compile and package your project.

Find the schema for the pom.xml file at http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd. For more information about POM files, see Apache Maven Project POM.

8.2. Modifying the Maven settings file

Red Hat Process Automation Manager uses Maven settings.xml file to configure it’s Maven execution. You must create and activate a profile in the settings.xml file and declare the Maven repositories used by your Red Hat Process Automation Manager projects.

Procedure

  1. In the settings.xml file, declare the repositories that your Red Hat Process Automation Manager projects use. Usually, this is either the online Red Hat Process Automation Manager Maven repository or the Red Hat Process Automation Manager Maven repository that you download from the Red Hat Customer Portal and any repositories for custom artifacts that you want to use.
  2. Ensure that Business Central or Process Server is configured to use the settings.xml file, for example by specifying the kie.maven.settings.custom=<path_to_settings.xml> property.

For information about the Maven settings.xml file, see the Apache Maven Project Setting Reference.

8.3. Adding Maven dependencies for Red Hat Process Automation Manager

To use the correct Maven dependencies in your Red Hat Process Automation Manager project, add the Red Hat Business Automation bill of materials (BOM) files to the project’s pom.xml file. The Red Hat Business Automation BOM applies to both Red Hat Decision Manager and Red Hat Process Automation Manager. When you add the BOM files, the correct versions of transitive dependencies from the provided Maven repositories are included in the project.

For more information about the Red Hat Business Automation BOM, see What is the mapping between Red Hat Process Automation Manager and the Maven library version?.

Procedure

  1. Declare the Red Hat Business Automation BOM in the pom.xml file:

    <dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
      <dependency>
       <groupId>com.redhat.ba</groupId>
       <artifactId>ba-platform-bom</artifactId>
       <version>7.2.0.GA-redhat-00002</version>
       <type>pom</type>
       <scope>import</scope>
      </dependency>
     </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
    <!-- Your dependencies -->
    </dependencies>
  2. Declare dependencies required for your project in the <dependencies> tag. After you import the product BOM into your project, the versions of the user-facing product dependencies are defined so you do not need to specify the <version> sub-element of these <dependency> elements. However, you must use the <dependency> element to declare dependencies which you want to use in your project.
  3. For standalone projects that are not authored in Business Central, specify all dependencies required for your projects. In projects that you author in Business Central, the basic process engine dependencies are provided automatically by Business Central.

    • For a basic Red Hat Process Automation Manager project, declare the following dependencies, depending on the features that you want to use:

      Embedded process engine dependencies

      <!-- Public KIE API -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.kie</groupId>
        <artifactId>kie-api</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Core dependencies for process engine -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-flow</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <artifactId>jbpm-flow-builder</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-bpmn2</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-runtime-manager</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-persistence-jpa</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-query-jpa</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-audit</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-kie-services</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Dependency needed for default WorkItemHandler implementations. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-workitems-core</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Logging dependency. You can use any logging framework compatible with slf4j. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
        <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
        <version>${logback.version}</version>
      </dependency>

    • For a Red Hat Process Automation Manager project that uses CDI, you typically declare the following dependencies:

      CDI-enabled process engine dependencies

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.kie</groupId>
        <artifactId>kie-api</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-kie-services</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jbpm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbpm-services-cdi</artifactId>
      </dependency>

    • For a basic Red Hat Process Automation Manager project, declare the following dependencies:

      Embedded process engine dependencies

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-compiler</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Dependency for persistence support. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-persistence-jpa</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Dependencies for decision tables, templates, and scorecards.
      For other assets, declare org.drools:drools-workbench-models-* dependencies. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-decisiontables</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-templates</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.drools</groupId>
        <artifactId>drools-scorecards</artifactId>
      </dependency>
      
      <!-- Dependency for loading KJARs from a Maven repository using KieScanner. -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.kie</groupId>
        <artifactId>kie-ci</artifactId>
      </dependency>

    • To use the Process Server, declare the following dependencies:

      Client application Process Server dependencies

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.kie.server</groupId>
        <artifactId>kie-server-client</artifactId>
      </dependency>

    • To create a remote client for Red Hat Process Automation Manager, declare the following dependency:

      Client dependency

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.uberfire</groupId>
      </dependency>

    • When creating a JAR file that includes assets, such as rules and process definitions, specify the packaging type for your Maven project as kjar and use org.kie:kie-maven-plugin to process the kjar packaging type located under the <project> element. In the following example, ${kie.version} is the Maven library version listed in What is the mapping between Red Hat Process Automation Manager and the Maven library version?:

      <packaging>kjar</packaging>
      <build>
       <plugins>
        <plugin>
         <groupId>org.kie</groupId>
         <artifactId>kie-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>${kie.version}</version>
         <extensions>true</extensions>
        </plugin>
       </plugins>
      </build>