Chapter 1. Red Hat Fuse and Red Hat Process Automation Manager

Red Hat Fuse is a distributed, cloud-native integration platform that is part of an agile integration solution. Its distributed approach enables teams to deploy integrated services where required. Fuse has the flexibility to service diverse users, including integration experts, application developers, and business users, each with their own choice of deployment, architecture, and tooling. The API-centric, container-based architecture decouples services so they can be created, extended, and deployed independently. The result is an integration solution that supports collaboration across the enterprise.

Red Hat Process Automation Manager is the Red Hat platform for creating business automation applications and microservices. It enables enterprise business and IT users to document, simulate, manage, automate, and monitor business processes and policies. Red Hat Process Automation Manager is designed to empower business and IT users to collaborate more effectively, so business applications can be changed easily and quickly.

You can install Red Hat Fuse on the Apache Karaf container platform or Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and then install and configure Red Hat Process Automation Manager in that container.

Important

For the version of Red Hat Fuse that Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.6 supports, see Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7 Supported Configurations.

1.1. Red Hat Process Automation Manager Karaf features

The following table lists Red Hat Process Automation Manager Karaf features.

FeatureDescription

drools-module

Contains the core and compiler of Drools, used to create KIE bases and KIE sessions from plain DRL. It also contains the implementation of the executable model. Uses Drools for rules evaluation, without requiring persistence, processes, or decision tables.

drools-template

Contains the Drools templates.

drools-jpa

Uses Drools for rules evaluation with persistence and transactions, but without requiring processes or decision tables. The drools-jpa feature includes the drools-module, however you might also need to install the droolsjbpm-hibernate feature, or ensure that a compatible hibernate bundle is installed.

drools-decisiontable

Uses Drools with decision tables.

jbpm

Uses jBPM. The jbpm feature includes the drools-module and drools-jpa. You might need to install the droolsjbpm-hibernate feature, or ensure that a compatible hibernate bundle is installed.

jbpm and jbpm-human-task

Uses jBPM with human tasks.

jbpm-workitems-camel

Provides the jbpm-workitems-camel component.

Core engine JARs and kie-ci

Uses Red Hat Process Automation Manager with the KIE scanner (kie-ci) to download kJARs from a Maven repository.

kie-camel

Provides the kie-camel component, an Apache Camel endpoint that integrates Fuse with Red Hat Process Automation Manager.

kie-spring

Installs the kie-spring component that enables you to configure listeners to KIE sessions using XML tags.