What is Activiti and Installing Activiti plugin to eclipse

What is Activiti?? Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins.

It helps to build and structure the solutions on business processes.

A business process is defined as a set of activities and tasks that, once completed, will accomplish an organizational goal. Here are some examples for business processes of an organization.

• A billing process 
•  A risk management process 
•  An invoicing process 
•  An product assembly process 
•  A quality assurance process

Lets see how to install Activiti plugin on eclipse

1. click Help -> Install New Software... in eclipse IDE
2. Click on  Add button to add a new repository
3. Give Activiti BPMN 2.0 designer as the Name and http://activiti.org/designer/update/ as the Location.
   
4. Then Click  OK and then click finish
5. Continue according to further instructions from eclipse

After successfully installed the Activiti plugin eclipse will ask for restart. After the restart you will be able to see Activiti project under project types.

It will create a Maven project with pom file,which will have all the Activiti related jars and dependencies.