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Re: JBPM-Model Driven Architecture(MDA)
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/zino">Stephen McConnell</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/643249#643249">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>JBPM can be viewed as an specific BPMN 2.0 implementation.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Using an MDA approach one could imagine defining a platform-independent BPMN process in a tool like Sparx Enterprise Architect using an associated UML profile. That profile could constitute the Platform Independent Model (PIM). One could imagine a UML profile for JBPM which would define a Platform Specific Model (PSM).  Using model transformation tools we could potentially automate the transformation of the BPMN-PIM to the JBPM-PSM. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>An OMG technology adoption process underway “<em><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ab/2010-06-01">UML Profile for BPMN Processes</a></em>”. The latest submission from Axway, MEGA International, Model Driven Solutions, No Magic, and Sparx Systems is available <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.conradbock.org/omg/bmi/11-08-04.pdf">here</a>. The benefit of a standard UML Profile for BPMN is that BPMN models expressed in UML become transferable across tools, and as such you have a grounded specification against which you can write a PIM to PSM transformer.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So to answer the two question:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>a) “Does the JBPM solution implement any MDA/MDD approach?” – No, but it can be part of an MDA/MDD solution.</p><p>b) “Is the solution aligned to the OMG? – Yes, in that it implements a sub-set of the OMG BPMN 2.0 specification.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Things to look out for:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>a) a JBPM BPMN 2.0 Compliance Statement</p><p>b) a standard UML Profile for BPMN</p><p>c) a UML profile for JBPN</p><p>d) a specification of a standard UML/BPMN to UML/JBPN transformation mapping</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Cheers, Steve.</p></div>
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