BPMN 2.0 overcomes these issues and defines one language for modeling a business process and execute it on a process engine, so now analysts and developers speak with the same vocabulary and share models without the need of conversion. Besides the fact that you needed two different languages to get from a process model to an executable process, some important constructs like human task or workflow support and cyclic control flow, where lacking. From a developer's point of view, to run these processes the industry standard was of course WS-BPEL 2.0. This language enables analysts to model their business. Finally, after you have seen the API in practice, we present the tools completing the Activiti stack briefly and give you some references to get more background information to check out.Īlready back in 2004 the first version of the Business Process Modeling Notation, BPMN 1.0, was finalized. Before we dive in the technical details of developing processes with the Activiti engine we will first give a little bit of background about BPMN 2.0 and Activiti. If you haven't been fortunate enough to see the Activiti in Action session of Tom Baeyens and Joram Barrez at Devoxx last Thursday, this article will get you up to speed with this first full-blown open source business process management suite. Well it’s not anymore meet the Apache licensed Activiti project. A little while ago BonitaSoft mentioned in an posted on DZone that 'BonitaSoft is the only true open source BPM option available in today's market'.
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