5 Replies Latest reply on Jun 27, 2012 2:56 AM by mthies

    BPMN 2.0 conformance of jBPM5

    francesco.pietrobelli

      Hi,

      This is a simple question but i have not found a precise answer in jBPM5's documentation:

      Which kind of BPMN 2.0 conformace is jBPM 5 compliant with?


      Of course provides some tools to model processes, but I expect that jBPM5 is compliance with only Process Execution, is it correct?

       

      Francesco.

        • 1. Re: BPMN 2.0 conformance of jBPM5
          salaboy21

          Yes.. Process Modeling and Process Execution.

          • 2. Re: BPMN 2.0 conformance of jBPM5
            napolone1983

            i don't think that jBPM5 supports process Modeling,because it has not lots of graphy elements ,such as pool、lane、annotation......

            • 3. Re: BPMN 2.0 conformance of jBPM5
              francesco.pietrobelli

              jBPM provide more than one editor for modeling process:

               

              1. Eclipse editor that is very simple
              2. new eclipse editor  that is being created to support the full BPMN 2.0 specification. It is currently still under development but can already be used to create executable BPMN2 processes
              3. Oryx Web designer, another editor that support full BPMN 2.0 specification and it's integrate in guvnor.

               

              Sure i think that neither of editors is comfortable, but i think that is sufficent to claim process modeling confomance.

              • 4. Re: BPMN 2.0 conformance of jBPM5
                mpiraccini

                Indeed, it's not clear which editor is supposed to be used in the next (very near, as it seems) release...

                • 5. Re: BPMN 2.0 conformance of jBPM5
                  mthies

                  There are a lot of BPMN2 Editors on the market, even open source.

                  But there are only a few editors usable for jBPM since most of those editors store the BPMN2 proceses not in the standard XML defined by BPMN2 but in a propriatory format, some in an XMI format.

                   

                  Some Editors produce correct BPMN2 XML files, but jBPM is NOT fully BPMN2 compliant.

                   

                  The BPMN2 grammar does not define, that elements must be defined prior to their refence. jBPMN assumes that all elements which are reference by a BPMN2 element are already defined. That assumption is wrong and not BPMN2 compliant.

                   

                  We found that on the OSS market the most reliable and feature-rich editor is the editor Yaoqiang BPMN Editor: http://bpmn.sourceforge.net/