Rudolf Michael [http://community.jboss.org/people/ruds] created the discussion "jPDL vs. another process definition language" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/533322#533322 -------------------------------------------------------------- hello there, I am an old user in this forum and my inbox is flooded with jBPM messages from this community, but i have never used jPBM to show a proof of concept or even used it for a simple test case. The good news is that now i am working over a Service Management Designer which will be using jBPM to serve the Business Processes. One of the guys in our team has come up with a new language definition for the workflows after doing some research over jBPM and jPDL. my question to you guys is the following: Do we really need to create a new process definition language to suit some business requirements, can't jPDL encapsulate all the requirements needed for a workflow? Due to the below workflow, we had to integrate a new tag called Step which i do see it as a transition state while they see it as a sub process sometimes and  this is why the guy suggested having a new process definition language in order to have sub process within a process and being able to fetch it by id same way as we fetch a main process in jPBM. http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2383/Untitled.png http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2383/450-517... -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/533322#533322] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]