[jbpm-dev] jBPM3 - state of the art

Dear Folks, I took a close look at Patterns-based Evaluation of Open Source BPM Systems http://www.workflowpatterns.com/documentation/documents/BPM-07-12.pdf This paper gives a good impression of where jBPM3 (jbpm-3.1.4) stands with respect to other Open Source BPM Systems and also some commercial ones. I digested the results in http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=BPMSupportedPatterns According to this research paper jBPM3 has * complete support for 18 patters - 12% * partial support for 8 patters - 0.5% * no support for 121 patters - 87.5% Every pattern is associated with a JIRA issue https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM/component/12311941 Using this information we can decide and record, which patterns the future JBossBPM product should support through the API. The current BPM CTS has a section on already supported patterns http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpm-site/bpm-testsuite/surefire-report.html The 1-Sep release of the API has (among other stuff) support for these basic patterns. http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternControlSequence http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternControlParallelSplit http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternControlSynchroniza... http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternControlExclusiveCh... http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternControlSimpleMerge http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternControlMultipleChoice http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternDataTaskData http://jbpm.dyndns.org/jbpmwiki/index.php?title=PatternDataCaseData Please note, that the above pages use the Eclipse BPMN editor for process modelling. An initial set of issues with the editor are recorded here https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM/component/12311942 For details of that API release, please have a look at https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM/fixforversion/12312520 Future releases of the API can then expand on the list of supported patterns. The scope of the JBossBPM supported patterns is still unclear and can hopefully be worked out with the help of Tom, Koen, Alejandro cheers -thomas -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thomas Diesler BPM Product Lead JBoss, a division of Red Hat xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx