Hi, i'm currenty evaluating jBPM for my company (40 000 people). jBPM overview tells us : "One piece of research is especially valuable - Workflow Patterns. Prof. Wil van der Aalst has created a catalogue of workflow patterns analogue with the design patterns by the 'Gang of Four'. These patterns are a organised set of concepts that are distilled from the study of a wide range of commercial workflow products. JBoss jBPM's internal model is created with these workflow patterns in mind. " That's fine !!! But which patterns are supported ??? Here is my checklist : Control flow pattern : Sequence Parralel Split Synchronization Exclusive choice Simple Merge Multi Choice Synchronizing Merge Multi-merge Discriminator N-out-of-M Join Arbitrary cycles Implicit Termination Multiple instances without synchronization Multiple instances with a Priori Design Time knowledge Multiple instances with a Priori Run Time knowledge Multiple instances without a Priori Run Time knowledge Deferred Choice Interleaved Parallel Routing Milestone Cancel Activity Cancel Case Resouce creation pattern : Direct Allocation Role-Based Allocation Deferred Allocation Authorisation Separation of Duties Case Handling Retain familiar Capablity-Based Allocation History-Based Allocation Organisational Allocation Automatic Execution Visibility patterns : Configurable Unallocated Work Item Visibility Configurable Allocated Work Item Visibility It would be fine if jBPM Overview displays a matrix with patterns and jBPM compliance. (Bonita does ...) Thanks a lot ! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4087779#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...