diff --git a/connector-java/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java b/connector-java/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java
index 2f533fe..6eb24d8 100644
--- a/connector-java/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java
+++ b/connector-java/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java
@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.tuple;
 
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Properties;
-
 import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
 import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
 import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
@@ -23,6 +18,10 @@
 import io.zeebe.model.bpmn.BpmnModelInstance;
 import io.zeebe.test.ZeebeTestRule;
 import io.zeebe.test.util.TestUtil;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Properties;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Rule;
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ public class ExporterTest {
       Bpmn.createExecutableProcess("process")
           .startEvent("start")
           .sequenceFlowId("to-task")
-          .serviceTask("task", s -> s.zeebeTaskType("test").zeebeInput("$.foo", "$.bar"))
+          .serviceTask("task", s -> s.zeebeTaskType("test").zeebeInput("foo", "bar"))
           .sequenceFlowId("to-end")
           .endEvent("end")
           .done();
@@ -68,30 +67,19 @@ public void shouldExportWorkflowInstanceEvents() {
     final ITopic<byte[]> topic = hz.getTopic(CONFIGURATION.workflowInstanceTopic);
     topic.addMessageListener(new WorkflowInstanceEventListener(events::add));
 
-    client
-        .workflowClient()
-        .newDeployCommand()
-        .addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn")
-        .send()
-        .join();
+    client.newDeployCommand().addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn").send().join();
 
-    client
-        .workflowClient()
-        .newCreateInstanceCommand()
-        .bpmnProcessId("process")
-        .latestVersion()
-        .send()
-        .join();
+    client.newCreateInstanceCommand().bpmnProcessId("process").latestVersion().send().join();
 
     TestUtil.waitUntil(() -> events.size() >= 4);
 
     assertThat(events)
         .extracting(r -> tuple(r.getElementId(), r.getMetadata().getIntent()))
         .containsSequence(
-            tuple("process", "ELEMENT_READY"),
+            tuple("process", "ELEMENT_ACTIVATING"),
             tuple("process", "ELEMENT_ACTIVATED"),
-            tuple("start", "START_EVENT_OCCURRED"),
-            tuple("to-task", "SEQUENCE_FLOW_TAKEN"));
+            tuple("start", "ELEMENT_ACTIVATING"),
+            tuple("start", "ELEMENT_ACTIVATED"));
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -101,12 +89,7 @@ public void shouldExportDeploymentEvents() {
     final ITopic<byte[]> topic = hz.getTopic(CONFIGURATION.deploymentTopic);
     topic.addMessageListener(new DeploymentEventListener(events::add));
 
-    client
-        .workflowClient()
-        .newDeployCommand()
-        .addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn")
-        .send()
-        .join();
+    client.newDeployCommand().addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn").send().join();
 
     TestUtil.waitUntil(() -> events.size() >= 2);
 
@@ -123,25 +106,22 @@ public void shouldExportJobEvents() {
     final ITopic<byte[]> topic = hz.getTopic(CONFIGURATION.jobTopic);
     topic.addMessageListener(new JobEventListener(events::add));
 
-    client
-        .workflowClient()
-        .newDeployCommand()
-        .addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn")
-        .send()
-        .join();
+    client.newDeployCommand().addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn").send().join();
 
     client
-        .workflowClient()
         .newCreateInstanceCommand()
         .bpmnProcessId("process")
         .latestVersion()
-        .payload(Collections.singletonMap("foo", 123))
+        .variables(Collections.singletonMap("foo", 123))
         .send()
         .join();
 
     TestUtil.waitUntil(() -> events.size() >= 1);
 
-    assertThat(events).hasSize(1).extracting(r -> r.getMetadata().getIntent()).containsExactly("CREATED");
+    assertThat(events)
+        .hasSize(1)
+        .extracting(r -> r.getMetadata().getIntent())
+        .containsExactly("CREATED");
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -151,23 +131,15 @@ public void shouldExportIncidentEvents() {
     final ITopic<byte[]> topic = hz.getTopic(CONFIGURATION.incidentTopic);
     topic.addMessageListener(new IncidentEventListener(events::add));
 
-    client
-        .workflowClient()
-        .newDeployCommand()
-        .addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn")
-        .send()
-        .join();
+    client.newDeployCommand().addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn").send().join();
 
-    client
-        .workflowClient()
-        .newCreateInstanceCommand()
-        .bpmnProcessId("process")
-        .latestVersion()
-        .send()
-        .join();
+    client.newCreateInstanceCommand().bpmnProcessId("process").latestVersion().send().join();
 
     TestUtil.waitUntil(() -> events.size() >= 1);
 
