通过名为的XML文件配置activiti.cfg.xml（使用Spring样式构建流程引擎，则不适用）
获得a的最简单方法ProcessEngine是使用org.activiti.engine.ProcessEngines类
ProcessEngine processEngine = ProcessEngines.getDefaultProcessEngine()
这将activiti.cfg.xml在类路径中查找文件，并根据该文件中的配置构造引擎。以下代码段显示了示例配置
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.StandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration">
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:h2:mem:activiti;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=1000" />
<property name="jdbcDriver" value="org.h2.Driver" />
<property name="jdbcUsername" value="sa" />
<property name="jdbcPassword" value="" />
<property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
<property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="false" />
<property name="asyncExecutorEnabled" value="true" />
<property name="asyncExecutorActivate" value="false" />
<property name="mailServerHost" value="mail.my-corp.com" />
<property name="mailServerPort" value="5025" />
</bean>
</beans>
配置XML实际上是一个Spring配置。这并不意味着Activiti只能在Spring环境中使用！我们只是在内部利用Spring的解析和依赖注入功能来构建引擎
ProcessEngineConfiguration对象也可以使用配置文件以编程方式创建。也可以使用不同的bean id
ProcessEngineConfiguration.createProcessEngineConfigurationFromResourceDefault();
ProcessEngineConfiguration.createProcessEngineConfigurationFromResource(String resource);
ProcessEngineConfiguration.createProcessEngineConfigurationFromResource(String resource, String beanName);
ProcessEngineConfiguration.createProcessEngineConfigurationFromInputStream(InputStream inputStream);
ProcessEngineConfiguration.createProcessEngineConfigurationFromInputStream(InputStream inputStream, String beanName);
也可以不使用配置文件，并根据默认值创建配置（有关更多信息，请参阅不同的受支持类）
ProcessEngineConfiguration.createStandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration();
ProcessEngineConfiguration.createStandaloneInMemProcessEngineConfiguration();
如果需要，所有这些ProcessEngineConfiguration.createXXX()方法都返回ProcessEngineConfiguration可以进一步调整的方法。调用buildProcessEngine()操作后，ProcessEngine创建一个：
ProcessEngine processEngine = ProcessEngineConfiguration.createStandaloneInMemProcessEngineConfiguration()
.setDatabaseSchemaUpdate(ProcessEngineConfiguration.DB_SCHEMA_UPDATE_FALSE)
.setJdbcUrl("jdbc:h2:mem:my-own-db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=1000")
.setAsyncExecutorEnabled(true)
.setAsyncExecutorActivate(false)
.buildProcessEngine();
