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Is JBPM 5.2.0 production quality ?
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/erikv">Erik Vande Velde</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/727206#727206">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>We are evaluating JBPM as workflow engine for a large project. I used it before, some years ago, and advised to use it again now.</p><p>Today, after experimenting a bit with JBPM 5.2.0, my gut feeling is that it might be wiser to go for a 3.x version.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>These are the reasons:</p><p>1) The demo screencasts are out of synch with the packaged software: </p><p>- in eclipse the demonstrator is using perspectives that just aren't installed in the download</p><p>- the guvnor screencast immediately goes to a view that's totally different from what I see</p><p>=> Because of these differences it's not immediately obvious (to me) what the demo is trying to show </p><p>2) There isn't any literature available yet about the software</p><p>3) It is distributed with a h2 database, which nobody will consider using for a serious project</p><p>=> No complete documentation available to migrate to mysql, see: <a class="" href="https://community.jboss.org/thread/164547?start=0&tstart=0">https://community.jboss.org/thread/164547?start=0&tstart=0</a></p><p>4) Because of the dependencies on jboss AS 7 (totally different from jboss 5) and drools/guvnor the learning curve is much steeper then before ...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I'm very interested on the opinion of the JBPM experts on this, and looking forward to their reactions to this post ...</p></div>
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