J-Fall 2023: Process-oriented system integration – Bernd Ruecker

Companies need to automate processes. Therefore they need to integrate various systems, people, and devices. In the past, many initiatives to process automation struggled (maybe you remember BPM and SOA?) and local automations were applied instead, only automating certain tasks from within a process. At the same time, business departments started their own automation endeavors using low-code tooling, leading to their own challenges that very often arrived in IT sooner or later. In this talk, I want to quickly recap the status quo of process automation possibilities from the developer’s point of view. I want to describe the role of process orchestration and make it concrete by some live coding using Java, Spring, and Camunda (without making it an advertorial for Camunda of course). At the same time, I want to sketch possibilities to leverage all of our modern achievements (like Cloud, SaaS, Github, changed developer experiences) to make orchestration easier and more fun to use. Expect a bit of live coding, but also real-life stories.