How to integrate a jBPM engine on JBoss 5.0.1 AS

[ingedeut]

Hallo,

can someone tell me, if JBoss AS has a jBPM engine or not. If not how to install jBPM in JBoss-5.0.1GA AS?   I have developped two webservice and i want that these together communicate: e.g a client send a request to webservice1, that execute a webmethode 1 and then send the result to a webservice 2.

thanks in advance

younes

[swiderski.maciej]

Hi,

no, afaik JBoss AS does not have jBPM by default but it is very easy to deploy it. Just download jBPM distribution and follow user guide. There is install directory with nice ant tasks that help you to start with jBPM very quickly.

You could look into another JBoss project if you thinking about orchestrating only web services: http://www.jboss.org/riftsaw

HTH

Maciej

[kukeltje]

Or JBoss ESB

[ingedeut]

thanks Maciej ,

according your experience , waht is better: jBPM or RiftSaw? and what is the difference between them.

thanks in advance

[swiderski.maciej]

Unfortunately I am not the best person to compare these two, perhaps Ronald can give more valuable feedback on this.

In my opinion jBPM is more suited for transaction aware protocols to get most of it where Riftsaw is better choice for loosely coupled solution such as WS since it focuses on BPEL (WS-BPEL) implementation.

I would say that it is difficult to compare them, it really depends on your needs. But I think that jBPM is a bit more flexible since you can utilize WS in it as well.

Cheers,

Maciej

[kukeltje]

Correct, it's kind of service orchestration (aka microflows) vs process/business flows

Read http://www.theenterprisearchitect.eu/archive/2008/05/19/architecture-requirements-for-service-oriented-business-applications

in which there is a reference to an aticle by Tom Baeyens, initiator, project lead and one of the developers of jBPM

Ronald