Is 'actiBPM' the best plugin for IntelliJ IDEA when I using 'Activiti'?

Question

I am using 'Activiti' in my project. And a few days ago, I changed my IDE from Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA. 'Activiti' has a very useful and friendly plugin for Eclipse which is named as 'Activiti Designer'. But I've found that the plugin 'actiBPM' for Intellij when using 'Activiti' is very hard-to-use, and not friendly at all. So, is there any better plugin I can use for IntelliJ when using 'Activiti'? Thank you.

Answer 1

This plug-in appears to be abandoned (didn't update since 2014). I'm afraid, there are no other plug-ins for that at the moment.

You can vote for this request:

• IDEA-104687 Activiti BPM support

Answer 2

There is another alternative today - plugin Activiti BPMN visualizer:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/15222-activiti-bpmn-visualizer

Features:

• Activiti BPMN dialect diagram visualization and editing
• Code navigation from BPMN to Spring beans
• Code navigation from BPMN diagram to XML
• Code completion for delegate expression and classes
• Refactoring propagation from Java to BPMN thanks to IntelliJ language injection (i.e. class renames will be captured in XML if any class is reference)

Feel free to raise bugs/feature requests at plugin the homepage:

https://github.com/valb3r/flowable-bpmn-intellij-plugin

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of this plugin

Answer 3

The built-in "JBoss jBPM" plugin has

• a graphical designer for jpdl (and Activiti *.bpmn20.xml) files with DnD, usages search, rename and inplace editing
• Completion, navigation, refactorings and highlighting inside jpdl xml editor
• Links to processes from class files

For usage details, see here. The plugin apparently requires IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2016.3.X or greater.

Another (or additional) option, mentioned in the IDEA-104687 Activiti BPM support feature request, is to use Camunda Modeler as an external tool.