How to go from https://start.camunda.com/ to a Process Application?

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Answering my own question (though happy to hear if there is an easier way).

  1. Add the @EnableProcessApplication to the Spring-boot app class (this will disable camunda-spring-boot’s default resource location (the rest of the config stays the same AFAIK)
  2. Add a processes.xml in the META-INF dir. You can add an “empty” processes.xml - but note that the Camunda documentation is a bit wrong.
  3. You MUST add the resourceRootPath which should be a dir in your classpath (and it must not be the root - ie “/” won’t work).
  4. Put your process *.bpmn files in the subdir referred to by resourceRootPath
<process-application
  xmlns="http://www.camunda.org/schema/1.0/ProcessApplication"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <process-archive>
    <properties>
      <property name="isDeleteUponUndeploy">false</property>
      <property name="isScanForProcessDefinitions">true</property>
      <property name="resourceRootPath">some-dir-in-classpath</property>
    </properties>
  </process-archive>
</process-application>

I hope this helps someone avoid the headache I have been having the past 2 days.