This Ant will help you to deploy a group of JBPM processes without having to upload one by one. The only requirements are:

• Ant (preferably the latest one)
• A server that accepts PAR files.

Since I've been working with JBPM, whenever we create a process, we store each process in a different directory, each one including a JPDL, a GPD, a JPG, and an optional metadata.xml

This project includes a process-directory-example folder, to be used as a reference when getting your process directory ready.

There is a file in the root directory called properties.properties, update the process_directory with the path to your folder with the processes.

• process_directory=~/projects/MyJBPMProject/processes
• process_directory=C\:\\projects\\MyJBPMProject\\processes

The property process_name lets you specify the name of a process to deploy, you can also add wildcards to deploy several processes, and you can play with it to avoid deploying other processes.

• process_name=*
• process_name=process*
• process_name=processA

This is quiet straight forward, open properties.properties, modify:

• server=localhost -- IP or domain of the server
• port=8080 -- port...
• deployer=/jbpm-console/upload -- path to the service used to deploy PAR files.

After configuring everything as stated above, run the ant in this directory. First navigate to the path of your copy of jbpm-autodeploy, and run $ ant install

If you put JBPM AutoDeploy in Eclipse, you can do the following for the first time:

• Right Click build.xml
• Run As > Ant Build...
• Go to "Targets" Tab
• Enable "install" (ONLY install!!)
• Run

For the next time, you will be able to:

• Right Click build.xml
• Run As > Ant Build

Modify the property deploy_directory to the path of your PAR files, they will be uploaded one by one, and run $ ant deploy

BE CAREFUL! Some deployers require the PAR's (zipped) files be named named exactly as: processdefinition.xml, gpd.xml, processimage.jpg, and metadata.xml

$ ant build

• DeployProcessToServerTask -- Thanks to Kurt Stam @ Fresh Expresso
• Ant Contrib