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Re: Questionnaire on JBPM
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/eaa">Esteban Aliverti</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/643590#643590">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;">1. Does jBPM provide any </span><strong style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5b5b5b;">role - based access control</strong><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;"> ? How ? In what way ?</span></p><p>Access control to what? Remember, jBPM5 is a framework with some tools around it. So I'm not sure if you are talking about the framework itself, Guvnor, the process editor, the eclipse plugin, the jbpm-console or what...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">7.</span><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Can an administrator <strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drill down</strong> from high level workflows through to the low level process or even rules? In what way ?</span></p><p>No.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">9.</span><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Can the deployment(say deployment of assets like flows , rules ) be automated via a continuous integration facility, e.g. via Ant, Maven, Hudson?</span></p><p>It depends in your solution. For example, if you are using Guvnor as the repository and jBPM-Console as the runtime environment, then you can deploy your processes using Guvnor. If you are using your own runtime and maintaining your assets in your own repository, you need to make this integration. You can read more about Drools' Knowledge Agent to see how part of this integration can be achieved.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">10.</span><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Does jBPM support <strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Service Component Architecture (SCA) </strong>and <strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">XML Process Definition Language (XPDL)</strong> ?</span></p><p>Not sure about SCA, but XPDL is not supported. The only process definition language supported by jBPM is BPMN2.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">11.</span><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Does jBPM support integration with <strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visio/MS Office</strong> in order to have a technology agnostic repository of workflows?</span></p><p>jBPM5 supports BPMN2 standard (with some extensions). I'm not saying it supports 100% BPMN2, but its goal is to run BPMN2 processes. If you can create BPMN2 processes that include the extensions needed by jBPM using other tools, then you can run those processes in jBPM5.  </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">12.Can </span><strong style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5b5b5b;">Rules</strong><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;"> be modified at </span><strong style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5b5b5b;">run-time</strong><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;"> ?</span></p><p>Yes. Read about Drools' Knowledge Agent.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">15. How does</span><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> the interaction between process, service and data tiers occur ? Which protocols are used ?</span></p><p>Read about WorkItems (aka Task Nodes) and WorkItemHandlers</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">17. </span><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Does the IDE provide seamless views into <strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DBMS , ERPs </strong>? If yes ,  how ?</span></p><p>No. Unles you are using Eclipse plugin along with some other plugins that allow you to do that <span> ;) </span> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">18. </span><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;">Does the IDE provide a </span><strong style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5b5b5b;">data-driven view</strong><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;"> in order to model process data focus on data processing?</span></p><p>No AFAIK.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;">19. </span><span style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 11pt; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Does the IDE provide <strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">visual development capabilities</strong>? Specially features beyond the simple process modeling.</span></p><p>You have 2 IDEs: Eclipse plugin and process-designer (integrated in Guvnor). Both IDEs are BPMN2 designers. Nothing more, nothing less <span> :) </span> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;">20. Can </span><strong style="background-color: #eef4f9; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5b5b5b;">I&AM</strong><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;"> systems be integrated? If yes, which?</span></p><p>Nothing out of the box. </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #eef4f9;"><br/></span></p></div>
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