Is jBPM what I need?

Question

Hello all fellow forum users,

I have a question to you. We have some kind of complex project here which will needs to have a workflow process also where the user can put these kind of functionalities into the flow

• custom made java code which will process data for example but we need that data later in other processes either
• the need for split processes, which under I mean that I want to run some processes asynchronously next to each other
• Also synchronizing points
• decision points: based on some output of the previous process (just exit code OR maybe I would do some interface which we will implement to have some checks on complex data, etc) we need to have a functionality to decide where to continue
• maybe some other things i forgot here now

We will have a complex GUI for things and also we have to put the workflow designer into our application. My questions then:

1. Would jBPM support things I sketched up above?
2. If nearly all the things can be done with jBPM totally, can we somehow embed a designer into our application?
3. If 1. or 2. is not really the case, is there a way to programatically customize jBPM interface and so on? I did not really find tutorials how to use the jBPM programatically

Thank you for your answers!

Answer 1

Look at

• Bonita Open Solution (http://www.bonitasoft.com/)
• Activiti (http://www.activiti.org/)
• JBoss Drools (http://www.jboss.org/drools) and jBPM (http://www.jboss.org/jbpm)
• Process Maker (http://www.processmaker.com/)