How to deploy a process archive (.par) file ?

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This tutorial has been written for an old version of jBPM which is now deprecated.

If you want to get started quickly with jBPM, we recommend the following quickstarts:

A process archive is a zip file containing information about a process graph.
The central file in the process archive is processdefinition.xmlwhich contain the structure of the process graph. The processdefinition.xml also contains information about actions and tasks. A process archive can also contain other process related files such as classes, ui-forms for tasks.

Here’s a sample process.par file structure.

process.par
│   gpd.xml
│   processdefinition.xml
│
└───classes
    │   hibernate.cfg.mysql.xml
    │   jbpm-mysql-ds.xml
    │
    └───com
        └───sample
            └───action
                    MessageActionHandler.class

You can deploy the process archive just any other archive (by default on the deploy folder of JBoss server). Once you’ve deployed it, you can start work on your process, creating new Process Instances.

Here’s the sample HelloWorld .par file generated by JBoss JBPM plugin:
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