-    assertThat(events).hasSize(1).extracting(r -> r.getMetadata().getIntent()).containsExactly("CREATED");
+    assertThat(events)
+        .hasSize(1)
+        .extracting(r -> r.getMetadata().getIntent())
+        .containsExactly("CREATED");
   }
 }
diff --git a/exporter/pom.xml b/exporter/pom.xml
index edd4ff7..39e860a 100644
--- a/exporter/pom.xml
+++ b/exporter/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>io.zeebe</groupId>
-			<artifactId>zb-exporter-api</artifactId>
+			<artifactId>zeebe-exporter-api</artifactId>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/exporter/src/main/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/exporter/HazelcastExporter.java b/exporter/src/main/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/exporter/HazelcastExporter.java
index ef84b60..e91fd2a 100644
--- a/exporter/src/main/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/exporter/HazelcastExporter.java
+++ b/exporter/src/main/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/exporter/HazelcastExporter.java
@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
 package io.zeebe.hazelcast.exporter;
 
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.EnumMap;
-
 import com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessageV3;
 import com.hazelcast.config.Config;
 import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
 import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
 import com.hazelcast.core.ITopic;
-import io.zeebe.exporter.context.Context;
-import io.zeebe.exporter.context.Controller;
+import io.zeebe.exporter.api.context.Context;
+import io.zeebe.exporter.api.context.Controller;
+import io.zeebe.exporter.api.record.Record;
+import io.zeebe.exporter.api.record.RecordMetadata;
+import io.zeebe.exporter.api.spi.Exporter;
 import io.zeebe.exporter.proto.RecordTransformer;
-import io.zeebe.exporter.record.Record;
-import io.zeebe.exporter.record.RecordMetadata;
-import io.zeebe.exporter.spi.Exporter;
 import io.zeebe.protocol.clientapi.RecordType;
 import io.zeebe.protocol.clientapi.ValueType;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.EnumMap;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 
 public class HazelcastExporter implements Exporter {
@@ -77,15 +76,14 @@ public void export(Record record) {
   private byte[] transformRecord(Record record) {
     final GeneratedMessageV3 dto = RecordTransformer.toProtobufMessage(record);
 
-      try (ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream())
-      {
-        dto.writeTo(outputStream);
-        return outputStream.toByteArray();
-      } catch (IOException ioe)
-      {
-        final String exceptionMsg = String.format("Failed to write %s to byte array output stream.", dto.toString());
-        logger.error(exceptionMsg, ioe);
-        throw new RuntimeException(exceptionMsg, ioe);
-      }
+    try (ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
+      dto.writeTo(outputStream);
+      return outputStream.toByteArray();
+    } catch (IOException ioe) {
+      final String exceptionMsg =
+          String.format("Failed to write %s to byte array output stream.", dto.toString());
+      logger.error(exceptionMsg, ioe);
+      throw new RuntimeException(exceptionMsg, ioe);
+    }
   }
 }
diff --git a/exporter/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java b/exporter/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java
index 45cdf07..bdd5423 100644
--- a/exporter/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java
+++ b/exporter/src/test/java/io/zeebe/hazelcast/ExporterTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package io.zeebe.hazelcast;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
-import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
 
 import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
 import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ public class ExporterTest {
       Bpmn.createExecutableProcess("process")
           .startEvent("start")
           .sequenceFlowId("to-task")
-          .serviceTask("task", s -> s.zeebeTaskType("test").zeebeInput("$.foo", "$.bar"))
+          .serviceTask("task", s -> s.zeebeTaskType("test"))
           .sequenceFlowId("to-end")
           .endEvent("end")
           .done();
@@ -62,12 +61,7 @@ public void shouldExportEventsAsProtobuf() throws Exception {
     final ITopic<byte[]> topic = hz.getTopic(CONFIGURATION.deploymentTopic);
     topic.addMessageListener(m -> messages.add(m.getMessageObject()));
 
-    client
-        .workflowClient()
-        .newDeployCommand()
-        .addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn")
-        .send()
-        .join();
+    client.newDeployCommand().addWorkflowModel(WORKFLOW, "process.bpmn").send().join();
 
     TestUtil.waitUntil(() -> messages.size() > 0);
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a082c53..ce45d10 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<name>Zeebe Hazelcast Root</name>
@@ -16,9 +18,9 @@
 	</parent>
 
 	<properties>
-		<version.zeebe>0.14.0</version.zeebe>
+		<version.zeebe>0.17.0</version.zeebe>
 		<version.hazelcast>3.11</version.hazelcast>
-		<version.exporter.protobuf>0.1.0</version.exporter.protobuf>
+		<version.exporter.protobuf>0.4.0</version.exporter.protobuf>
 		<version.jackson>2.9.6</version.jackson>
 
 		<!-- release parent settings -->
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@
 
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>io.zeebe</groupId>
-				<artifactId>zb-bom</artifactId>
+				<artifactId>zeebe-bom</artifactId>
 				<version>${version.zeebe}</version>
 				<scope>import</scope>
 				<type>pom</type>
@@ -69,16 +71,19 @@
 				<version>${version.hazelcast}</version>
 			</dependency>
 
+
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>junit</groupId>
 				<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
 				<version>4.12</version>
+				<scope>test</scope>
 			</dependency>
 
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
 				<artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
 				<version>3.10.0</version>
+				<scope>test</scope>
 			</dependency>
 
 			<dependency>