What does Activiti do for me as a Java developer?
First, you as a developer get business intelligence and audit logs features for free. And with building your solution on business processes, Activiti will help developers to structure their software better. Think about user tasks, external systems and timers that need to be managed. And then try to think how you like your transaction boundaries of your application. That puzzle can be a challenge in enterprise applications. Building that kind of features becomes a lot easier when structuring an application around a business process. Managing wait states, timers and asynchronous continuations becomes peanuts. A business process can express that structure a lot more compact then working with the fundamental instruments that the Java platform offers like JDBC and JMS. And Activiti makes sure that you can easily link in Java or scripting for jobs that are better done in other languages.
