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Re: Did JBPM 5+ drop jPDL support? Only BPMN?
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/espinosa_cz">Jan Uhlir</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/649734#649734">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Well, this explanation on StackOverflow is even more explaininig:</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3545219/what-are-the-differences-between-jbpm-and-activiti-bpmn" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3545219/what-are-the-differences-between-jbpm-and-activiti-bpmn</a></p><p>Citation from <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/252155/amir-moghimi">Amir Moghimi</a> remark:</p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>...</p><p>jBPM is quite a famous name in the Java workflow engine domain and you may be surprised to hear that <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jboss.org/jbpm">jBPM 5</a> is NOT the 5th version of that infamous old jBPM engine! In fact, it is a re-branding of another workflow engine developed by JBoss which was previously called <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jboss.org/drools/drools-flow">Drools Flow</a>; and as the name suggests, it was part of the Drools Rules Engine project, used as an integrated workflow engine inside Drools. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Actually, as far as I know, what has happened is that <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03067067751334471585">Tom Baeyens</a>, who was the founder of jBPM, and <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/">Joram Barrez</a>, who was a jBPM core developer, have left JBoss/Red Hat (and hence, jBPM 4) and joined Alfresco to start a new workflow engine: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.activiti.org/">Activiti</a>. So, JBoss has decided to stop further developing and maintaining jBPM 4 code-base and started investing its resources on jBPM's in-house competitor, Drools Flow. But they have re-branded it as jBPM 5 to use the existing reputation and fame that jBPM has built up. Therefore, when we are talking about jBPM 5, we are in fact talking about Drools Flow.</p><p>....</p></blockquote><p>This actually explains it all.</p><p>As I evaluting jBPM5 more and more, I have only to agree.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>There are more disturbing news:</p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>Citing again from <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/252155/amir-moghimi">Amir Moghimi</a>):</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Considering this little history, it's no surprise to see that jBPM 5 is a completely different workflow engine compared to jBPM 4 with a totally different API and documentation, lacking almost all the maturity and community support existing on jBPM 4</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></blockquote><p>Cheers</p><p>Espinosa</p></div>
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