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Get started with Camunda and the Spring Framework

This tutorial guides you through your first steps of using Camunda Platform in a Spring web application.

Target Audience: In this tutorial we assume that you are familiar with the basics of Java web application development and the Spring Framework. We also assume that you have installed an Eclipse distribution and the Camunda Modeler.

Source Code

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Download as .zip or checkout the corresponding tag with Git.

In addition to this guide, the source code of the example project is also available on GitHub. You can directly download the whole project or clone it with git: 
git clone https://github.com/camunda/camunda-get-started-spring.git
To follow this guide, download the initial state or checkout the tag in the git repository: 
git checkout -f Start
or every step in between: 
git checkout -f Step-X
After every section in this guide you will find a box which contains a download link to the current state of the project and git instructions to checkout the current version of the repository.

You will be guided through the following steps:

Project Setup
Set up Spring web application as an Apache Maven Project inside Eclipse.
Embedded Process Engine Configuration
Configure an embedded process engine.
Spring Bean Service Task
Invoke a Spring Bean from a BPMN 2.0 Service Task.
Shared Process Engine
Use a shared process engine for a web application using the Spring Framework.