Projects

jBPM

jBPM is a flexible Business Process Management (BPM) Suite. It makes the bridge between business analysts and developers. A business process allows you to model your business goals by describing the steps that need to be executed to achieve that goal and the order, using a flow chart. The core ... [More] of jBPM is a light-weight, extensible workflow engine written in pure Java that allows you to execute business processes using the latest BPMN 2.0 specification. It can run in any Java environment, embedded in your application or as a service. On top of the core engine, a lot of features and tools are offered to support business processes throughout their entire life cycle. jBPM supports adaptive and dynamic processes that require flexibility to model complex, real-life situations. [Less]

Activiti

Activiti is a Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow system targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application ... [More] , on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts. [Less]

OSWorkflow

OSWorkflow is fairly different from most other workflow systems available, both commercially and in the open source world. What makes OSWorkflow different is that it is extremely flexible. This can be hard to grasp at first, however. For example, OSWorkflow does not mandate a graphical tool for ... [More] developing workflows, and the recommended approach is to write the xml workflow descriptors 'by hand'. It is up to the application developer to provide this sort of integration, as well as any integration with existing code and databases. These may seem like problems to someone who is looking for a quick "plug-and-play" workflow solution, but we've found that such a solution never provides enough flexibility to properly fulfill all requirements in a full-blown application. [Less]

Hyper

The Hyper Framework is a framework for workflow based web applications. It adresses Web 3.0 applications - while the Web 1.0 featured static content, Web 2.0 has editable content, and Web 3.0 applications work just like conventional desktop apps. Hyper stands for "Hype reloaded" - ... [More] it's goal is to foster Web 3.0 technology's development. [Less]

NextGRID Adaptive workflow API

One of the main outputs of EU funded project NextGRID, the Adaptive API is a core library for the programmatic and declarative definition/execution/monitoring of workflows involving grid services.

KixFw

KIX - federated web-based collaboration framework for fully integrated data sharing. Objective: provide an integrated distributed enviroment for collaborative live document processing, which supports complex distributed document dependencies. Details: 1. extensible automation of forward feed ... [More] when live documents are updated. 2. extensible automation mechanisms for external document deployment. 3. document/version centered web fora for feed back and stake holder discussions. 4. fully scalable federated peer-to-peer implementation. Implementation: Modular perl5. Built on top of RDF triple database, with a mapped object model on top. Display and user control via class specific HTML templates. X3P protocol for comms. Status: fully functional prototype exists (in limited production use) [Less]

Scenario Framework

Scenario Business Process Management Framework.

OSBL

OSBL stands for Open Source Business Library. Its goal is to provide an open solution that efficiently supports work processes in a business environment. There are many Open Source components on the market, some of them of a very high quality, that provide solutions for individual aspects of this. ... [More] However, individually they fall short in achieving a solution; the decisive factor is their integration into a coherent whole. The purpose of the OSBL is to achieve this integration. It combines several well-known Open Source components in a way that allows for an easy and effective implementation of process-driven web applications. [Less]