topic Re: BPMN execution counterpart question in Alfresco Archive

BPMN execution counterpart question

activity_explor — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:33:32 GMT

I've been reading about BPMN and other business process modeling language and for what I could understand (please correct me if I'm wrong) the main goal of BPMN is the graphical representation. Furthermore, BPMN doesn't have a standard mapping for BPEL. My question is…if the model design isn't descr

Re: BPMN execution counterpart question

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:36:02 GMT

You probably just read about bpmn 1.x, read again, but then about bpmn2.0 🙂

Re: BPMN execution counterpart question

activity_explor — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:50:47 GMT

Very well…it seems that BPMN 2.0 has an execution implementation.

I now just have another question:

Is Activiti compatible with BPEL implementation? Because if I don't want to use the graphical representation and just want to use Activiti to execute workflows descriptions, I might prefer BPEL to BPMN 2.0 (even considering it already has its own execution counterpart)…can Activiti run BPEL then?

And thanks for the reply

Re: BPMN execution counterpart question

trademak — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:29:50 GMT

Hi,

No, Activiti is a pure BPMN 2.0 engine. If you are looking for BPEL support maybe Apache Ode is an option.
We consider BPMN 2.0 as the successor of BPEL.

Best regards,