I’m trying to set up Flowable UI 7.1 with a custom Spring Boot backend application, but I don’t understand how to do it.
I tried using the Docker image flowable/flowable-ui, but it comes with its own application inside the container. This means I can run my app locally, but I can’t handle the logic properly because the container doesn’t have my classes. I managed to fix it by replacing the embedded application with mine, and it works, but I want a simpler way to achieve this.
When I checked some tutorials, I noticed that people have both flowable-rest.war and flowable-ui.war from the downloaded sources on GitHub. However, I only have flowable-rest.war, which, as I understand, is just the Flowable Engine.
My question is: How can I install Flowable UI and connect it to my own Spring Boot application?
We’ve written this in the 7.0.0 Release Notes. The Flowable UI applications are no longer supported and released.
To quote from the release notes:
Another change implemented in version 7, involves the exclusion of the Flowable UI applications. While the task and admin applications were always referred to as example applications, the Flowable Modeler is an important tool to model cases, processes, and other model types. As you know the Flowable UI applications use a non-supported version of AngularJS and Oryx and were outdated for a longer time. Therefore, Flowable decided to build a new design tool with a completely new user experience to design CMMN and BPMN applications. A new version is implemented using React and ReactFlow (https://reactflow.dev/), and has been made available for free on https://trial.flowable.com/design. You can easily register for an account via Model in the cloud | Flowable Platform | Free. Note that there’s no limit on the number of CMMN, BPMN and DMN models that you can export, but after the 30-day trial there is a limit on all other model types like Data object models and Service registry models.