[jboss-user] [jBPM] - Re: Did JBPM 5+ drop jPDL support? Only BPMN?

[Jan Uhlir]

Jan Uhlir [https://community.jboss.org/people/espinosa_cz] created the discussion

"Re: Did JBPM 5+ drop jPDL support? Only BPMN?"

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Well, this explanation on StackOverflow is even more explaininig:
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3545219/what-are-the-differences-between-jbpm-and-activiti-bpmn http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3545219/what-are-the-differences-between-jbpm-and-activiti-bpmn
Citation from  http://stackoverflow.com/users/252155/amir-moghimi Amir Moghimi remark:
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> jBPM is quite a famous name in the Java workflow engine domain and you may be surprised to hear that  http://www.jboss.org/jbpm jBPM 5 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  http://www.jboss.org/drools/drools-flow Drools Flow; and as the name suggests, it was part of the Drools Rules Engine project, used as an integrated workflow engine inside Drools. 
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> Actually, as far as I know, what has happened is that  http://www.blogger.com/profile/03067067751334471585 Tom Baeyens, who was the founder of jBPM, and  http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/ Joram Barrez, who was a jBPM core developer, have left JBoss/Red Hat (and hence, jBPM 4) and joined Alfresco to start a new workflow engine:  http://www.activiti.org/ Activiti. 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.
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This actually explains it all.
As I evaluting jBPM5 more and more, I have only to agree.

There are more disturbing news:
> Citing again from  http://stackoverflow.com/users/252155/amir-moghimi Amir Moghimi):
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> 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
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Cheers
Espinosa
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