I recently added Activiti as a workflow engine for a client's matching software. Evaluation of jbpmnX worked out about the same as in your slides. Activiti was lightweight enough to plugin into an existing application without major surgery. Proved to be a major enhancement to the previous process built on Apache Chains.
Pretty nice presentation. In my opinion, you can do exactly the same without adding complexity with Drools Flow / jBPM5. The complexity in jBPM5 comes when you want solve more complex problems using a holistic approach including business processes, rules and complex event processing. Obviously this kind of solutions end up being more flexible and providing you more than a simple workflow engine. As I mention in one of my blog posts (http://salaboy.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/jbpm5-vs-activiti5-dumb-question/), for the situations that you describe here, both will fit perfectly.
I read your blog post. I got some ideas from it and the comment therein. I should have added a bibliography but I was too busy looking for pictures of crying unicorns.
Rick I have been trying to contact you via email, but I keep getting a failure notice. Please email me at nikkidear (at) yahoo (dot) com. I have an urgent matter of a personal nature to discuss with you. Thanks.
I appreciate for your post, and learn much from it. It’s really an excellent work. I really enjoy reading most of your articles and your thoughts about JBPM.
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I recently added Activiti as a workflow engine for a client's matching software. Evaluation of jbpmnX worked out about the same as in your slides. Activiti was lightweight enough to plugin into an existing application without major surgery. Proved to be a major enhancement to the previous process built on Apache Chains.
ReplyDeleteok... good. At least it is nice to know we came to the same conclusion independently.
ReplyDeletePretty nice presentation. In my opinion, you can do exactly the same without adding complexity with Drools Flow / jBPM5. The complexity in jBPM5 comes when you want solve more complex problems using a holistic approach including business processes, rules and complex event processing. Obviously this kind of solutions end up being more flexible and providing you more than a simple workflow engine. As I mention in one of my blog posts (http://salaboy.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/jbpm5-vs-activiti5-dumb-question/), for the situations that you describe here, both will fit perfectly.
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I read your blog post. I got some ideas from it and the comment therein. I should have added a bibliography but I was too busy looking for pictures of crying unicorns.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your blog post and your analysis.
Rick I have been trying to contact you via email, but I keep getting a failure notice. Please email me at nikkidear (at) yahoo (dot) com. I have an urgent matter of a personal nature to discuss with you. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate for your post, and learn much from it. It’s really an excellent work. I really enjoy reading most of your articles and your thoughts about JBPM.
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Nice post, thanks!
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