Joram Barrez

Joram is an all-around software engineer with a keen interest in anything that is slightly related to software development. After working with Ruby on Rails at the university, he became a java consultant specializing in jBPM which later led him to joining the jBPM project as JBoss employee. He left JBoss for starting the Activiti project together with Tom Baeyens (also ex-JBoss) at Alfresco .Besides Activiti, he is also heavily involved with iOS development and the workflow features for the Alfresco Mobile app.

Enterprise Java
Joram BarrezNovember 3rd, 2016
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Running Flowable on CockroachDB
What is CockroachDB? CockroachDB is a project I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while now with great interest.…
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Enterprise Java
Joram BarrezSeptember 5th, 2016
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How to use transient variables in Activiti
A feature that has been requested quite a bit – transient variables – has landed in the Beta3 of Activiti…
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Core Java
Joram BarrezJuly 25th, 2016
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Benchmarking the message queue based Activiti Async Executor
A bit of history One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how Activiti is being used in some…
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Enterprise Java
Joram BarrezJune 16th, 2016
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How the Secure Scripting in Activiti works
One of the prominent features of the recent Activiti 5.21.0 release is ‘secure scripting’. The way to enable and use this…
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Enterprise Java
Joram BarrezOctober 7th, 2015
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Multi-Tenancy with separate database schemas in Activiti
One feature request we’ve heard in the past is that of running the Activiti engine in a multi-tenant way where…
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Enterprise Java
Joram BarrezSeptember 18th, 2015
0 263
Pluggable persistence in Activiti 6
In the past years, we’ve often heard the request (both from community and our customers) on how to swap the…
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Core Java
Joram BarrezSeptember 11th, 2015
0 96
The performance impact of scripting in processes
We often see people using the scripting (for example in a service task, execution listener, etc.) for various purposes. Using scripts versus…
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Software Development
Joram BarrezSeptember 9th, 2015
0 211
Activiti 6: An Evolution of the Core Engine
This article describes the changes with regards to the Activiti core engine and how version 6 differs from version 5. All…
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Software Development
Joram BarrezOctober 22nd, 2014
3 114
My Five Rules for Remote Working
A couple of weeks ago, there was a stir (again) about remote working and its succes and/or failure: it was reported…
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