they are roughly identical. jBPM is a WFMS (see http://www.jboss.com/products/jbpm/stateofworkflow) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4049009#4049009 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4049009