BPMN execution counterpart question

[activity_explor]

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 described using Activity but some other external tool and I want to use Activity's Workflow engine to execute it, how can I describe it so Activity understands?

What I mean is, if I just want to input my workflow to be executed how should I do it with Activity? Should I use BPEL? Or does BPMN have an execution modeling implementation?

Thanks in advance

[ronald_van_kuij]

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

[activity_explor]

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

[trademak]

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,