From BPMN (STP BPMN Editor) to BPEL

[miketech]

Hi,

I am drawing my BPMN diagrams with the Eclipse SOA Tools Project BPMN Editor. Do you know a recommend way to get this diagram to BPEL so that it can be run within JBoss?

I've read that JBoss is BPEL 2.0 compliant, thus if I find a solution to transform BPMN to BPEL and refine it with the Eclipse BPEL Editor it should be able to run the process within BPEL. Or are there any problems I haven't seen yet?

Greetings

Mike

[kukeltje]

"miketech" wrote:
I am drawing my BPMN diagrams with the Eclipse SOA Tools Project BPMN Editor. Do you know a recommend way to get this diagram to BPEL so that it can be run within JBoss?

JBoss is a company, it does not 'run' anything. JBoss jBPM BPEL is WS-BPEL 2.0 compliant and should be able to run WS-BPEL 2.0 compliant definitions

"miketech" wrote:
I've read that JBoss is BPEL 2.0 compliant, thus if I find a solution to transform BPMN to BPEL and refine it with the Eclipse BPEL Editor it should be able to run the process within BPEL.

If the refinement is WS-BPEL 2.0 compliant it should and you run a WS-BPEL 2.0 compliant 'engine' like JBoss jBPM BPEL somewhere e.g. on JBoss AS 4.2

"miketech" wrote:
Or are there any problems I haven't seen yet?

Making sure the outcome of the reninement is WS-BPEL 2.0 compliant ;-)

Otherwise I have no idea.

[aguizar]

Straight from the STP forum

The BPMN editor is a pure garphical editor with no generation capabilities. Intalio is layering the BPMN editor to create BPEL processes and WSDL services. The product is available at http://bpms.intalio.com for free.

I don't see how a BPMN editor with no BPEL/XPDL/whatever generation capabilities is useful. Anyway... I think you'd be better off working on the BPEL designer directly.

[miketech]

Hi Alex,

of course BPMN is not for creating an executable process. It's more for creating an abstract business process which is being transformed into bpel code and then further refined.

Greetings

Mike